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D-DAY in Pictures. Europe at time of the D-Day invasion.

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1 D-DAY in Pictures

2 Europe at time of the D-Day invasion

3 D-Day invasion to cross English Channel to Normandy, France

4 Army and Navy ships at Southampton docks preparing for D-Day

5 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Southampton docks shortly before D-Day

6 Gen. Eisenhower talking to paratroopers before loading a plane for take-off

7 Officers give encouragement to paratroopers before departure

8 Paratrooper boards plane before attack

9 Paratroopers prepare to jump

10 Paratroopers stream out of a plane

11 Paratroopers fill the sky behind German lines on D-Day

12 Loading a glider for the attack

13 Gliders pulled over English Channel pass naval assault force

14 Glider attack behind German lines on D-Day

15 Inside a glider

16 Glider that crashed in D-Day invasion

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19 Five beaches in Normandy were invaded, with troops from the U.S., Great Britain and Canada

20 Ships approach Normandy

21 Soldiers load into landing craft before heading toward shore

22 USS Bayfield lowers landing crafts for the assault of Utah Beach

23 Allied landing craft nears Normandy beach

24 Landing crafts approaching the beach

25 Naval ships fire on German defenses during the invasion

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27 Troops in landing craft approach Omaha Beach

28 Soldiers prepare to depart landing craft

29 U.S. soldiers wade toward the beach with heavily defended cliffs in the background

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31 Soldiers hide behind steel hedgehogs along beach intended to slow Allied landing craft

32 Soldiers race ashore despite heavy German machine gun fire

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34 Soldiers rush up beach under heavy fire

35 Troops move over a Utah Beach seawall during the attack

36 Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc scale a cliff to reach German defenses

37 Senior officers on off-shore ship watch invasion develop

38 Omaha Beach from the air

39 German defenders surrender near Omaha Beach

40 At Utah Beach, members of an American landing party help others whose landing craft was sunk by the Germans

41 Medics help an injured American soldier

42 Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to this fallen soldier

43 U.S. assault troops injured while storming Omaha Beach, wait for evacuation to a field hospital

44 After the victory soldiers rest in a German pillbox

45 Prisoner of war enclosure on Utah Beach

46 Omaha Beach by the afternoon

47 Army Rangers resting atop Pointe du Hoc after attack

48 Officer inspects a German pillbox at Pointe du Hoc on D-Day

49 Landing craft used to evacuate casualties from beaches on D-Day

50 “Rhino” ferry and tugboat approach shore on D-Day

51 Normandy beach two days after invasion

52 “Mulberry Harbor” as the temporary docks following D-Day were known as

53 Mulberry Harbor from above

54 Trucks pour ashore on temporary docks

55 Tanks and trucks make way to France shortly after D-Day

56 Cement caissons stop the tides from disrupting the unloading of ships

57 Activity on Normandy beach following the invasion

58 Gen. Eisenhower decorates soldiers from D-Day

59 Scene from Normandy beach today

60 Hedgehogs today

61 Rear entrance to German garrison; follow path behind the wall to entrance

62 View from inside a German garrison with angle to fire upon beach

63 Underground bunker system, this one has many rooms used to house artillery and gear. Troops may have used these to sleep as well.

64 Perfect rows of gravesites at the D-Day cemetery

65 Jewish Star of David and Crosses on gravesites at the D-Day cemetery

66 Memorial from the Gardens Of The Missing. The statue represents the souls of the soldiers whom have died. The inscription around it reads "Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord".


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