Wrecked portable dock with sunken ships acting as a breakwater to form a harbour in the background, in France on May 28, 1945. This dock, along with many others was floated across the Channel from England, to help unload the supplies for the troops that landed on D-day. (AP Photo)
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Wrecked assault craft half buried in the sand on Omaha beach, reminders of the D-Day invasion, in France, on May 28, 1945. (AP Photo)
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Four men who landed on D-day point to their outfit on a monument erected on Utah Beach, France in memory of the combat engineers on May 28, 1945, who were killed storming the beach. From left to right they are: Corporal George Bennett, Corporal Elmer Ramsey, Sergeant Harry Imhauser, and Private First Class Reid M. Graybill. (AP Photo)
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Their pontoon barges heavily-laden with men and equipment on Sept. 20, 1944, the first wave of Navy Seabees heads toward the Normandy beachhead of “D” day, the strange looking craft in the center being pushed passed the bow of the battle- ready USS. Arkansas by powerful “Sea-mules.” (AP Photo)
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Major Florence Conrad, left, of Chicago Ill, is with members of her unit of French women Ambulance drivers in England on August 31, 1944 before they embarked for France to join the Allied armies. Major Conrad formerly lived in Paris. (AP Photo)
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When those LST doors swing open, you can expect most anything to emerge. A freight car makes its exit at Cherbourg Harbor, France on Sept. 4, 1944, using a specially constructed ramp. (AP Photo)
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Invasion craft lie grounded and beached on a Normandy beachhead, France on August 20, 1944, after a gale swept the northern French coast and caused considerable damage to the various types of vessels used in the invasion of France. (AP Photo)
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Barrage balloons float over a Normandy beachhead, France on August 20, 1944, where a storm grounded and damaged many of the vessels used in the vessels used in the allied invasion of northern France. (AP Photo)
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Navy Beach master gives direction to an Army officer for the emplacement of his men after debarkation from landing craft in France on August 24, 1944. After grouping and a speedy checkup, the army officer will then speed his men into action. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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These two American landing craft set high and dry on the beach of the Normandy Coast of France on June 20, 1944 as unloading operations continue while crewmen await return of the tide to re-float them. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
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Powerful boom lowers a heavy truck over the side of a transport vessel to the beck of a “Rhine Ferry” off Cherbourg Manned by Seabees on June 21, 1944. Rhine Ferries have done invaluable work in the invasion, moving hundreds of tons of vital goods to the French coast. (AP Photo)
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Coast Guardsmen unload a water pump and fire fighting equipment from a landing craft Somewhere on the French invasion coast on August 18, 1944. Fire apparatus is an important item in the supplies of the American invaders. It must be available to extinguish the conflagrations that are inevitable with war. (AP Photo)
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Crews of small landing craft, engager in landing troops and supplies on the invasion coast of France, line up on a landing Barge kitchen for a hot midday meal on June 16, 1944, while other small craft await their turn to come alongside. Affectionately called “Micky’s Fish and Chip Bar,” the floating kitchen is a converted Thames Barge and served up more than 1000 hot meals on invasion day. (AP Photo)
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Every type of craft is being used to facilitate the speedy transportation of men and material to the Normandy beachhead. A “Rhino Ferry” laden with men and material forces its way ahead to the shores of Normandy, France on June 19, 1944. (AP Photo)
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With smoke and fire belching from her huge guns, the U.S. battleship “Texas” opens up on enemy installations on the French Coast on June 13, 1944. American naval forces played a prominent part in the landing of invasion forces on the shore of France - covering the assault troops with their guns fired as they circled around right off the coast. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft lying off the coast of Normandy waiting to discharge equipment and men on June 9, 1944. (AP Photo/Jack Rice)
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Coast Guard Lt. (J.G.) James V. Forrestal (left, standing), namesake and nephew of the navy secretary, takes part in briefing of landing boat coxswains for the invasion of France. Lieut. (JG) John Summer of 2570 Briggs Ave., Bronx, (reading orders) instructs men on June 10, 1944. Lieut. Forrestal lives at 36 Teller Ave., Beacon, N.Y. This picture was made on a coast guard-manned assault transport that participated in the invasion. (AP Photo)
