Photos Taken in Basse-Normandie | World War II Database

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USS Texas, in the Bombardment Force Flagship role, firing at German targets, Omaha Beach, Normandie, France, 6-8 Jun 1944	DUKW amphibious trucks of the 470th Amphibious Truck Company, First Engineer Brigade, bringing supplies to Utah Beach from ships anchored off shore, Normandy, 8 Jun 1944; note German gun in foreground	Men of 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division, resting at the beach at Omaha Beach near Colville-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 8 Jun 1944	Paratrooper of US 101st Airborne Division holding a Nazi German flag captured in a village near Utah Beach, Saint-Marcouf, France, 8 Jun 1944

American men and equipment being landed near Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 9 Jun 1944	Vehicles and British troops on board a LST off Utah Beach, Normandy, 9 Jun 1944	Four US Army soldiers watching Allied bombardment, Saint-Lô, France, Jun 1944	German beach defense turret at Omaha Beach, Basse-Normandie, France, mid-Jun 1944

Tracer fire from Allied warships lighting up the sky off Ouistreham, France, 10 Jun 1944; photo taken from HMS Mauritius, seen in foreground	Traplin, Heldon, and Kennedy of the Canadian Army manning a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy, France, mid-Jun 1944	'Rhino' ferry vessel off Normandie, France, Jun 1944	British flail tank on the Normandy beach, France, Jun 1944

British naval craft off Normandy, France, Jun 1944	Captured German remote-controlled explosive carriers, Normandy, France, Jun 1944	Courseulles-sur-Mer in ruins, France, Jun 1944	Damaged German defensive fortification at Bernières-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944

Damaged German defensive fortification at Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944	Sherman DD tank at Normandy, France, Jun 1944	The 'Gooseberry' line of the 'Mulberry' artificial harbor off Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, Jun 1944	Two disabled M4 Sherman tanks and a litter Jeep near the heavily damaged Église Saint-Ouen in Rots, France (near Caen), Jun 11, 1944.