Jeep Being Lowered into Landing Craft, 1945

This photo shows a U.S. Army jeep being lowered into a landing craft from a Coast Guard-manned assault transport, during the Normandy Invasion of June 1944.

The photo is sharp and detailed enough to read the jeep hood registration number (20447210S) and other markings. The LCM is from USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13), but the ship in the photo is not her.

Today in WW II: 24 May 1941 Battle of the Denmark Strait: German battleship Bismarck sinks British battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet, killing all but 3 of the 1418 crew. More ↓

24 May 1943 Dr. Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician, becomes the medical officer at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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