Ambulances on a Whale floating pier of the Mulberry artificial harbour near Arromanches, France, during the Normandy Invasion of World War II. June, 1944. 

Code name Mulberry

Their gun barrels covered against the water spray, U.S. infantrymen gaze from their landing craft toward Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Approaching the beach

A Horsa glider lies flipped onto its back on the Cotentin Peninsula, France, where it attempted to land in support of paratroopers on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Troopers killed in the crash are laid out on the grass.