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Invasion of Normandy, June 1944 |
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142k | Washing down LCT(6)-638 while preparing to load for the Invasion of Normandy, date unknown and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
113k | Washing down LCT(6)-638 while preparing to load for the Invasion of Normandy, date and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
179k | LCT(6)-638 loading ammunition for the Invasion of Normandy, date and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
116k | Scene on "Omaha" Beach soon after the "D-Day" landings, showing stranded landing craft, piles of supplies, wounded soldiers awaiting evacuation and dead soldiers awaiting burial .
LCT(5)-199 is offshore in left center.
LCT(A)(5)-2421,
LCT(6)-555 and
LCT(6)-638 are on the beach in the center (listed from the middle distance to further away).
An LCVP from USS Thurston (AP-77) is in the left foreground.
The photograph was received by the Naval Photo Science Laboratory, 14 June 1944, but was probably taken on or about 6 June. US National Archives photo # 80-G-252557, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
181k | LCT(6)-638 on the beach at Normandy, date unknown. Photo was taken from LCT(6)-647. | Jack N, Wolslegel | ||
185k | LCT(6)-638 on the beach at Normandy while loading German Prisoner of War for transportation to England for internment, date unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
115k | Laundry day aboard LCT(6)-638 date and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
167k | LCTs in convoy. Photo taken from LCT(6)-638, date and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
235k | LCT(6)-638 partial crew photo; Steck, Melvin Downing, ENS Graham (Skipper), ENS Swartz, Butkiewicz, date and location unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
39k | LCT(6)-647 unloading Army staff cars in Normandy, date unknown. Note LCT(6)-638 in background. | Jack N, Wolslegel | ||
135k | LCT(6)-638 being re-floated after sinking during storm at Normandy. Also in the photo is LCT(5)-147. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
51k | A stern view of LCT(6)-638 probably after being hauled out of the water at Dartmouth, date unknown.. | Thomas J. Fowler for Francis A. LaPointe, signalman LCT(6)-638 | ||
140k | Steck and Miller repairing the bow door of LCT(6)-638 while in drydock at Dartmouth, date unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
117k | LCT(6)-638 after coming out of drydock at Dartmouth, date unknown. | Jeff Card for his grandfather Melvin Downing MoMM 3c LCT(6)-638 | ||
84k | Amphibious shipping beached on the Hungnam waterfront during the evacuation in December 1950. Ships present are (from left to right): Amphibious shipping beached on the Hungnam waterfront during the evacuation in December 1950. Ships present are (from left to right): LSU-520; LSU-638; LSU-742, two unidentified LSUs, LSU-783; and two Japanese-manned LSTs. Note the trucks and jeeps in the foreground. US National Archives photo # 80-G-425954, a US Navy photo now in the collects of the US National Archives |
US Naval Historical Center | ||
120k | LSU-638 entering the well-deck of USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) circa 1950-1952, in Korea or Japan. Photo by Warren G. Gilbert USN Ret. USS Gunston Hall |
Susan Neese | ||
133k | LSU-638 moored pierside, date and location unknown. Photo by Warren G. Gilbert USN Ret.USS Gunston Hall |
Susan Neese | ||
58k | LSU-638 beached at the ramp on Grande Island, Naval Station Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, , circa 1954-56. | Harvey Kimbro LCU-638 | ||
74k | LSU-638 looking forward into the tank deck from the conning tower. LSU-638, LSU-1159 and an unidentified YTL are all moored at the "inner basin" Naval Station Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, circa 1954-56. | Harvey Kimbro LCU-638 |
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