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U.S. infantrymen get a lift from Sherman tanks during the breakout from Normandy, early August 1944
The Normandy American Cemetery, near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, containing the graves of 9,386 dead.
Smoke streams from a landing craft hit by machine-gun fire as it approaches Omaha Beach, D-Day.
On D plus 1 (June 7), troops of the 2nd Infantry Division file up the bluff from Easy Red sector toward Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.
An 88-millimetre gun points seaward from a casemate at Les-Dunes-de-Varraville, Utah Beach.
Various transport and fire support landing craft
Omaha beach defense cross section
Plan of strong points WN 66 and WN 68
Omaha beach cross section
German prisoners are marched out of Cherbourg
Charles de Gaulle in triumph, Paris, August 26, 1944.
Map of Normandy invasion.
Normandy Invasion: June 8 - June 18, 1944 (Battle for Caen)
Voie de la Liberty - Road of Liberty
Planned U.S. movements at Omaha Beach
Actual U.S. movements at Omaha Beach
Adolf Hitler nurses a sore arm after the attempt on his life on July 20, 1944. With him are (from left) Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring, and Martin Bormann.
Soldiers plan their next stop after the wreckage of Caen. The British 2nd Army did not succeed in taking the city until July 11.
The few remaining church spires rise above the rubble of liberated Caen, July 1944.
A member of the 16th Infantry Regiment kicks through the water in the first assault wave, Easy Red sector.
Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment seek shelter from German machine-gun fire in shallow water behind "Czech hedgehog" beach obstacles, Easy Red sector.
U.S. infantrymen, backed up by a column of M10 tank destroyers, wait in the tall grass of a field near Saint-Lô, Fr., July 1944.