Sunday Mass on Omaha Beach
Original Caption: "Combat engineers kneel in prayer at a Sunday mass conducted by Chaplain (1st Lt.) Paul J. McGovern, Boston, Mass., former pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Danvers, Mass. The first American cemetery to be constructed in France is in the center background." Original Field Number: ETO-HQ-44-5908. Photographer: Weintraub
- Date
- 1944-06-23
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,933 × 3,235 pixels
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Reason: public domain: US.
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