An expanded photo of a similar one already posted...
General Eisenhower talks to one of the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division before he and his comrades board the planes to start the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. The Supreme Commander was worried that the men might sustain casualty rates as high as 75%; the final figure was much lower, close to 10%. 


Showing concern for the paratroopers

The German military commandant of the city of Saint-Malo, Brittany, north-western France, Wehrmacht colonel Andreas von Aulock, smiling and perhaps relieved, walks between two American officers after he surrendered himself and his command to US Forces; June, 1944. 


Surrender

German prisoners of war are marched to the rear under guard along a road lined with hedgerows, past American troops, advancing in the opposite direction in the area of Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy, France; June 1944.
