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D-Day - 6 June 1944

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	101st Airborne enter St. Marcouf, Utah Beach A group of paratroopers from the 101st. Airborne enter at St. Marcouf, Utah Beach, France. From here they will move on into the continent accomplishing their assigned objectives on June 6, 1944.	More
	101st Airborne in C-47 "Operation Chicago" D-Day Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and bazooka, in a C-47 transport over the English Channel just before the drop behind enemy lines in Normandy, France. D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	101st Airborne in C-47, D-Day Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and bazooka, in a C-47 transport over the English Channel just before the drop behind enemy lines in Normandy, France for "Operation Chicago" The division, as part of the VII Corps assault, jumped in the dark morning before H-Hour to seize positions west of Utah Beach. As the assault force approached the French coast, it encountered fog and antiaircraft fire, which forced some of the planes to break formation. Paratroopers from both the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions missed their landing zones and were scattered over wide areas. From 0015 in the darkness of June 6, 1944, when Capt. Frank L. Lillyman, Skaneateles, N.Y., leader of the Pathfinder group, became the first Allied soldier to touch French soil, and for 33 successive days the 101st Airborne carried the attack to the enemy.	More
	101st Airborne ready to board gliders The 101st Airborne are ready to board gliders during "Operation Chicago" D-Day - 1, June 5, 1944.	More
	1st Infantry Division lands on Omaha beach First wave of troops from U.S. Army 116th Regimental Combat Team 1st Infantry Division unloading at Omaha beach. The troops found that naval gunfire and air bombardments had not softened German defenses or resistance. The first units try to land, but are cut down heavy fire from the Germans on Omaha Beach, June 6,1944.	More
	1st Infantry Division near Omaha beach Troops from the U.S. 1st Infantry Division on on board a USCG cutter, smoke on the cliff from the attack by the Navy. Also LCI on fire from German artillery at Omaha beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach American assault troops of the 3d Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st U.S. Infantry Division, assemble on Omaha Beach before moving into France, near Collville-Sur-Mer, France. Additional infantrymen offloading from landing craft on the right. June 6, 1944.	More
	1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach, Fox Red sector Under Wn 60 with the foot of cliff of Colleville on Sea at Omaha Beach, Fox Red sector on the right of Fox Green and F-1 sector of L/16th IR of 1st Infantry Division. These soldiers use the cliff fo shelter of German fire, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	29th Infantry Division move on Omaha Beach U.S. 29th Infantry Division move on Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	3rd Canadian Infantry Division aboard LCT-243 3rd Canadian Infantry Division aboard LCT-243 ready to move on Juno Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944.	More
	4th Infantry Division lands on Utah Beach 4th Infantry Division unloads on Utah Beach from U.S. Coast Gaurd LCI, destroyed vehicles and body's lie all over beach. Casualties on Utah Beach, the westernmost landing zone, were the lightest of any beach with 197 out of roughly 23,000 troops landed. 4th Infantry Division found themselves in the wrong positions due to a current that pushed their landing craft to the southeast. Instead of landing at Tare Green and Uncle Red sectors, they came ashore at Victor sector, which was lightly defended. Relatively little German opposition was encountered. Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt Jr, the Asst. Commander of 4th Division, was famous for stating "We'll start the war from right here."	More
	4th Infantry Division move on LCT's Troops from the 4th Infantry Division with 1st Engineer Special Brigade on LCT near Utah Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	4th Infantry Division, VII Corps and the 359th RCT on Utah Beach 4th Infantry Division, VII Corps and the 359th RCT of the 90th Infantry Division on Utah Beach, Normandy. Balloons fill the sky to stop low flying aircraft attacking ground troops on D Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	6th Canadian Armoured Regiment "1st Hussars" Juno Beach The 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment "1st Hussars" and The Queen's Own "Rifles of Canada" head to Juno Beach. The first wave suffered 50% casualties, the second highest of the five D-Day beachheads, June 6, 1944. The use of armour was successful at Juno, in some instances actually landing ahead of the infantry as intended and helping clear a path inland. Despite the obstacles, within hours the Canadians were off the beach and beginning their advance inland.	More
	82nd Airborne board C-47 for Normandy, D-Day Troops with the 82nd Airborne get ready to board a C-47 transport for "Operation Neptune," the division dropped behind Utah Beach, Normandy, France between Ste Mere-Eglise and Carentan on June 6th, 1944, D-Day.	More
	82nd Airborne on C-47 transport "Operation Detroit" 82nd Airborne on a C-47 transport over the English Channel, are heading to Cherbourg Peninsula at 0300 hours for "Operation Detroit" on June 6, 1944. D-Day.	More
	82nd Airborne with German prisoners, D-Day Troops from 82nd Airborne Division with large group of German prisoners with hands on the head, pass by a destroyed American truck in Normandy, June 6, 1944, D-Day, 12h00,	More
	90th Infantry Division on LCT, Utah Beach U.S. Soldiers get ready to move on LCT and head out to Utah Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	90th Infantry Division on U.S. Coast Guard LCT U.S. Coast Guard LCT with troops from the 90th Infantry Division head out to Utah Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.	More
	Allied glider lands on hedgerow, D-Day Allied glider with the 101st Airborne Divisions on board, crash-landed on hedgerow near Hiesville, France, during the early stages of D-Day. June 6, 1944.	More
	American landing party lend helping hands to others on D-Day GIs who have landed on the northern coast of France during the early stages of D-Day man a life line to help other Americans approaching the beach in a swamped landing craft. June 6, 1944.	More
	American troops unload on Omaha beach Unloading of the American troops with Omaha beach on D-Day, Ruquet (St-Laurent-on-Sea), at the moment when unload there the 2 regiments of reinforcements, the 18th IR (of US 1st ID), and the 115th IR (of US 29th ID). At this time Wn 64 and 65 which frames the valley of Ruquet already fell to the hands from American who can start to open the road of Ruquet towards the borough of Saint Laurent held by the Germans. June 6, 1944.	More
	B-26 with 453rd over Normandy, D-Day U.S. Air Corps B-26 with 323rd BG, seen in the air after the unloading of bombs on German strongholds during the battle of Normandy, June 6, 1944. Center and bottom of photo you can see areas of Normandy on fire.	More
	Battleship USS Nevada fires at Azeville, France Guns of 14"of battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) in full action the morning of June 6, 1944 on the battery at Azeville. It belongs to the bomber force A of Rear Admiral M.L. Deyo of the Naval Western Task force TF 122 of Admiral Alan G. Kirk for the force U "Task force 125" D-Day.	More
	Boeing B-17 Fortress over target Boeing B-17 Fortress over it's target, a 500 lb bomb has been just released, behind plane two other Boeing 452nd Bomb Group, 45th Wing Combat, 3rd Air Division.	More