D-DAY in Pictures

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D-DAY in Pictures
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Europe at time of the D-Day invasion
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D-Day invasion to cross English Channel to
Normandy, France
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Army and Navy ships at Southampton docks
preparing for D-Day
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits
Southampton docks shortly before D-Day
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Gen. Eisenhower talking to paratroopers before
loading a plane for take-off
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Officers give encouragement to paratroopers
before departure
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Paratrooper boards plane before attack
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Paratroopers prepare to jump
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Paratroopers stream out of a plane
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Paratroopers fill the sky behind German lines on
D-Day
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Loading a glider for the attack
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Gliders pulled over English Channel pass naval
assault force
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Glider attack behind German lines on D-Day
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Inside a glider
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Glider that crashed in D-Day invasion
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Five beaches in Normandy were invaded, with
troops from the U.S., Great Britain and Canada
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Ships approach Normandy
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Soldiers load into landing craft before heading
toward shore
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USS Bayfield lowers landing crafts for the
assault of Utah Beach
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Allied landing craft nears Normandy beach
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Landing crafts approaching the beach
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Naval ships fire on German defenses during the
invasion
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Troops in landing craft approach Omaha Beach
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Soldiers prepare to depart landing craft
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U.S. soldiers wade toward the beach with heavily
defended cliffs in the background
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Soldiers hide behind steel hedgehogs along beach
intended to slow Allied landing craft
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Soldiers race ashore despite heavy German machine
gun fire
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Soldiers rush up beach under heavy fire
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Troops move over a Utah Beach seawall during the
attack
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Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc scale a cliff to
reach German defenses
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Senior officers on off-shore ship watch invasion
develop
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Omaha Beach from the air
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German defenders surrender near Omaha Beach
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At Utah Beach, members of an American landing
party help others whose landing craft was sunk by
the Germans
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Medics help an injured American soldier
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Crossed rifles in the sand placed as a tribute to
this fallen soldier
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U.S. assault troops injured while storming Omaha
Beach, wait for evacuation to a field hospital
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After the victory soldiers rest in a German
pillbox
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Prisoner of war enclosure on Utah Beach
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Omaha Beach by the afternoon
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Army Rangers resting atop Pointe du Hoc after
attack
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Officer inspects a German pillbox at Pointe du
Hoc on D-Day
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Landing craft used to evacuate casualties from
beaches on D-Day
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Rhino ferry and tugboat approach shore on D-Day
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Normandy beach two days after invasion
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Mulberry Harbor as the temporary docks
following D-Day were known as
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Mulberry Harbor from above
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Trucks pour ashore on temporary docks
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Tanks and trucks make way to France shortly after
D-Day
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Cement caissons stop the tides from disrupting
the unloading of ships
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Activity on Normandy beach following the invasion
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Gen. Eisenhower decorates soldiers from D-Day
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Scene from Normandy beach today
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Hedgehogs today
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Rear entrance to German garrison follow path
behind the wall to entrance
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View from inside a German garrison with angle to
fire upon beach
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Underground bunker system, this one has many
rooms used to house artillery and gear. Troops
may have used these to sleep as well.
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Perfect rows of gravesites at the D-Day cemetery
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Jewish Star of David and Crosses on gravesites at
the D-Day cemetery
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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".