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American assault troops, who have gained the comparative safety of a chalk cliff, after storming the beachhead, take a rost before starting into the interior of the continent

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph

Omaha Beach, 1944: American assault troops, who have gained the comparative safety of a…

Omaha Beach, 06/06/1944

SC 320899Field no. ETO-Hq-44-4778-14RG 111
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American assault troops, who have gained the comparative safety of a chalk cliff, after storming the beachhead, take a rost before starting into the interior of the continent. 6 June 1944

Date
06/06/1944
Place
Omaha Beach · exact position
Photographer
Taylor
SC number
320899
Field number
ETO-Hq-44-4778-14
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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