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A puff of black smoke blows away from the guns of the USS Arkansas as the might battleship lays down a tremendous barrage against German installations on the beach area of France on June 12, 1944, in support to the allied ground forces who stormed the Norman beaches. (AP Photo)
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Members of a U.S. Navy Beach Battalion dig in and arrange gear for their first night ashore in France on June 9, 1944. (AP Photo)
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2nd Lt. Ray A. Karcy, of 31 Haddon Ave., Atlantic City, N.J., Army chaplain, conducts a Catholic service aboard a landing craft in an English port on June 9, 1944 before the Americans set off for the invasion of Northern France. (AP Photo)
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Royal Naval cruisers crossing the channel in France on June 23, 1944. (AP Photo)
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King George, of Great Britain, takes the salute of assault craft at a British invasion port on June 9, 1944 which he visited before the attack on the French Coast began. He inspected the invasion fleet. (AP Photo)
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Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, center, of Philadelphia, PA., commander U.S. Navy task forces in the June 6th invasion of France, talks to one of his 20mm gun crews aboard his flagship on June 9, 1944, as H-Hour approaches. (AP Photo)
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Gustave an R.A.F. Coastal Command carrier pigeon, brought the first War Correspondent’s dispatch back to England from the Allied Invasion forces off France on June 6, 1944. The message was written on an RAF Pigeon form by Mr. Taylor, of Reuters, twenty miles off the enemy coast, and the bird was released at 8.30 in the morning. Flying against a 50 miles an hour head wind, the Pigeon landed in its loft on a south coast Coastal Command Station at a 1.46 in the afternoon. The message was immediately telephoned to London for publication, it read: “We are just twenty miles or so off the beaches. First Assault troops landed 0750. Signal says no interference from enemy gunfire on beach. Passage uneventful. Steaming steadily on. Formations Lightings, Typhoons, Fortresses crossing since 0545. No enemy aircraft seen.” A photographic copy of the message shown June 9, 1944. (AP Photo)
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American Invasion troops stop for a breather under a protecting chalk cliff after wading ashore on the French Coast on June 9, 1944, during allied invasion of northern France. (AP Photo)
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Many types of landing craft - including “ducks”, barges, LCTs and LSTs are used to shuttle supplies to a Normandy beachheads on June 10, 1944 for troops fighting their way inland. In the horizon are dozen of transports and overhead are barrage balloons. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft coming in to a beach in France on June 7, 1944, set American fighting men down on the continent for the invasion of Fortress Europe, as their comrades already landed form on the shore. (AP Photo)
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United in the common objective of victory for Allied Arms, the officers of Four Services Line the rail on the bridge of a coast guard-manned LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) at a British Port on June 7, 1944. Left to right: Coast Guard Lt. John A. Salt, Miami, Fla., Commander of the LST; Commander Campbell Ross, RNVR, London, England; Lt. Comm. E. G. Janeway, USN, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.; and Lt. Col. E. P. Combe, of Edinburgh, Scotland. (AP Photo)
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As a Coast Guard combat cutter moves shoreward in operations just preceding the invasion of Southern France in June 1944, part of the vast invasion armada which carried allied forces and their supplies stretches out behind it. (AP Photo)
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A puff of black smoke blows away from the guns of the USS Arkansas in June 1944 as the might battleship lays down a tremendous barrage against German installations on the beach area of France, in support to the Allied ground forces who stormed the Normandy beaches. (AP Photo)
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“Ducks” (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during opening of invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast by Allied force on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Destroyers and small naval craft patrol the Channel and protect ships carrying reinforcements in men and materials against the enemy in Normandy in June 1944. (AP Photo)
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Glider borne troops crossing the Channel ships of the Royal Navy on June 6, 1944. In the background are the battleships Warspite and Ramillies. (AP Photo)
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These members of the first groups of assault troops to take part in the Allied invasion of Northern France receive benediction from an Army chaplain before leaving England on June 6, 1944, for the European continent. Their assault craft are in the background. (AP Photo)
