Engineers of 5th or 6th Engineer Special Brigade, Omaha Beach, June 6 1944.

Troops of one of the ESB's assigned to Omaha beach deal with some of the dead killed during the landings. The bodies look wet, suggesting they either washed ashore or were killed in the surf.

All of the troops are wearing jump boots, and the white semi circle of that identifies ESB troops can be seen on one helmet.

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 30 commanded by LT (jg) S W Brinker can be seen in the background. It was assigned to landing force O2 on D-Day, carryng elements in support of the 116th Infantry regiment assaulting Easy Green sector at H+120. However in one of the many mixups of the day it landed at Easy Red (Colleville sur Mer) due to be taken by the 18th Inf. Regt (which didn't arrive until 60 minutes later).

It landed its passengers (H& S, 149th ECB of 6th ESB and 467th AAA W Bn) but as it attempted to return to its LST "mothership" it recieved a shell in the engine room killing MoMM1c J E Anderson. At this point it was abandoned, shortly after drifting into a German mine putting it totally out of action as it settled onto the sea bed apparently just off shore.

Just beyond the LCT-30 is a LCI (L), possibly LCI (L) - 93. This vessel survived the morning but was hit while unloaded its second cargo of troops in the afternoon, suffering 1 dead and 4 injured. The abandoned LCI (L) was beached, and left until three days later when an inspection revealed several holes in the hull including one on the waterline caused by a mine. It was then abandoned for good, and was still there in 1945.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCI(L)-351_class_large_landing_craft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_craft_tank