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Dodge WC 54 Ambulance WW2 - Historische Fotos Teil 2 von 4 |
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| Advertising for Dodge Ambulance, 1942 |
| The (painted) truck is the earlier 1941 1/2 ton wc 9 flat back. |
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| This Rhino ferry unloads its cargo of Army ambulances on a beach in France, |
| to provide equipment for more front line hospitals. |
| July 1, 1944 |
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| TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES HEADED FOR FRANCE - Rolling stock for invasion, including |
| trucks, jeeps and ambulances, ride the top tank deck of a Coast Guard LST (landing ship, tanks) |
| on the D-Day invasion sweep across the English Channel to the Norman coast beachhead. |
| The heavy mechanized equipment followed close in the wake of the landing barges from which |
| troops cleared the beaches. |
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| COAST GUARD LCI GOES DOWN IN THE CHANNEL - A casualty of the heavy Nazi fire against
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| the D-Day invasion fleet, a Coast Guard LCI, loaded with troops, lists heavily to port
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| before sinking in the English Channel. She had time, however, to pull alongside the
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| Coast Guard assault transport in the distance, and evacuate her troops and wounded before
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| capsizing and going down. The infantry landing craft was fatally hit on a run to the
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| French beach, this picture shown soldiers up on the high rail as the LCI limped to the transport. |
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| THE INVASION STREAM FLOODS THE BEACHES OF FRANCE - Bulging with reinforcements for |
| the liberation waves that struck the French beaches and breached the vaunted Atlantic wall, |
| Coast Guard landing barges ferry the flood of fighting men who are spreading out over Normandy. |
| They are transferred from a Coast Guard assault transport in the English Channel. |
| In the distance, is a Rhino loaded with ambulance easing toward the beach. |
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| 83-FOOTERS RESCUE HUNDREDS IN CHANNEL - Boldly exposing their thin wooden hulls to Nazi |
| shellfire, Coast Guard 83-footers rescued hundreds of Allied fighting men from English |
| channel waters in the D-Day invasion. One of these intrepid "sea mosquitoes" picked up 126 |
| survivors; the flotilla is credited with 1473. Already famed as Atlantic sub busters in |
| earlier stages of the war, Coast Guard 83-footers have been acclaimed by press and radio |
| for their life saving and assistance work in the invasion. This exceptional picture, made |
| by a Coast Guard Combat Photographer, shows an 83-footer maneuvering in the foreground |
| and a Coast Guard assault transport standing out among swarms of invasion craft in the distance. |
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| While walking guard on Omaha Beach, two GI's pass a house which took a terrific shelling |
| from Allied guns. Its is a typical example of the wreckage which strews the beach. |
| France - June 21, 1944 |
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| These pictures were taken at the National Archives and are offered Royalty Free by the World War II |
| Picture section of Historylink101.com. More Pictures can be found at the World War II Picture Page. |
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