General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of Co. E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division before boarding the aircrafts at Greenham Commons Airfield, Berkshire, England, on the eve of the Airborne phase of the Normandy invasion, June 5th, 1944.

Farewell talk

An American GI from the 128th Artillery Battalion of the 6th Armored Division is holding a captured German assault rifle StG-44 (MP-43/1).

Assault rifle

One of the German paratroopers captured by US forces in the Normandy region, near the village of St. Georges D'Elle.