U.S. troops charge down the ramp of a landing craft onto an 'enemy beach' during pre-invasion maneuvers somewhere along the English coast in 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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395.Photograph. 'File No: 231,229 June 6, 1944 Avenue to Conquest U. S. troops charge down the ramp of a landing craft onto an 'enemy beach' during pre-invasion maneuvers somewhere along the English coast.' Released 6 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:
England
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53.000
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-2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Military training--England
Soldiers--American--England
Landing craft--American--England
Coastlines--England