WWII D-Day: Omaha Beach a Logistics Nightmare, mid-June 1944
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This photo was taken by a U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer at Omaha Beach after the landings on D-Day, 6 June 1944. It shows a panoramic view of Omaha Beach in mid-June, after the beachhead has been secured. The fighting has moved inland, and now the struggle on the beach is to resupply and establish workable arrangements for the front line troops and all those pouring in to back them up.
In this photo, taken at low tide, you can clearly see a number of heavily loaded LSTs in position to unload, trucks, jeeps and other equipment on the beach, men moving about, and barrage balloons above. The Coast Guard-manned LST-262 is the third beached LST from the right, one of ten Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the Normandy invasion.
