Members of the first wave of beach battalion Ducks lay low under the fire of Nazi guns on the beach of Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. One soldier (on the left) operates a walkie talkie radio directing other landing craft to the safest spots for unloading their parties of fighting men. (AP Photo)

Advance party gives guidance

Men and supplies are being ferried out to landing crafts enroute for the initial Allied invasion of the Normandy, France; June 6, 1944. 

Men and supplies to landing crafts

US soldiers, part of the troop build-up, arrive on the Normandy beaches; France, June 1944. 