After crossing the English Channel and dropping anchors off Normandy from 3:15 am, the USS Samuel Chase took the men on board and transferred them to LCVP landing crafts, bound for Omaha Beach, including photographer Robert Capa; June 6, 1944. - These crafts then return with wounded soldiers to be taken back to Weymouth, England, the next day...

Onward to Omaha Beach

A DUKW - 6-wheel amphibious vehicle - and a jeep with MPs at the entrance of the commune of Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France. June 1944.

In the heart of Omaha Beach

U.S. soldiers keep an eye as a group of German prisoners are marched to the ships to take them back to England to POW camp; Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.