D-DAY in Pictures

Europe at time of the D-Day

invasion

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

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

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Southampton docks

shortly before D-Day

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

Officers give encouragement to paratroopers before departure

Paratrooper boards plane before attack

Paratroopers prepare to jump

Paratroopers stream out of a plane

Paratroopers fill the sky behind German lines on D-Day

Loading a glider for the attack

Gliders pulled over English Channel pass naval assault force

Glider attack behind

German lines on D-Day

Inside a glider

Glider that crashed in D-Day invasion

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

Ships approach Normandy

Soldiers load into landing

craft before

heading toward shore

USS Bayfield lowers landing crafts for the assault of Utah Beach

Allied landing craft nears Normandy beach

Landing crafts approaching the beach

Naval ships fire on German defenses during the invasion

Troops in landing craft approach Omaha Beach

Soldiers prepare to depart landing craft

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

Soldiers hide behind steel hedgehogs along beach intended

to slow Allied landing craft

Soldiers race ashore despite heavy German machine gun fire

Soldiers rush up beach under heavy fire

Troops move over a Utah Beach seawall during the attack

Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc scale a cliff to reach

German defenses

Senior officers on off-shore ship watch invasion develop

Omaha Beach from the air

German defenders surrender near Omaha Beach

At Utah Beach, members of an American landing party help others whose landing

craft was sunk by the Germans

Medics help an injured American soldier

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

U.S. assault troops injured while storming Omaha Beach, wait for

evacuation to a field hospital

After the victory soldiers rest in a German pillbox

Prisoner of war enclosure on Utah Beach

Omaha Beach by the afternoon

Army Rangers resting atop Pointe du Hoc after attack

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

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

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

Normandy beach two days after invasion

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

Mulberry Harbor

from above

Trucks pour ashore on temporary docks

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

Cement caissons stop the tides from disrupting the unloading of ships

Activity on Normandy beach following the invasion

Gen. Eisenhower decorates soldiers from D-Day

Scene from Normandy beach today

Hedgehogs today

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

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

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

Perfect rows of gravesites at the D-Day cemetery

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

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".