Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection as a German plane strafes the Normandy shore in June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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Members of a U.S. Navy beach battalion dive for protection on Normandy shore in June 1944. "File Number 252841. June 20, 1944. Navy Men "Hit the Dirt" as Nazi [German] Plane Strafes Normandy Beach. "Moving'on the double" these members of a U. S. Navy Beach Battalion dive for the protection offered by a ditch as a Nazi plane swoops down to strafe the shore somewhere in Normandy." 17 June 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Normandie
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