80-foot Elco patrol boat PT-546 of Motor Patrol Boat Squadron 28 at Barahun Island, Green Islands, 31 May 1944 with extensive bow damage after a nighttime collision with PT-550 off New Ireland.Ammunition magazine under construction, Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States, 31 May 1944Members of the British Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at an RAF glider station repair and pack colored parachutes for use by airborne troops during the Normandy invasion, 31 May 1944.Rommel observing the Atlantic Wall near Ouistreham, Normandy, France, late May 1944
80-foot Elco patrol boat PT-546 of Motor Patrol Boat Squadron 28 at Barahun Island, Green Islands, 31 May 1944 with extensive bow damage after a nighttime collision with PT-550 off New Ireland.Ammunition magazine under construction, Naval Ammunition Depot Earle, Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States, 31 May 1944Members of the British Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at an RAF glider station repair and pack colored parachutes for use by airborne troops during the Normandy invasion, 31 May 1944.Rommel observing the Atlantic Wall near Ouistreham, Normandy, France, late May 1944
WAAF personnel repairing and packing parachutes at an RAF glider station, Britain, 31 May 1944
WAAF personnel repairing and packing parachutes at an RAF glider station, Britain, 31 May 1944


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