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D-Day: Historical photos of Americans storming Normandy beaches

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U.S. infantrymen wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies’ June 1944, D-Day invasion of occupied France.
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A first wave beach battalion Ducks lays low under the fire of Nazi guns on the beach of southern France on D-Day, June 6, 1944 during World War II. One invader operates a walkie talkie radio directing other landing craft to the safest spots for unloading their parties of fighting men.
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In this June 6, 1944 file photo, members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte- Mere-Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses.
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In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944.
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Ducks (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during the invasion of Normandy on a 100-mile front along the French coast by allied forces on June 6, 1944.
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Ducks (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during the World War II opening invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast by Allied forces on June 6, 1944.
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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.
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U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf from a landing craft in the days following D-Day and the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Normandy in June 1944 during World War II.
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U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies’ June 1944, D-Day invasion of occupied France.
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Bouncing about on the rough waters of the Channel, these landing craft loaded with assault troops head for the shore of the French coast early in the dawn of D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Under the cover of naval shell fire, American infantrymen wade ashore from their landing craft during the initial Normandy landing operations in France, June 6, 1944.
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Men and assault vehicles storm the Normandy Beach of France, as allied landing craft arrive at their destination on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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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.
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The first amphibious transport “Ducks” move in to land men and supplies on a French beach at Normandy, June 7, 1944.
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German prisoners of war are led away by Allied forces from Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, on June 6, 1944, during landing operations at the Normandy coast, France.
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With a searchlight beam piercing through the night, a machine gunner and a rifleman are on alert as the British Canadian offensive drive continues, in July 1944, south of Caen, in the Normandy region of France.

On June 6, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.

The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity.

Over 156,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, including over 73,00 American, 61,000 British and 21,000 Canadian forces, according to the Department of Defense.

Above, scroll through historical photos from the day.

Related:
• Normandy marks D-Day's 79th anniversary, honors WWII veterans
• From 2019: Western Pennsylvanians look back on D-Day 75 years later

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