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Troops go ashore during training exercises for the Allied D-Day invasion. This photo was captured earlier in 1943.![A sign is depicted saying: "Invasion Day: Come in and pray for allied victory - hourly intercessions on the hour."]()
A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to "come in and pray for Allied victory" in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.![War ships and blimps carrying soldier travel to Normandy, France]()
Ships and blimps sit off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.![American flag waves through air as war ships sail to Normandy.]()
Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day.![American servicemen huddle on D-Day war ship.]()
U.S. servicemen attend a service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France.![General Dwight Eisenhower assigns orders to paratroopers on D-Day]()
General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of Europe.![D-Day soldiers storm Normandy beach]()
Normandy landings begin as American soldiers leave a barge under fire in World War II, June 6, 1944.![Hundreds of paratroopers pictured in the water as they storm Normandy]()
Hundreds of American paratroopers drop into Normandy, France, on D-Day.![A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.]()
A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.![Plane flies over Cherbourg peninsula]()
An A-20 Havoc of the 9th US Air Force rears in at a low altitude to blast enemy supply lines on the Cherbourg peninsula, June 1944.![Soldiers carry troop onto beach during D-Day]()
Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion.![Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England]()
(L-R) Journalists Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England on June 6, 1944.![D-Day forces enter the water from docked war ships]()
Reinforcements disembark from a landing barge in Normandy during the Allied Invasion of France on D-Day.![American assault troops receive medical aid in Normandy while they rest.]()
A group of American assault troops of the 3rd Bat., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Infantry Div., having gained the comparative safety offered by the chalk cliff at their backs, take a breather before moving inland. Medics who landed with them on D-Day treated them for minor injuries at Collville-Sur-Mer, Normandy.![Soldiers on the mortar crew prepare to fire at enemies during D-Day invasion.]()
A mortar crew stands back just before firing into a Nazi position somewhere along the Normandy coast of France.![A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France]()
A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944.![Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach]()
Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944.![US Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy]()
U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.![US troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day]()
U.S. troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day on June 6, 1944.![The Allied Naval forces engages in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm the Normandy beaches]()
The Allied Naval forces engage in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm Normandy's beaches on D-Day.World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II.
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