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General Sir Bernard Montgomery, 21st Army Group Commander, steps onto Juno Beach, Mike Red area, Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France 8 Jun 1945 after being ferried ashore from his ship in a DUKW.	German prisoners being taken away atop a cliff at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 8 Jun 1944; note American flag draped on cliff wall to prevent friendly fire	Men of 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division, resting at the beach at Omaha Beach near Colville-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 8 Jun 1944	Next to a fallen soldier, a fellow comrade formed a cross with rifles to pay his respects, Normandy, France, Jun 1944

Paratrooper of US 101st Airborne Division holding a Nazi German flag captured in a village near Utah Beach, Saint-Marcouf, France, 8 Jun 1944	Rear Admiral Alan Kirk, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Major General Hugh Keen, aboard USS Augusta off Normandy, France, 8 Jun 1944	Reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland at Omaha Beach, Normandy, 8 Jun 1944	Remains of killed American soldiers gathered in a field, Normandy, France, early Jun 1944

Shortly after arriving in Normandy, France, General Bernard Montgomery’s Jeep stopped so he could examine German prisoners being marched toward the beach, 8 Jun 1944.	US Army engineers building a road on one of the Normandy beaches, 8 Jun 1944	American men and equipment being landed near Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 9 Jun 1944	Photograph of a damaged German torpedo lodged in the deck works of the captured U-505 before United States Navy ordinancemen removed it and jettisoned it, 9 Jun 1944

Truck moving across the Caen Canal at Pegasus Bridge, Bénouville, France, 9 Jun 1944; note grounded Horsa glider in background	US Navy salvage team removes a damaged torpedo from its stowage position on the deck of the Captured German submarine U-505 before jettisoning the torpedo over the side, eastern Atlantic, 9 June 1944.	Vehicles and British troops on board a LST off Utah Beach, Normandy, 9 Jun 1944	8 cm GrW 34 mortar and crew, France, Jun 1944

A camouflaged SdKfz. 251 halftrack vehicle passing a column of German troops, France, Jun 1944	A German Jagdpanther tank destroyer crewman atop the vehicle during the Allied invasion of France, Jun 1944	A LCT and an US Coast Guard-manned boat operating off Normandy, France, Jun 1944; note jeep vehicles onboard the LCT	A platoon of African-American troops of the US Army moving along a farm house as they prepared to eliminate a German sniper up ahead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France, 10 Jun 1944