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Photo shows American equipment as far as the eye can see - Those trucks, dukws, bulldozers, and jeeps aid troops in establishing the beachhead won in the initial assault

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Orchard Beach, France, 1944: Photo shows American equipment as far as the eye can see - Those…

Orchard Beach, France, 06/06/1944

SC 192599Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4886RG 111
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Photo shows American equipment as far as the eye can see - Those trucks, dukws, bulldozers, and jeeps aid troops in establishing the beachhead won in the initial assault. Telephone poles and lines, strung by Signal Corps men, establish communications between the forward moving troops and the beachhead. N. France, June 6, 1944.

Date
06/06/1944
Place
Orchard Beach, France · exact position
Photographer
Todd
SC number
192599
Field number
ETO-HQ-44-4886
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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