US troops and Army Corps of Engineers building and operating beachhead railroad links to facilitate delivery of seaborne supplies and equipment from landing craft to French railway lines shortly after victorious D-Day invasion.

Beachhead railroad links

African-American troops watching LST unload railroad cars filled with supplies directly onto beachhead railroad links built by US troops to facilitate delivery of supplies from landing craft to French railway lines shortly after D-Day invasion.June 10,1944

Railroad cars 

U.S. Army Rangers rest atop the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc, which they stormed in support of "Omaha" Beach landings on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.Photograph was released for publication on 12 June 1944.