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Seabees at Normandy

by U.S. Navy Seabee Museum

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Whale highway at Normandy
Mulberry at Normandy
Rhino Ferry
Seabees use Rhino Ferries to offload equipment from the LSTs.
Invasion vehicles getting ready to debark from the Seabee Rhino ferry
Whale Causeways at Normandy
Troops coming ashore from their landing craft over the pontoon causeways.
The 111th Naval Construction Battalion landing at Omaha Beach before the Mulberry was installed.
The Seabees of the 111th Naval Construction Battalion give thanks on D-Day plus 12.
View from a rhino ferry, operated by the 81st Naval Construction Battalion on D-Day, as it approaches the shoreline at Utah Beach.
The 81st Naval Construction Battalion marrying up a rhino ferry to an LST during the invasion of Normandy.
A rhino ferry married to an LST during the Normandy invasion.
Gooseberry at Normandy
Phoenixes at Normandy
The Seabees with the 111th Naval Construction Battalion unload heavy equipment from a Rhino ferry.
The 111th Naval Construction Battalion sets up the first Seabee camp on Normandy Beach,
Seabees use Rhino Ferries to shuttle equipment across the English Channel for the assault on D-Day.
Seabees smooth sand to join with the causeways for offloading heavy equipment.
LST dock at the causeway built by the 1006th Naval Construction Detachment.
Civil Engineer Corps officers with the 111th Naval Construction Battalion walking on one of the main causeway highways at Utah Beach.
Seabees with the 111th Naval Construction Battalion load aboard a Rhino Ferry from an LST.
Seabees work on a floating repair shop they created on the causeways off the coast of Utah Beach.
Seabees offload heavy equipment onto the floating harbors.
LSTs "dried out" at low tide on Utah Beach, Normandy.