Just found this in a document on Scribd(whilst slowly recovering from a massive Xmas dinner)...
Document is" 9thAF D-Day Target Photos" a downloadable PDF...lots more interesting images in it .
This (untitled) I presume shows activity laying an airstrip near the beach-head.
There is a lot of other good stuff on Scribd if you can tolerate their abyssmal search mechanism
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I tried Scridb but when you try to download it asks me to pay a subscription.
The sequence that the above photo comes from also shows the laying of the treated fabric (can't recall the proper term) from rolls. The location could be anywhere but as a sequence it is a good set. The one above looks more like repair work or corrective work on a depression in the runway.
The guy who dropped the farthing bent down to pick it up and it hit him on the back of the head
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
A Scots chap dropped a 50 pence coin and caught it before it hit the ground. Talking of 50 pence's why are they shaped the way they are............ so they can be removed from a scotsman hand with a spanner
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