![Protecting the Beaches with Balloons: D-Day and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion | National Air and Space Museum Protecting the Beaches with Balloons: D-Day and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion | National Air and Space Museum](https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/callouts/NARA%20342-FH-3A17185-71287AC-CROP.jpg)
Protecting the Beaches with Balloons: D-Day and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion | National Air and Space Museum
![OMAHA BEACH D-Day +1 Normandy WW2 B&W image D Day Plus 1 LCT landing craft tank with barrage balloons afloat, logistics unloading supplies on Omaha beach for the break-out from Normandy. June OMAHA BEACH D-Day +1 Normandy WW2 B&W image D Day Plus 1 LCT landing craft tank with barrage balloons afloat, logistics unloading supplies on Omaha beach for the break-out from Normandy. June](https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/2bp9y66/omaha-beach-d-day-1-normandy-ww2-bw-image-d-day-plus-1-lct-landing-craft-tank-with-barrage-balloons-afloat-logistics-unloading-supplies-on-omaha-beach-for-the-break-out-from-normandy-june-1944-world-war-ii-second-world-war-2bp9y66.jpg)
OMAHA BEACH D-Day +1 Normandy WW2 B&W image D Day Plus 1 LCT landing craft tank with barrage balloons afloat, logistics unloading supplies on Omaha beach for the break-out from Normandy. June
![D-DAY Under barrage balloon protection Allied reinforcements head across the Channel for France on 7 June 1944 Stock Photo - Alamy D-DAY Under barrage balloon protection Allied reinforcements head across the Channel for France on 7 June 1944 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BDX0JJ/d-day-under-barrage-balloon-protection-allied-reinforcements-head-BDX0JJ.jpg)
D-DAY Under barrage balloon protection Allied reinforcements head across the Channel for France on 7 June 1944 Stock Photo - Alamy
How were barrage balloons a deterrent to strafing by low-flying German aircraft during the D-Day invasion? Wouldn't an airplane that couldn't avoid one easily cut it to pieces? - Quora
![US Army soldiers use a jeep to move a Very Low Altitude barrage balloon in southern England before D-Day, circa May 1944. : r/ColorizedHistory US Army soldiers use a jeep to move a Very Low Altitude barrage balloon in southern England before D-Day, circa May 1944. : r/ColorizedHistory](https://external-preview.redd.it/0-4UnamjSc0Ux9hB78pkxVaPfh--wtjIJ7Bt1jQT3NY.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=5ce479ad64474e478007c9c12419aec04e5340eb)