U. S. Army troops ride to their rendezvous with the invasion of France aboard a Navy LCI in 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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"File Number: 59,422. June 12, 1944. What They Been Waiting For - Many smiling, some stern, U. S. Army troops ride to their rendezvous with invasion aboard a Navy LCI (Landing Craft Infantry). Soon they were fighting their way inland from the French shore." June 1944

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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.
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Normandie
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Landing craft--American
Helmets
Soldiers--American--France
Troop movements--American--France
Smiling
Medical personnel--American--France