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PLASMA ON THE BEACH - Just released, this photograph made in the early days of the Normandy invasion, shows how promptly medical treatment was administered on the beach

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Omaha Beach, France, 1944: Just released, this photograph made in the early days of the Normandy…

Omaha Beach, France, 06/07/1944

SC 192575RG 111
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PLASMA ON THE BEACH - Just released, this photograph made in the early days of the Normandy invasion, shows how promptly medical treatment was administered on the beach. U. S. Army medical soldiers, just a few feet from the surf, are here administering a plasma transfusion to a survivor of a landing craft sunk somewhere off the coast of northern France. Note feet of second prostrate man on right. Fifth Engineer Special Brigade. France, June 1944

Date
06/07/1944
Place
Omaha Beach, France · approximate position
SC number
192575
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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