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Armored vehicles arriving at a British Port for transportation to France on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft loaded with American troops pass other landing craft lining the dock side while in foreground, other craft take on equipment on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Off the British coast, this huge fleet of warships, transports and landing craft awaits the signal to get underway for the allied invasion of northern France on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Smoke hovers over the battleship Texas as the vessel shells German shore batteries on the French invasion coast. The navy revealed that the ship engaged in a duel with German shore batteries at Cherbourg on August 13, 1944, pressing home its attack despite two direct hits sustained. (AP Photo)
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A U.S. landing barge loaded with American troops and vehicles, moves steadily across the English Channel for France on July 31, 1944, part of the great allied Armada which constantly supplies fighting forces in France with men and equipment. (AP Photo)
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A United States vehicle is hoisted aboard a transport for the fighting front in France on July 18, 1944. The point of embarkation is a military secret. (AP Photo)
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Crews of small craft liming up on the L.B.K. - Landing Barge Kitchen - for a hot meal, while others wait their turn to come along-side in France on June 27, 1944. Many crews of the small assault craft had been days without any hot food as their ships are two small to be fitted with galleys. The L.B.K.’s may be ungainly but they are fitted up entirely with cooking gear and are well stocked with food. (AP Photo)
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A view of the beaches of Normandy of part of the Allied invasion fleet on June 27, 1944. Protective balloons are flying over destroyers and landing craft. (AP Photo)
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The British battleship Rodney bombarding enemy strong points on the French coast on June 27, 1944. A British cruiser and a destroyer can be seen in the background. (AP Photo)
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These American Red Cross club mobiles, trailers and supply trucks are waiting for shipment across the English Channel in England on June 16, 1944, to follow the Allied invasion armies. American Red Cross field men went into France with the military units they served in England, according to official announcement. Their club equipment will follow soon. Field Directors’ jeeps are lined up in the far background. (AP Photo)
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Tank landing ship from a coast Guard Rescue Craft off the French beachhead on June 16, 1944, as she points her bow skyward before sinking after striking a German mine. (AP Photo)
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These tow American landing craft set high and dry on the beach of the Normandy coast of France on June 20, 1944 as unloading operations continue while crewmen await return of the tide to refloat them. Unneeded anchor hanging from stern of craft at left. (AP Photo)
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Following quickly in the wake of invasion craft that landed assault troops on coast of Normandy, France on June 15, 1944, supply ships and craft bring invaluable war weapons and food for troops now fighting inland. (AP Photo)
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Many types of landing craft - including “ducks”, barges, LCTs and LSTs are used to shuttle supplies to a Normandy beachheads on June 10, 1944 for troops fighting their way inland. In the horizon are dozen of transports and overhead are barrage balloons. (AP Photo)
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Soldiers keep warm atop a truck on board on June 12, 1944. (AP Photo)
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View of a beach which was one of the allied objectives on the coast of France on June 9, 1944, showing the masses of men and equipment being landed from the various landing craft lying off-shore. (AP Photo)
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Special service troops (commandos) getting ready for the liberation of Europe and embarking at a coast port. Engineers carry all their own explosives for special assignments in France on June 9, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Assault troops line up for special supplies, including candy and cigarettes, just before moving out from their station in England on June 8, 1944 for the invasion of France. (AP Photo)
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On a beach on the French invasion coast stand defenses of steel and concrete on which some of the allied invasion vehicles have been wrecked on June 7, 1944. (AP Photo)
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One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, a lone U.S. soldier guards a knocked out German gun position on "Utah" Beach, France, May 28, 1945. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)
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The anniversary of D-day, has been declared a holiday for all troops by General Eisenhower, and will be observed in a series of simple ceremonies held on the beaches where British and United States troops landed twelve months ago. The Normandy beaches show little evidence of the mighty struggle which took place there when the Allied invasion forces stormed ashore. Madame Alanche Chapelle, and her daughter, Helene Chapelle kneeling in the war cemetery behind the invasion beaches in France on June 6, 1945, to pay homage to the Allied soldiers who died on the invasion beaches. (AP Photo)
