SC 190255 - French civilians go on about their everyday tasks despite the fierce battles raging around them. These women are overtaken on the road by a passing Ranger unit on their way to a new objective.
Near Omaha Beach, France. 7 June, 1944.
- Date
- 1944
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,945 × 3,230 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Army).
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