D Day Collection

D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach
British and Canadian 3rd Division troops land at Juno Beach

D-Day - Landing in France - Omaha Beach
American assault troops prepare to disembark their landing craft as it approaches the beach head, Omaha Beach

D-Day - Supplies pour ashore
A stunning panorama photograph of a French invasion beach with the channel waters thick with US military shipping

D-Day - Assault of American troops
US Assault troops wading ashore

American Cemetery, Omaha Beach
France, Normandy. White crosses at Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Beach

D-Day - Glider reinforcement team
A team of paratroopers amuse themselves whilst awaiting the call to take flight in their glider to back up the initial assault phase on the Normandy coast

U. S. Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolts flying over Omaha beach during the invasion of Normandy
WORLD WAR II: NORMANDY. U.S. Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolts flying over Omaha beach during the invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944. Watercolor by Ogden Pleissner

D-Day - Bomber giving air support to infantry invasion
A B-26 Martin Marauder of the 9th Airforce over the Normandy coast, giving air support to the landing craft on the beaches below

USA S160 2-8-0 locomotive No. 1606 coupled to an ambulance train, 1942
Once the USA joined the war following the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941 the GWR became involved in the provision of rolling stock for use by the American Army

The Cafe Gondree - the first house to be liberated on D Day, June 1944. Normandy, France. The cafe sits beside the Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal Date: 1992

Men of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division being briefed for the invasion. 4th June 1944

The allies have planned their own railroad system to take with them for the forthcoming second front. The construction of this rail system in England has been on of the greatest secrets of this war

Hermanville War Cemetery France
Two small children walk hand in hand past the gravestones of Hermanville War Cemetery, Normandy, France. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

World War II France and Britain commemorate D-Day
Vintage World War II photograph - France and Britain commemorate the first anniversay of the D-Day landings on the beach at Arromanches, Normandy

Landing craft and armoured cars seen at Dartmouth during the preparations for Operation Overlord the invasion of Europe. Circa May 1944

American troops and equipment are loaded on to LST (Landing ship tank) at Dartmouth during preparation for Operation Overlord, invasion of Europe. Circa late May 1944

American half track armoured cars disembarking from LST (Landing ship tank) at Dartmouth during an exercise in the build up to Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe. Circa May 1944

Moreton-in-Marsh US_7GR_LOC349_RP_3041
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucesterhsire. Photographed by the USaF early in 1944, prior to D-Day, with barracks, truck parks and Sherman tanks parked in the main street

Aerial drone photo of Arromanches les Bains in Normandy France. The coastal town has a beautiful beach surrounded by cliffs and its known for D-Day

Aerial drone photo of Arromanches les Bains in Normandy France. The coastal town has a beautiful beach surrounded by cliffs and its known for D-Day

Aerial drone photo of Arromanches les Bains in Normandy France. The coastal town has a beautiful beach surrounded by cliffs and its known for D-Day

A tiny planet aerial view of the magnificent beach at Slapton Sands in Devon, UK

British Front. Transport & Labour : Lorry being landed R
UIG5446802 British Front. Transport & Labour : Lorry being landed R.A.S.C.M.T. Depot, Rouen, May 1918. ©UIG/Leemage by Unknown photographer, (20th century)

Allied landing craft follow airborne troops in the early morning of June 6th

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

A Sherman VC Firefly tank of 24th Lancers, 8th Armoured Brigade, near St Leger, 11 June 1944

Troops of the Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade part of 3rd Division carrying their bicycles ashore from landing craft LCL 299 in the Nan White Sector of Juno Beach shortly after mid-day on D-Day 6th

Military tanks loaded onto Crocodile G wagons, c. 1939
A train load of military tanks, loaded onto Crocodile G wagons, make their way through Acton, en-route to the Channel Ports, for shipment over seas

D-Day Invasion
Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing American troops landing at Normandy on 6 June 1944; a view from a hill top overlooking the sea and American troops marching up the hill

The D-Day Invasion
Black and white photograph of World War II (1939-1945) showing images from the Allied sea invasion of Normandy on D-Day

D-Day embarkation hard 33562_039
Remains of D-Day Embarkation Hard G2, Stokes Bay, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5998

D-Day embarkation hard 33562_035
Remains of D-Day Embarkation Hard G1, Stokes Bay, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5998

D-Day embarkation hard 33562_028
Remains of D-Day Embarkation Hard G2, Stokes Bay, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5998

The Allied landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944, 1944. Creator: Anonymous
The Allied landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944, 1944. Private Collection

General Eisenhower Conferring with Bernard Montgomery
(Original Caption) General Dwight D

French Servicemen Read About D-Day
(Original Caption) 6/6/1944-New York, NY: Scene in the French canteen on New York's Second Avenue this morning when news of the Allied Invasion of Europe broke

Soldiers Reading About D-Day
(Original Caption) 6/6/1944-Jersey City, NJ: Wounded American soldiers who arrived here on the exchange liner Gripsholm, part of the 51 who had been exchanged for German captives

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Laughing
During a meeting in his study with a group of Texas Congressmen, President Roosevelt laughs heartily over one of the legislators jokes

American Soldiers in Foxholes on D-Day
American soldiers wait in foxholes at Utah Beach on D-Day for the order to move inland against German fortifications

Listening to D-Day Broadcast
Military staff at La Guardia Field in New York gather around a radio and listen intently as President Franklin D. Roosevelt prays for the Allied invaders of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Coast Guard Cruisers in English Channel During D-Day
Coast Guard landing craft infantry move across the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of the coast of Normandy

