Title from caption on object: “Army Troops Land on ‘Omaha’ Beach during the Initial Landings...”, June 6, 1944

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 × 24.1 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 20.2 × 25.6 cm (7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.335

Artists / Makers

Robert F. Sargent (artist) American, 1923 - 2012

U.S. Coast Guard (artist)

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Inscription

on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied sticker: GA-WR-177; top center: D-DAY; top right stamped in red ink: THE SEATTLE TIMES LIBRARY; center printed in black ink on applied sticker: NORMANDY INVASION, [underlined] JUNE 1944 / ARMY TROOPS LAND ON "OMAHA" BEACH DURING THE / INITIAL LANDINGS THERE, 6 JUNE 1944. THEY / WERE BROUGHT ASHORE BY A COAST GUARD MANNED LCVP. / 26-G-2343

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary