Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat, June 6, 1944.  CPhoM. Robert F. Sargent. (Coast Guard)
NARA FILE #:  026-G-2343
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1041

D-Day Landing

Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th Inf., standing in reverence before an altar in a damaged Catholic Church.  Note: pews at left appear undamaged, while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about the sanctuary.  Acerno, Italy.  September 23, 1943.  Benson. (Army)
NARA FILE #:  111-SC-188691
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1033

Soldier in Damaged Church

Members of an American landing party lend helping hands to others whose landing craft was sunk by enemy action off the coast of France.  These survivors reached Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, by using a life raft.  June 6, 1944.  Weintraub.  (Army)
NARA FILE #:  111-SC-190366
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1042