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Photograph of Death and Destruction on Omaha Beach


Scene on "Omaha" Beach on the afternoon of "D-Day", 6 June 1944, showing casualties on the beach, a bogged-down "Sherman" tank, several wrecked trucks and German anti-landing obstructions. A LST is beached in the left distance and invasion shipping is off shore. (June 6, 1944).

 

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Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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