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Frank Scherschel1944-06-21

LIFE Photo Collection

LIFE Photo Collection
New York City, United States

Line of American trucks awaiting offshore cargo while other servicemen attend to large ship, beached along w. many others, stranded on Omaha Beach following a violent storm that wrecked temporary "mulberry" port facilities erected after the D-Day invasion of Europe. (negatively deliberately scratched at the time it was taken for military censorship reasons)

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  • Date: 1944-06-21
  • Location: Normandy, France
  • Physical Dimensions: B/W NEGATIVE
  • Subject Keywords: Beachhead, Landing Operations, Ships, Wars, France, Wwii, American, Normandy, Naval Operations, Salvage, 1940s
  • Publisher: TimeLife
  • Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
  • Provider: LIFE
  • Photographer: Frank Scherschel
  • Original ID: TimeLife_image_1223222
  • Credits: LIFE
  • Copyright: © Time Inc.
LIFE Photo Collection

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