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English: Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach. "A panoramic view of the Omaha beachhead after it was secured, sometime around mid-June 1944, at low tide". The Coast Guard-manned LST-262 is the third beached LST from the right, one of 10 Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the invasion of Normandy, France, in June, 1944. Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach. The LST-262 was one of 10 Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the invasion of Normandy, France.
Date "sometime around mid-June 1944"
Source Photograph 26-G-2517 from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives, imaged hosted by Naval History and Heritage Command.
Author Coast Guard
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  • (cleaned-up version)
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  • probably on June 9, 1944
    probably on June 9, 1944
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This image or file is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105, USCG main privacy policy and specific privacy policy for its imagery server).

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  • 2006-10-19 17:39 Ydorb 2807×2153×8 (3649926 bytes) From http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/LST262_Normandy_300.jpg
  • 2004-03-29 16:12 Hephaestos 739×594×8 (39183 bytes) Supplying Normandy coast

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