Title from caption on object: “Armed Services Mark Fifth Anniversary of D-Day”
June 6, 1944
Artist
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.3 × 23.9 cm (7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.8 × 25.4 cm (8 3/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.341
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 81; lower right printed in negative: 71287 A.C.; on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied label: GA-WR-173; by unknown hand, top right in red ink: D-Day; upper right stamped in red ink: PIC RAN; upper right stamped in red ink: NOV 20 1983; upper right printed in purple ink inverted: ARMED SERVICES MARK FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY. [underlined] General of the Army / Dwight D. Eisenhower's favorite photograph of the Normandy Invasion is [circled] / chosen as a fitting three service pictute [sic] release commemorating the fifth /anniversary of the D-Day landings in France. Credited to the U.S. Coast / Guard, it is an impressive panorama of the joint operations in the initial / assault. / HOLDING FOR RELEASE IN CONJUNCTION WITH D-DAY ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION. [underlined] / PHOTO CREDIT: U. S. Coast Guard.; lower left stamped in red ink inverted: MAY 3 1949