This photo shows women working for the Red Cross arriving at Normandy beach in 1944 to assist injured troops.
It is a photo of women working for the Red Cross arriving in Southern France in 1945 to “keep high the spirits” of American soldiers.
An image claiming to show female Red Cross workers arriving to support troops during the Normandy landings has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and across social media.
However, according to the American Red Cross, the photo was taken on 15 January 1945 in the French Riviera, seven months after the Normandy landings on D-Day. They confirm the passengers are Red Cross staff, and that that they were there to “carry out their duties and keep high the spirits of Yank fighting men.”
The image can also be found on Getty, titled “Ladies Day.”
The photo and the claim that it’s from Normandy has regularly been going viral for a number of years.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false as the image does not show anything to do with the Normandy invasion.
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