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Prisoners from the German submarine U-490 on the destroyer escort USS Inch awaiting transfer to USS Croatan, 12 Jun 1944. Note the streamlined depth charges for fast-sinking and guard with a Reising M50 submachine gun.	RAF air crew and WAAF nursing orderlies loading a wounded serviceman onto a Dakota Mark III aircraft of No. 233 Squadron RAF at B-2 Bazenville Advanced Landing Ground, Basse-Normandie, France, mid-Jun 1944	Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower touring the Normandy invasion beaches with General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, and staff at St Laurent sur Mer, Jun 12 1944. Photo 1 of 3.	Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower touring the Normandy invasion beaches with General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, and staff at St Laurent sur Mer, Jun 12 1944. Photo 2 of 3.

Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower touring the Normandy invasion beaches with General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, and staff at St Laurent sur Mer, Jun 12 1944. Photo 3 of 3.	The first WAAF orderlies Leading Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts, Corporal Lydia Alford, and Leading Aircraftwoman Edna Birbeck selected to fly on air ambulance duties to France posing before a Dakota Mk III of No. 233 Squadron RAF at B-2 Bazenville Advanced Landing Ground, Normandie, France, mid-Jun 1944	US Army and Navy invasion commanders waiting for the arrival of other flag officers on Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, the morning of 12 Jun 1944.	US Army Chief of Staff, Gen George Marshall shakes hands with another officer during his tour of the Normandy beachhead, Normandy, France, Jun 12, 1944. Note Gen Eisenhower behind Marshall.

US Army medics administered a plasma transfusion to an injured soldier, Fox Green Sector, Omaha Beach, Normandy, 12 Jun 1944	US Army troops aboard a LCT landing craft, ready to cross the English Channel to France, 12 Jun 1944	US generals Omar Bradley, George Marshall, and Henry Arnold at Normandie, France, 12 Jun 1944	US Navy LST-134 and LST-325 beached at Normandy, France as jeeps driving along the invasion beach carry casualties to the waiting vessels, 12 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 4

US Navy LST-134 and LST-325 beached at Normandy, France as jeeps driving along the invasion beach carry casualties to the waiting vessels, 12 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 4	US Navy LST-134 and LST-325 beached at Normandy, France as jeeps driving along the invasion beach carry casualties to the waiting vessels, 12 Jun 1944, photo 3 of 4	US Navy LST-134 and LST-325 beached at Normandy, France as jeeps driving along the invasion beach carry casualties to the waiting vessels, 12 Jun 1944, photo 4 of 4	US Navy LST-134 beached at Normandy, France while unloading during low tide, 12 Jun 1944; note barrage balloons overhead providing protection from air attack and DUCKs on the beach

Winston Churchill seen lighting his cigar as he and General Bernard Montgomery tour inland locations during the Normandy campaign, 12 Jun 1944.	Wrecks of German Tiger I and Panzer IV tanks, Villers-Bocage, France, Jun 1944, photo 1 of 4	Wrecks of German Tiger I and Panzer IV tanks, Villers-Bocage, France, Jun 1944, photo 2 of 4	Wrecks of German Tiger I and Panzer IV tanks, Villers-Bocage, France, Jun 1944, photo 3 of 4; Tiger I only in this view