Normandy Preparation, Landings & Breakthrough
Loading amphibious shipping for the Normandy invasion, 1944
USS LST-357 loading vehicles for the Normandy invasion, 1944
Tanks loaded in an LCT for the Normandy invasion, 1944
U.S. Soldiers march through an English coast town, just before the Normandy invasion, 1944
U.S. Army Rangers in a landing craft, before the Normandy invasion, 1944
Loading LST's for the Normandy invasion, 1944
Loading a Half-track onto an LCT before invasion
Paratrooper boards plane at an English field
Chart of lines of attack against Germany
Landing Craft waits to load troops in English port
Troops board landing craft in England
LCI(L) Convoy crossing English Channel on D-Day
"Rhino" Ferry and Tug approaches Normandy Shore, June 6, 1944
Landing Crafts put troops ashore on Omaha Beach, D-Day
Troops in an LCVP before landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day
Smoking LCVP approaches Omaha Beach, D-Day
Troops wade ashore on Omaha Beach, D-Day
Sinking LCI(L)-85 comes alongside other ship off Omaha Beach, D-Day
Coast Guard boat transferring casualties off Normandy, June 1944
Troops and Crewman approach Normandy beach in landing craft
LST approaches the Normandy coast, June 6, 1944
German prisoners debark in an English port after capture at Normandy
LCM evacuates casualties from Normandy beach on D-Day
USS LST-21 unloads British tanks and trucks off Normandy, D-Day
Coast Guardsman rescue survivors off Normandy, June 1944
Rescueing a survivor off Normandy, June 1944
LSM brings casualties alongside transport off Normandy, June 6, 1944
American Soldier lies dead on Omaha Beach
Transport planes fly low over Utah Beach on June 6, 1944
Catholic Mass on board an LCI enroute to Normandy invasion beaches
German "Beetle" miniature explosive tank at Normandy, June 1944
Mongolians in German service captured at Normandy
German coast defense gun emplacement Normandy, 1944
LSTs landing vehicles and cargo on a Normandy beach
HMS Centurion during Normandy storm of June 19-22
Lowering a Jeep from a transport into an LCM during Normandy invasion
Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats off Normandy, June 1944
German POWs take shelter in a trench
Engineers construct a railway spur on a Normandy beach, June 1944
Sinking LCI(L) off Normandy beach, June 1944
Air Force B26 over Normandy beaches, June 1944
Omaha Beach, 1944
Overlooking Omaha Beach, 1944
Army Rangers resting in Pointe du Hoc area, Omaha Beach
Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, June 6, 1944
Army Rangers resting upon the Pointe du Hoc cliffs, June 6, 1944
"Rhino" ferry off English coast before Normandy invasion
Omaha Beach, June 1944
Troops onboard an LST ready to cross English Channel to Normandy
Army medics give candy to injured French child, June 1944
Army medics treat injured French civilians, June 1944
Convoy of LCI(L)s enroute to Normandy invasion beaches
Construction work overlooking Omaha Beach
USS Arkansas bombing off Normandy, June 6, 1944
Gooseberry Harbor, Omaha Beach, June 1944
Searching and questioning German prisoners at Normandy beachhead
Searching and questioning German prisoners at Normandy beachhead
P47 fighter that crash landed on Normandy beach
USS Arkansas, Normandy beach
P38 fighter overlooking Omaha beach
Detonating German landmine during invasion
View of Omaha Beach from damaged gun emplacement
USS Nevada firing her 14" guns off Normandy, June 1944
Normandy beach
Casualties evacuated by LCVP from Normandy beaches, June 8, 1944
LCI(L)'s underway off Normandy beaches, June 6, 1944
Troops move off a Normandy beach, June 1944
Senior officers inspect Normandy beachhead
Omaha beach soon after landings
Omaha beach soon after landings
Casualty evacuation boats, Omaha Beach
Trucks move inland from Omaha Beach, June 1944
