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A Jeep full of US 101st Airborne paratroopers at a Normandy check-point, Jun 1944. Note Horsa gliders in the background and a box of full M1 Garand ammunition clips in the immediate foreground behind the MP’s leg.CG-4A glider making a training landing at Beuzeville Airfield, Sainte-Mère-Église, France, Jun 1944; note invasion stripes.US Army troops drive by the people of Montebourg, Normandy, France, June 1944. Note M2 Half-Track “Dirty Gertie” and M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank with soldiers sitting on the folded skirt frame.US Pilots of 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group with P-51D Mustang
A Jeep full of US 101st Airborne paratroopers at a Normandy check-point, Jun 1944. Note Horsa gliders in the background and a box of full M1 Garand ammunition clips in the immediate foreground behind the MP’s leg.CG-4A glider making a training landing at Beuzeville Airfield, Sainte-Mère-Église, France, Jun 1944; note invasion stripes.US Army troops drive by the people of Montebourg, Normandy, France, June 1944. Note M2 Half-Track “Dirty Gertie” and M4 Sherman Duplex-Drive tank with soldiers sitting on the folded skirt frame.US Pilots of 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group with P-51D Mustang 'Fools Paradise IV' at Maupertus Airfield, Cherbourg, France, Jul-Aug 1944; note Jeep and CCKW fuel truck
Canadian troops at the LLCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Samuel Chase approaching Omaha Beach. The boat is smoking from a fire that resulted when a German machine gun bullet hit a soldier’s hand grenade.LCVP landing craft from LST-284 off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944. LCI(L)-321 is in the background.Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2.
Canadian troops at the L'église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Bernières-sur-Mer, near Juno Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944LCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Samuel Chase approaching Omaha Beach. The boat is smoking from a fire that resulted when a German machine gun bullet hit a soldier’s hand grenade.LCVP landing craft from LST-284 off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944. LCI(L)-321 is in the background.Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2.
Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944; note many with bicycles. Photo 1 of 2.Pre-invasion bombing by A-20 bombers of Pointe du Hoc at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944Minesweeper USS Tide with her back broken and sinking after triggering a magnetic mine off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944.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.
Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944; note many with bicycles. Photo 1 of 2.Pre-invasion bombing by A-20 bombers of Pointe du Hoc at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944Minesweeper USS Tide with her back broken and sinking after triggering a magnetic mine off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944.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.
Reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland at Omaha Beach, Normandy, 8 Jun 1944Shortly 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.General Bernard Montgomery on a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.General Bernard Montgomery standing up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car during a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.
Reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland at Omaha Beach, Normandy, 8 Jun 1944Shortly 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.General Bernard Montgomery on a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.General Bernard Montgomery standing up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car during a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.
Generals Bernard Montgomery, Miles Dempsey, and Omar Bradley at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.Generals Omar Bradley and Miles Dempsey at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle.US Army patrol examining a German 88 mm FlaK anti-aircraft gun with its barrel splayed by the retreating Germans near Montebourg, France, June 1944
Generals Bernard Montgomery, Miles Dempsey, and Omar Bradley at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.Generals Omar Bradley and Miles Dempsey at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle.US Army patrol examining a German 88 mm FlaK anti-aircraft gun with its barrel splayed by the retreating Germans near Montebourg, France, June 1944

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