U.S. soldiers relax for a few minutes outside a French caf in Normandy, France 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 252684 June 20, 1944 Brief 'Time-Out' on invasion front. Exhausted from their rapid advance inland from the Normandy beachhead, U. S. soldiers relax for a few minutes outside a French caf." Notice soldiers' shoulder patches have been censored. Normandy, France. 20 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.
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Normandie
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--France
Bayonets--France
People--France
Children--France
Cafes--France