Stranded landing craft and supplies on Omaha Beach, June 1944
German soldiers carry wounded comrades to landing craft
Prisoner shovels sand, June 1944
German pillbox knocked out by naval gunfire, June 1944
German pillbox used as US command post
Vehicles move inland on Omaha Beach, June 1944
LCMs landing troops and supplies on Utah Beach, June 8, 1944
Casualties board an LCVP for evacuation
Normandy invasion beach
SS Charles Morgan sunk off Utah Beach
Chaplain and soldier at Normandy field hospital
Landing craft off Normandy coast
British LCT(A) 2008 brings US troops to Normandy beach
Navy Beach Battalion takes a break, June 11
Navy Beach Battalion takes over German trenches, June 11
Truck drives ashore from USS LCT 520, June 11
Interrogating prisoners, Normandy
DUKW brings supplies ashore
Navy Communication Command Post, Normandy beach
Disabling miniature German "Beetle" tanks
Navy Corpsman writes a letter from Normandy bunker
Army truck rolls off Rhino ferry
Piled German beach obstructions
Navy Beach Battalion prepares sandbagged emplacement
Troops march up Normandy beach
Partially sunk LST
Troops marching on Utah Beach
Normandy crossroads
Bringing in a German sniper
Searching a German sniper
Surgeons working near Normandy beaches
Jeep brings casualties to an LST for evacuation
Bringing casualties aboard an LST
Small craft repair and recovery unit
USS LST-325 stranded at low tide
Sherman tank mired on Normandy beach
Jeep towed ashore
Army truck comes ashore
German prisoners marched down Normandy beach
Men on a Rhino ferry ducking to avoid German strafing from a plane
Men on a Rhino ferry ducking to avoid German strafing from a plane
Navy Beach Battalion members duck from German strafing
Small craft repair and recovery unit
M-10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer near St. Lo
Scene in St. Lo, France
Bulldozers clear a path during attack on Cherbourg
Gliders in fields near Cherbourg during the Normandy invasion
Ste. Mere Eglise street after its capture
U.S. Soldier talks with French refugees in Ste. Mere Eglise
Ste. Mere Eglise
Ste Marie du Mont
Troops and residents of Ste. Marie du Mont
Troops and woman in Ste. Marie du Mont
German gun emplacement at Cherbourg
Damaged railway station in Cherbourg, Normandy
German mines in a railway car at Cherbourg, France
German POWs at Cherbourg, France
Incomplete launching site for V-1 flying bombs at Cherbourg
Minesweeper exploding German mines near Cherbourg, France
PTs and USCG patrol boats at Cherbourg, France
Paratroopers in French village at St. Marcouf
Wrecked streets of St. Lo
Medics helping injured soldier
American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France
Canadian infantry walking through rubble of Caen, France 10 July 1944
Canadian infantry
Canadian forces unload LCI on Juno Beach
German prisoners before their transfer by LCT to England on Juno beach
On D-Day, the reserve brigade lands after Juno was secured
Allied forces of the 3rd Canadian Division begin breakout past the port of Courseilles-sur-Mer
Sherman Tanks land on Juno Beach
LCT loaded with Canadian Infantry heading toward Juno Beach
British commandos scramble ashore from their landing craft on Juno Beach on D-Day
France, Belgium, Netherlands
Canadian forces crossing the Ijssel River en route to Arnhem
Canadian forces in the Liri Valley, 1944
Buffalo amphibious vehicles taking Canadian First Army across the Scheldt in Holland, September 1944
Seventh Bridgade, Third Canadian Div., moving through Backhoute at, Breskens, Netherlands, 18 Oct 1944
Sherman tanks of 5th Canadian Armoured Division, 31 Oct 1944, Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands
A column of Alligators on the Scheldt River near Terneuzen, October 13th, 1944
Shermans from 10th Canadian Armoured Regiment in the liberation of the Netherlands