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English: Southern France Operation, August 1944. Senior Officers on the bridge of USS CATOCTIN (AGC-5), Operation Flagship. Taken while en route to the invasion area on "D-Minus-One", 14 August 1944. Present are (l-r): Brigadier General G.P. Saville, USAAF, Air Commander. Western Naval T.F. Major General A.M. Patch, USA, Army Commander, Western Naval Task Force. Vice Admiral H.K. Hewitt, Naval Commander, Western Naval Task Force. James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy. Rear Admiral A.G. Lemonnier, F.N., Chief of Staff of the French Navy.
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Source National Museum of the U.S. Navy
Author United States Navy

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Senior Officers on the bridge of USS CATOCTIN (AGC-5)

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14 August 1944

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