Posts tagged: Normandy
The American landing boat moves to the beach of Omaha, one of the places the landing in Normandy.
German POWs working on the American Cemetery in Normandy, where are buried the soldiers killed during the Normandy landings, which began June 6, 1944.
Girl soldiers the U.S. Army (Women’s Army Corps) helps his friend to wash hair. Standing ordinary Claire Dickman from San Francisco, she helps Hefor Selma from New York. Campground somewhere in Normandy, France.
Two U.S. soldiers with anti-aircraft guns guarding M2HB Sunday mass in the French countryside Couvains (Department of Manche, Lower Normandy, liberated 116-m regiment the 29 th U.S. Infantry Division July 13, 1944 (in the days when the picture was taken in the area were still fighting). Mass is held in the courtyard of the farm - the village church destroyed by the retreating Germans.
For a machine gun - Private First Class Angelo Brichellio from Staten Island, New York.
Machine-gun Browning M2HB (Heavy Barrel) - Version 12.7-mm machine gun Browning M2, which uses air cooling and it is therefore, a more heavy barrel. Machine gun mounted on a compound machine - standard infantry machine-M3 tripod with the device recovery and stabilization.
American field hospital. A local resident in his stretcher a wounded child.
The American landing force moving toward the coast of Normandy. June 6, 1944.
Nurse of the American field hospital in France. Normandy, 1944.
Captured German soldiers by Americans in the town of Point du Oak (Pointe du Hoc), approximately 6.5 km to the west coast of Omaha. Some prisoners were dressed in civilian clothes.
Locals cut up dead horse for food. Normandy, France, 1944.
Canadian soldiers in 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy.
