An Allied task force moves toward the coast of Normandy, France on 7 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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480.Photograph. 'File Number: 231248 June 12, 1944 The Objective Like a low-hanging bank of fog, the French coast can be seen in this Official U. S. Navy Photograph taken as a huge Allied task force moves in against the foe on D-Day plus one.' 12 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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English Channel
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50.000
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-1.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--France
Barrage balloons--American