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A bit of weekend #EmbarkingtheDDayArmada goodness for you today, with a dip into the Western Task Force embarkation at Weymouth – specifically the US Army Rangers. This is quite a long one and I won’t do it all at once, but I hope it’ll be of interest. 
These pictures of the men embarking at Weymouth are well known, but the detail of exactly what they show is often lacking. It can be quite hard to identify specific Ranger units in the crowd, but it’s much easier to identify the landing craft and sort these images out.
A quick bit of background. Both the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions were assigned to Force O and Omaha beach, organised into 3 task forces. Their overall mission was to secure the guns at Point du Hoc and the radar station at Pointe de la Percee.