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One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the area around a former German pill box at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near "Omaha" Beach, May 28, 1945. The pill box, with a knocked out gun still visible, will be made into a monument dedicated to U.S. assault forces. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)
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One year after the D-Day landings in Normandy, German prisoners landscape the first U.S. cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, near "Omaha" Beach, May 28, 1945. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)
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Result of a northeasterly gale which swept the beach-head in Normandy, France, during the June invasion causing considerable damage to invasion craft lying off shore on Oct. 25, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Result of a northeasterly gale which swept the beach-head in Normandy, France, during the June invasion causing considerable damage to invasion craft lying off shore on Oct. 25, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Ships of many classes lie beached and grounded at the Normandy beachhead, France shown Oct. 22, 1944, after a violent storm struck the “artificial harbor” installations soon after D-Day in June of this year. (AP Photo)
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Ships of many classes lie beached and grounded at the Normandy beachhead in France shown Oct. 22, 1944, after a violent storm struck the “artificial harbor” installations soon after D-Day in June of this year. (AP Photo)
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Loaded Coast Guard and Navy-Manned invasion craft crowd the waters off the Normandy Beach on July 17, 1944 to pour in troops, fighting equipment and supplies for the Allied conquest of the Cherbourg Penninsular. Barrage balloons are suspended above the ships to protect them from low-flying enemy strafing attacks. (AP Photo)
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Out of the massive jaws of a U.S. Coast Guard-manned (LST) rolls a string of railroad cars, loaded with vital war supplies in England on Sept. 21, 1944, and delivered in France. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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The “Grand Old Lady” of the British Navy, H.M.S. Warspite, hurling shells on enemy gun positions in the Caen area on June 27, 1944. The Warspite, veteran of the Battle of Jutland in the last war and of Narvik, Crete, Matapan and Salerno in this war, hurled her 15-inch shells at targets near Caen. A British Fleet Air Arm pilot in a Seafire fighter over the beachhead spotted six German armoured cars hidden behind a hedgerow near Caen, menacing our airborne troops. He directed the fire of H.M.S. Warspite onto this target and set the enemy plunging to the south. The pilot followed and saw them join fifty more German armoured cars. He re-directed Warspite’s fire, which landed three 15-inch shells, breaking up most of the group and scattering the rest. (AP Photo)
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American doughboys crowd the deck of Allied ship en Route across the English Channel from England to France to reinforce Yank units battling the Germans back on the Normandy Front on July 13, 1944. (AP Photo)
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American reinforcements, eager for their shot at the retreating Nazis in Normandy, pile from a coast guard landing barge into the surf on the French Coast on June 23, 1944. Hardened for battle, they are going in to reinforce and replace the fighting units that secured the Norman beachhead and spread north toward Cherbourg. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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The British Navy’s famous monitor H.M.S. Roberts which supported the Allied landings at Salerno on June 27, 1944, carrying on off the Normandy coast the job she knows so well - bombarding the enemy in support of the Army. (AP Photo)
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American reinforcements in an LCT (foreground) head for the French Normandy coast on June 16, 1944, under cover of the big guns of a U.S. battleship which blasts away at German targets. (AP Photo/Bede Irvin)
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Work horse of the unloading of an Army Sea Bee. These Rhinos (Ferries) bring huge loads ashore from the big ships lying off the shore on June 19, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Down the gangway of an LCI of the Royal Canadian navy, troops from Canada scramble into the surf near a town on the coast of Normandy on June 12, 1944 with their bicycles in the invasion of Europe. (AP Photo)
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While the landing craft dot the water as they head in for the shore in France, gunfire from Allied naval units pounds the Germans’ coastal defenses on June 13, 1944. Under this protective covering the invasion landings were effected with a minimum loss, and a beachhead was established. (AP Photo)
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Down the gangway of an LCI of the Royal Canadian Navy, troops from Canada scramble into the surf near a town on the coast of Normandy on June 12, 1944 with their bicycles in the invasion of Europe. (AP Photo)
