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Photo # 26-G-2517:  Landing ships put cargo ashore at low tide, during the first days of the invasion of Normandy, June 1944 Online Library of Selected Images --
Picture of the Month Gallery for 2004

This page features all images used in 2004 as the Online Library's "Picture of the Month".

For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery

For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery, 2003; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2002; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001; Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000; Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


December 2004 Picture of the Month:


USS Rich (DDE-820) digging into a wave while steadying up alongside USS Wasp (CVS-18) for replenishment, 28 February 1961.


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November 2004 Picture of the Month:
(and just in time for the first frost, too!)

USS Trippe covered with ice after arriving at Portland, Maine, from a patrol in the North Atlantic, February 1942.


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October 2004 Picture of the Month:


Four-inch gun crew in action aboard USS Stockton, 1918.


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September 2004 Picture of the Month:


Destroyer USS Hopewell fires a three-gun salvo, during exercises in December 1963.


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August 2004 Picture of the Month:


Oiler USS Severn comes alongside the commercial tanker Erna Elizabeth to take on fuel, 2 March 1972.


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July 2004 Picture of the Month:


"Jack-o-the Dust". Storekeepers in a provisions store room on board the transport Scranton, 1919.


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June 2004 Picture of the Month:


USS H-3 being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, California, 6 April 1917.


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May 2004 Picture of the Month:


Senior U.S. officers watch Normandy Invasion operations, from the bridge of the cruiser Augusta, 8 June 1944.


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April 2004 Picture of the Month:


LSTs unload at low tide during the Normandy Invasion, June 1944.


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March 2004 Picture of the Month:


Landing ships put cargo ashore at low tide, during the first days of the invasion of Normandy, June 1944.


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February 2004 Picture of the Month:


USS Nevada (BB-36) firing on positions ashore at "Utah" Beach, during the invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944.


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January 2004 Picture of the Month:


Troops wade ashore on Omaha beach on "D-Day" of the Normandy Invasion, 6 June 1944.


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For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see:

  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2003;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2002;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998


    For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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