Mass held on the battlefield by a Catholic priest for American soldiers from the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division. Oftentimes a flat Jeep hood served as a chaplain's altar.
Image courtesy of Photos Normandie - Patrick Peccatte & Michel Le Querrac - scanned images from the U.S. National Archives. Part of the Creative Commons.
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Jeep 4x4 helping evacuate wounded
Wounded taken aboard LST on D-Day.
Loading the wounded on a beached LST for transport to medical facilities in England. The wounded arrived from fighting inland on Jeep 4x4s.
Alexander P. Russo #75
Ink wash, June 1944
88-198-BW
Image courtesty of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Loading the wounded on a beached LST for transport to medical facilities in England. The wounded arrived from fighting inland on Jeep 4x4s.
Alexander P. Russo #75
Ink wash, June 1944
88-198-BW
Image courtesty of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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