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Yank soldiers huddle to keep warm enroute to D-Day invasion of France on June 12, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Ebbing tide on a French beach reveals a long stretch of skeleton obstruction erected by the Nazis on June 12, 1944. At high tide the water veils these structures, making them a menace to ships’ bottoms, and even periling shallow-draft landing craft. In the foreground are wrecked Allied vehicles. (AP Photo)
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U.S. assault troops, laden with equipment, wade through the surf to a Normandy beach from landing craft in June 1944 to support those who had gone before in the D-Day assault. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft of all types head through a choppy sea for the invasion beachhead along the coast of Normandy, during the allied landings on June 10, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Two American soldiers rest against cliff on the beach of the Normandy coast of France on June 9, 1944 after ordeal of landing. Man at right is wrapped in blanket and soldier at left stretches out beside inflated life belt he apparently wore in making his way to shore. (AP Photo/U.S. Signal Corps)
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U.S. assault troops, laden with equipment, wade through the surf to a Normandy beach from landing craft in June 1944 to support those who had gone before in the D-Day assault. (AP Photo)
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Allied soldiers duck and make a run for the beach, followed by jeeps, as the invading forces are disgorged from transports along the French coast on June 9, 1944. The shore is already peppered with jeeps and troops which have already landed. American beachhead forces have linked with the yank airborne troops to cut a 29-mile wedge in the Cotentin Peninsula and consolidate themselves for the smash toward Cherbourg, key port in France. (AP Photo/Bert Brandt)
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Assault troops line up for special supplies including candy and cigarettes, just before moving out from their station in England on June 9, 1944 for the invasion of France. (AP Photo)
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Beneath an air screen of barrage balloons, British tanks and equipment are unloaded from landing craft on beach of Normandy coast of France on June 9, 1944 for use in second phase of invasion, the repelling of anticipated counterattacks in force by the enemy. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)
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Troops on Utah Beach in Normandy, France on June 9, 1944, take shelter behind a sea wall while awaiting orders to move inland during the invasion by allied troops in June 1944. (AP Photo)
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The nose of a German machine gun points through a barbed wire festooned concrete emplacement on the invasion coast of France, silenced by the Allies in their beachhead operations on June 8, 1944. Allied soldiers gather below it. (AP Photo/U.S. Signal Corps)
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Part of the giant armada of 4,000 which massed off the coast of France near the Normandy shore (upper right) on June 9, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Standing behind the protective cover of their landing craft bow door, American assault troops near a beachhead on the Normandy coast of France for the opening of the invasion of Fortress Europe on June 8, 1944. Smoke in left background is from supporting fire from naval ships standing off in the channel. (AP Photo)
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Balloons are inflated within a few yards of the craft in France on June 7, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Allied tanks in a line on a beach on the Norman coast fire inland against German defenses as cover for assault troops moving ashore from landing craft, in the invasion on June 7, 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. Signal Corps)
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Out of the open bow doors of a landing craft, American men and jeeps pour ashore on the beach of the Normandy coast of France on June 6, 1944, for the opening of the second front invasion of Europe. Allied troops, carried across the channel from England in an armada of 4000 ships, have established a 100-mile front along the coast. (AP Photo/U.S. Signal Corps)
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A big U.S. army field kitchen is rolled up the open bow of an LST (Landing Ship, Tanks), during loading operations at an English invasion Port on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Members of an American armored unit at a Marshalling are “somewhere in England” on June 6, 1944, are briefed by their commanding officer prior to receiving their “D-Day” assignments. (AP Photo)
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Beneath an air screen of barrage balloons, British tanks and equipment are unloaded from landing craft on beach of Normandy coast of France on June 6, 1944 for use in second phase of invasion the repelling of anticipated counterattacks in force by the enemy. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)
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Under the white ensign of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, left, Allied naval commander-in-chief, watches the invasion fleet en route to France on June 6, 1944 from the bridge of a motor torpedo boat. (AP Photo)
