File:NormandySupply.jpg
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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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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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| current | 11:16, 23 October 2018 | | 6,820 × 5,410 (16.57 MB) | Sergkarman | size |
| 11:07, 20 May 2007 |  | 2,807 × 2,153 (3.48 MB) | Yonidebest | {{Information |Description=Landing ships putting en:cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, en:June, en:1944. Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (i |
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