Part of a giant Allied task force moves across the English channel to hit the French coast on D-Day, 6 June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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476.Photograph. 'File Number: 231247 June 12, 1944 D-Day Task Force Barrage balloons floating overhead as protection against dive-bomber attacks, part of a giant Allied task force moves across the English channel to hit the French coast on D-Day.' 12 June 1944
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$120.00
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
Geography:
English Channel
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50.000
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-1.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American
Machine guns--American
Barrage balloons--American