Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 1944: An American who has gained the comparative safety offered by the…

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ALLIED INVASION OF FRANCE ....... An American who has gained the comparative safety offered by the chalk cliff at his back, gazes out into the harbor where other landing craft, like those which landed him, move into the beachhead. Normandy, Omaha Beach, France, June 6, 1944.

Date

06/06/1944

Place

Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France · exact position

Photographer

Taylor

Units

16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

SC number

189936

Field number

ETO-HQ-44-4778-19

Source

U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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