[Photograph 2012.201.B0321.0255]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "About that time all the battlewagons opened up, and we knew D-Day was on," thus Sgt. Allen Jones of Purcell recalled the grim, grey morning off the bitter coast of Normandy in France, when 20 years ago he and thousands of American, French, British and other allied troops went in on the first wave of the amphibious assault that signaled the beginning of the end of Hitler's Third Reich."
Date:
June 5, 1964
Creator:
Tapscott, George
Item Type:
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Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society