Us Official Photographs

HEAVY TRAFFIC ON THE INVASION BEACHES...This Is How the Beaches

HEAVY TRAFFIC ON THE INVASION BEACHES...This is how the beaches of Normandy looked on D-Day from one of the Ninth Air Force Marauder medium bombers which went out in close support of Allied ground troops. Bombing from lower-than-usual altitudes, the Marauders struck behind the enemy lines at gun positions, troop and tank concentrations and vital road and rail junctions. Bomber crews came back to base with description of "a channel filled with every kind of ship ever built" and "beaches as crowded as Fifth Avenue."