US troops come ashore at Omaha Beach days after the D-Day landings; Normandy, France, June 1944.

On liberated French soil  

 American troops being ferried to larger ships in preparation for the English Channel crossing, leading to the Allied Invasion of Normandy, France; Weymouth, Dorset, Great Britain, June 1-5, 1944.

Transport ships waiting

US soldiers patrol the war-raveged streets of the commune of  Saint-Sauveur-Le-Vicomte, Manche, Cotentin peninsula, France; June 16, 1944. 