Assignment #5 Part I

Troops in a landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s300000/s320901c.htm







Army troops wade ashore on "Omaha" Beach during the "D-Day" landings, 6 June 1944.
They were brought to the beach by a Coast Guard manned LCVP.

Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm





Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944.

Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm





Coast Guard manned USS LST-21 unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a "Rhino" barge during the early hours of the invasion, 6 June 1944.

Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm

USS LST-325 (left) and USS LST-388 unloading while stranded at low tide during resupply operations, 12 June 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-eur/normandy/normandy.htm