T-4 Joseph F. Gorenc of Headquarters Company, 3rd Battaglion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division boards a C-47 Skytrain from the 98th Troop Carrier Squadron at Exeter in Devon, England.


Paratrooper

An M4A3 Sherman medium tank of the 66th Tank Battalion, 2nd Armored Division backs aboard a U.S. Navy Landing Ship, Tank (LST) in England during the embarkation phase that necessarily preceeded crossing the English Channel. Note the U.S. Navy officer perched on the upper hinge of the ship's port side bow door.


Preparation for invasion

General Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. Ike ultimately gave the order to begin Operation Neptune/Overlord by saying "OK, lets go" at Southwick House near Portsmouth in Hampshire, England.