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An American infantryman receives his rations of candy and cigarettes, somewhere in England on June 6, 1944, before embarking with other troops for the assault on the French coast, to open the long-awaited second front invasion. (AP Photo)
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Allied landings craft of unidentified type, right, burns just off the shore somewhere on the north coast of France on June 6, 1944 during the invasion of Fortress Europe. (AP Photo)
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Fully equipped, and each carrying large amounts of ammunition, American troops climb aboard a landing craft somewhere in England on June 6, 1944 for the cross-channel invasion of France. Other landing craft are seeing in background. (AP Photo)
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The 15-inch guns of warspite shelling German invasion coast positions on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Crewmen maintain an alert at their gun stations on five-inch weapons aboard an invasion craft, one of the huge armada which carried Allied forces to the French Coast for the long-awaited assault on fortress Europe on June 6, 1944. Manning the gun in foreground is Boatswain’s Mate 1/C Ferrell Browening of Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo)
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A Coat Guard LCI, listing to port, pulls alongside a transport ship to evacuate her troops and wounded just before the craft capsized and sank during first invasion day on June 6, 1944. Helmeted troops, with full packs, are al to starboard side. Other ships of the huge flotilla that participated in the assault on the Normandy coast of France are in background. (AP Photo)
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Men, barges, landing craft and assault vehicles storm ashore on a beach in France on D-Day on June 6, 1944. The Allied forces in action during the invasion of the European continent. (AP Photo)
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Airborne troops prepare for the descent on Europe on June 6th. Line-up of parachute dropping stirlings (aircraft) ranged either side of the runway on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft loaded for invasion assault LCT’s are loaded with half tracks and other armored vehicles by American Troops, at an Embarkation point in England on June 6, 1944 just before they set sail for the D-day invasion of the French coast. (AP Photo)
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American troops embarking in landing craft at a British port on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo)
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Waiting somewhere in England on June 5, 1944 are these Allied soldiers and their armored vehicles, filling this narrow, tree-lined road with mechanisms of war as they ready themselves and their equipment for the invasion of Europe. (AP Photo)
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Landing craft, escorted by ships of the Royal Navy, sail to the Great Assault on June 5, 1944 the guns of H.M. ship are at the ready. In the background, between two landing craft, a supply ship is flying the balloon which she has already carried on many coastal convoys. (AP Photo)
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Pvt. Ernest Barker, right, of Eastland, Texas, carries his guitar as he leaves a British port with reinforcements for the Allied beachhead in France in June 1944. (AP Photo)
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The first landings were made in France by the Airborne Forces. The whole Operations planned to take place with great precision were the result of many months of careful training. The men are seen making last minute preparations, etc., before emplaning. Paratroops sitting with their kits ready for emplaning in June 1944. They have a Union Jack which will be one of the first to be planted on French soil by our forces. (AP Photo)
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Lieut. Commander D.W. Pifers, D.S.C., R.C.N., of Halifax, commanding Officer of H.M.C.S. “Algonquin,” one of Canada’s newest most powerful destroyers, briefs his ship’s company, while on route to the invasion beachhead in 1944. (AP Photo)
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Pair of landing craft hit Utah Beach in Normandy, France, June 1944. (AP Photo)
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U.S. assault troops, laden with equipment, wade through the surf to a Normandy beach from landing craft in June 1944 to support those who had gone before in the D-Day assault. (AP Photo)
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Protected from strafing Nazi planes by barrage balloons, a Coast Guard tank landing ship, left, passes a lead of mechanized fighting vehicles to the flat top of a Rhino” in the English Channel during the height of the invasion of the French Coast in an undated photo. The “rhinos” slogged through the surf to unload their cargos on the beech. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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Barrage balloons float overhead as protection against dive-bombers attacks in June 1944, part of a giant allied task force moves across the English Channel in France, to hit the French coast on D-Day. (AP Photo)
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The Colonel (unidentified) gives last minute instructions to some of the men in 1944. British Commandos on the way to France. (AP Photo)
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