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On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Climbing down the Jacobs ladder attempting not to fall in
LCI in foreground

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Another view of bomb wrecked Rouen from the spire of the cathedral. Only the shell of it remains, notice the blocks of houses that have been leveled by the bombs. It will take centuries to…

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

A close up view of the church. You wonder what keeps it together like that, it seems all churches have that way of staying together.

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

The cemetary at St Marie Eglise Normandy, taken over a year after the invasion, the French have planted grass and have cared for a large number of graves, it is the duty of every man woman and…

The back of this photo reads:

Normandy France
June 8, 1944
[Illegible]
CHUCK Morrison

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

"This is it" Omaha Beach, as I seen it thru the haze when we landed, this was my fourth trip out to the LST's and back, barrage ballons are all ready up. Study this picture close. I know I…

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Omaha Beach, or St Laurent su Mer, the barrage ballons are to keep the jerries from strafing us. The valley you see in the center of the picture is where we first stormed ashore, it was mined…

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

A good view of the beach from one point from the bluff, the tank in the foreground never got ashore. underwater obstacles can be seen all along the shore line.

On the back of this photograph, Chuck Morrison writes:

Omaha Beach again, very quiet just now, this was taken on top of a tank I was riding on. Up the hill side from the beach.