Normandy Campaign, Phase 1 Photographs

442 items in this album on 23 pages.


US Generals Eisenhower and Bradley speaking with a member of the French resistance, Normandy, France, summer 1944	US Navy personnel at Normandie, France, 1944	USS LCT-535 disembarking a vehicle, Normandie, France, 1944	USS LCT-535 unloading vehicles onto a Normandie beach, France, 1944

USS LCT-587 at Normandie, France, 1944	USS LCT-705 off Normandie, France, 1944	WAAF Leading Aircraftwoman Pearl Bradburn writing out medical transport tags for a wounded soldier aboard a Dakota aircraft at B-2 Bazenville Advanced Landing Ground, Normandy, Jun-Aug 1944	View looking west on Normandy's Omaha Beach during resupply operations, 1 Jul 1944

2 Jul 1944 photo of the wreckage left on Sword Beach following the D-Day landings in Normandy, France; in this case, a P-47 Thunderbolt that was shot down 10 Jun 1944 on a mission to Cherbourg, France. Photo 1 of 2.	2 Jul 1944 photo of the wreckage left on Sword Beach following the D-Day landings in Normandy, France; in this case, a P-47 Thunderbolt that was shot down 10 Jun 1944 on a mission to Cherbourg, France. Photo 2 of 2.	Two British minesweepers detonated German mines in Cherbourg's Grande Rade, just before the entry of supply ships, 2 Jul 1944; note Fort l'Ouest in the background	View of Cherbourg harbor's Slipway Number One, looking toward Basin Napoleon III, with the Passe Nord in the background, 4 Jul 1944; note damage from German demolition in the distance

General Bernard Montgomery relaxing with his traveling companions, a fox terrier puppy named “Hitler” and a spaniel puppy named “Rommel,” at his headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 6 Jul 1944.	Bernard Montgomery bestowing the British Distinguished Service Order on Maxwell Taylor of the American 101st Airborne Division, Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Jul 1944.	General Bernard Montgomery pins the British Military Medal on the uniform on T/Sgt Philip Streczyk of the US First Division for extraordinary gallantry on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on D-Day. Award presented Jul 7 1944.	Generals George Patton, Omar Bradley, and Bernard Montgomery meeting at Montgomery’s headquarters at Blay, Normandy, France, 7 Jul 1944. Patton and Montgomery seem to be enjoying a tense laugh.

View of the market at the Place du Chateau, Cherbourg, 7 Jul 1944	British Sherman tanks near Lebisey Wood for the assault on Caen, France, 8 Jul 1944	Fort du Roule located at Cherbourg's inner harbor showing damage from Allied bombardment, 8 Jul 1944	View of the railway ferry terminal in the harbor of Cherbourg, France, 8 Jul 1944, showing German gun emplacements and damage from demolitions and bombs