Soldiers in the advance guard of the U.S. Army’s 29th Infantry Division, the “Blue and Gray Division,” march into St. Lo, France on July 20, 1944. The 29th ID captured the city as part of the XIX Corps of the...
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British soldiers from the 6th Airborne Division are photographed with a wreck of a Marder I (Sd.Kfz. 135) tank destroyer, built on the Hotchkiss H35 chassis, in Normandy, August 1944. (Imperial War Museum...
A jeep and a halftrack towing a howitzer lead a convoy of vehicles ashore on a floating causeway from the Mulberry harbor at Omaha Beach, June 1944. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Collection, U.S. National Archives.) Omaha Beach...
GI’s advance past the wreck of an M4 Sherman tank of the 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division in Normandy. (U.S. Army Photograph.)
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCG-1 waits off Omaha Beach on the morning of D-Day tied up alongside an LCT. (U.S. Coast Guard Photograph.)
A Luftwaffe FW 190 fighter shot down by 9th Air Force Mustangs over the American sector in Normandy in July 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
An Allied wrecker pulls a StuG III assault gun from the roadside ditch where the panzer was abandoned in Normandy. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Lineup of M4 Sherman tanks of the 1st Polish Armoured Division during Operation Totalize in the Normandy Campaign, August 1944. (Imperial War Museum Photograph.)
A German Würzburg radar installation in Normandy, France, 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Original Caption: World War II re-enactors make final preparation to drive their Sherman tank to a ceremony June 4, 2015, to commemorate the U.S. Army’s efforts to liberate Montebourg, France, after the D-Day landings. More...