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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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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.
Generals in a Jeep M38
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur,
Commander in Chief, Far East Command
Makes a Jeep Tour of Inchon port facilities on 16 September 1950, soon after the city was captured by U.S. forces.
Seated immediately behind him are Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Division, (left center) and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, (at right).
Photo #: 80-G-421945. Uploaded to Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Commander in Chief, Far East Command
Makes a Jeep Tour of Inchon port facilities on 16 September 1950, soon after the city was captured by U.S. forces.
Seated immediately behind him are Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Division, (left center) and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, (at right).
Photo #: 80-G-421945. Uploaded to Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Jeep 4x4 carrying casualties - Normandy 1944
Jeep 4x4 at Normandy Invasion, 1944
A Jeep 4x4 brings casualties to a LST for evacuation from the Normandy beachhead, 13 June 1944.
Note the bulldozer just beyond the Jeep 4x4, and the line of German prisoners of war marching by in the background.
This appears to be "Utah" Beach.
Photo #: 80-G-252779. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
A Jeep 4x4 brings casualties to a LST for evacuation from the Normandy beachhead, 13 June 1944.
Note the bulldozer just beyond the Jeep 4x4, and the line of German prisoners of war marching by in the background.
This appears to be "Utah" Beach.
Photo #: 80-G-252779. Uploaded on Flickr by Lee Ekstrom.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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