10-0023 Grand Picture of the Day - on the way to Normandy

[Mark in Rochester]

Invasion Of Normandy
American soldiers playing poker, using the 200 francs each was given for their trip to France, as they sit atop Army supply truck, one of many waiting on dock to be loaded onto ships for transport to their D-Day objective, the beaches of Normandy.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: June 06, 1944
Photographer: David E. Scherman




Invasion Of Normandy
Pair of American servicemen huddle under a blanket to get while crossing the English Channel atop an Army supply truck, one of many loaded on LST 317 en route to a landing on the beaches of Normandy following the Allied D-Day invasion.
Location: France
Date taken: June 05, 1944
Photographer: David E. Scherman





LST 317 - During World War II, LST-317 was assigned to the European theater and participated in the Sicilian occupation (July 1943), Salerno landings (September 1943), and Invasion of Normandy (June 1944).

Upon her return to the United States, she was decommissioned on 18 May 1945 for conversion to landing craft repair ship USS Conus (ARL-44) at the New York Navy Yard. The conversion was canceled 12 September 1945 and the ship reverted to LST-317; she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 March 1946. On 22 January 1947 the tank landing ship was sold to A. G. Schoonmaker. Her final fate is unknown.

LST-317 earned three battle stars for World War II service.

LST-317 beached, date and place unknown.

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