|
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. |