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 with German prisoners of war, near the port city of Cherbourg, north-western France; June 22-28, 1944.


US guard with heavy machine gun

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)