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A photograph showing a group of Red Cross nurses disembarking onto a beach from a military ship is frequently shared online, along with the claim that it pictures the woman arriving in Normandy during (or shortly after) after the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France by the Allies in June 1944. While the image seen here is indeed a vintage photograph of Red Cross nurses taken during World War II, the specific time and place (Normandy in 1944) commonly assigned to it are wrong. According to Corbis Images, this photograph was snapped on 15 January 1945 (seven months after D-Day) and was taken in the French Riviera area of southern France, not the Normandy region of northern France: Incorrect details of this photograph aside, women nonetheless did play an important role in the D-Day invasion. In fact, according U.S. Army Center of Military History, the first nurses arrived at Normandy just four days after the initial invasion date of 6 June 1944:
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