Invaders on Omaha Beach
Allied soldiers crawl on their stomachs past log fortifications on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

American Troops Land at Omaha Beach
Americans from the 1st US Infantry land at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6 1944. Omaha proved to be the toughest of the Normandy beaches to land at; 2, 400 died in the first wave of the invasion

US Troops Take Ste Mere Eglise, Normandy 1944
(Original Caption) 6/14/1944-American troops pass through the streets of Ste. Mere Eglise keeping a sharp lookout for German snipers. D-Day

American Soldiers in Normandy
(Original Caption) 6/14/1944-Normandy, France: Normandy D-Day. A bustling scene as American troops and equipment moves forward constantly to bolster advanced positions inland

Reinforcements Walk Hill; Invasion
(Original Caption) 6/18/1944-Normandy, France: Normandy invasion- reinforcements. D-Day, WWII

Churchill Speaks to D-Day Veterans
(Original Caption) 7/22/1944- Caen, France: Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to some to troops who led the assault on D-Day. General Sir Bernard Montgomery is just visible behind Mr. Churchill

Commander Meeting Son On Train;1St Time
(Original Caption) 12/21/1944-Chicago, IL: Six-month-old Jeffrey Chewning, who was born on H-hour of D-day, as Yank forces were storming the coast of Normandy, greets his daddy

Walter Cronkite And Dwight Eisenhower sit in a jeep overlooking the beaches of Normandy. The two were participating in ceremonies and broadcasts marking the 20th anniversary of D-Day. June 2, 1964

Walter Cronkite and Dwight Eisenhower at Normandy
On the 20th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, former President Dwight D

Headstone of Flight-Lieutenant David Lord, VC
David Lord is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery at Oosterbeek

Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, Lebisey, Normandy
This Memorial to the 2nd Battalion marks the German front line 6 June to 9 July 1944 during the intense fighting for Caen

Museum of Underwater Wrecks Port en Bessin
In 1970 Jaques Lemonchois was asked to clear war wrecks not cleared by the government. The results here include tanks, parts of aeroplanes and torpedos, plus films, photos and documents

Huge underground ammunition depot, Southern Command. (Picture) Storage bays for shells in the completed section of the underground ammunition depot. 23rd November 1943

Two young Blackawton lads helping with the evacuation of the village. Circa November 1943

South Hams Evacuation. On the November the 4th Devon County Council were informed by the War Office that Slapton Sands and the adjourning 30, 000 acres are to be evacuated

Local farmer with his steam tractor engine and threshing machine seen here leaving Slapton at the beginning of the evacuation. Circa November 1943

Locals at Kings Arms Beesands have a final drink before the pub closes for the duration of the evacuation. Circa December 1943

Lease-end entertainment. These British boys on an American ships going to the British beaches were entertained by the yankees during the voyage. 8th June 1944

US soldiers march along the strand in Torquay. June 1944 prior to embarking on ships that will take them to the Normandy beaches. Circa June 1944

This shows the defensive flooding near Carentan. The photo was taken from the air before Allied landings began landings on June 6th. Circa June 1944

Allied Invasion of Normandy during the Second World War. A chaplain taking Sunday service aboard the HMS Scylla shortly after D-Day while she was in anchor, still off the Normandy coast

The deserted villages of the South Devon coast are battle scarred and shattered after the area had been used as a battle field by American forces in extensive invasion training

Hawker Typhoon a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. Seen here armed with armed with four " 60 lb" RP-3 rockets under each wing

Hobarts Funnies were a number of unusually modified tanks operated by the 79th Armoured Division and the Royal Engineers

Features - Stella Rutter who has written a book about her memories of the preparations for D-Day. She is pictured in her home in Emsworth, Hampshire. Stella in a studio photo from Sept. 1939

D Day 50th Anniversary, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. 6th June 1994. Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip

World War Two - Second World War - Joe Carr, from West Moor with his granddaughter, Lindsey Anderson, 5, on the Pegasus Bridge in Normandy, 40 years after Joes participation in the D-Day landings

World War Two - Second World War - Geordie veterans of the D-Day landings were among the old soldiers reliving memories in Normandy

Major John Howard DSO, 1912-1999, who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Benouville and Ranville in Normandy, France, codenamed Operation Deadstick

D-Day embarkation hard 33562_030
Remains of D-Day Embarkation Hard G1, Stokes Bay, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5998

France, Normandy Region, Manche Department, D-Day Beaches Area, WW2-era D-Day invasion Utah Beach, Sainte Marie du Mont, monument to the landing of Free French General LeClerc

France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14)
LUX4801976 France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14), Deauville: landing of a Farman biplane on the beach of Deauville, 1910; (add.info.: France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14)

France, Basse-Normandie, Calvados (14)
LUX4801987 France, Basse-Normandie, Calvados (14), Deauville: landing of a Farman biplane on Deauville beach, close-up, 1910; (add.info.: France, Basse-Normandie, Calvados (14)

France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14)
LUX4801967 France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14), Deauville: landing of a Farman biplane on Deauville beach with a crowd of curious people, 1910; (add.info.: France, Lower Normandy, Calvados (14)

The Battle Seen by a Combatant; H-Hour (5:16 a)
The Battle Seen by a Combatant; H-Hour (5:16 a.m.) of D-Day (October 23): our troops leave under the cover of a curtain of smoke shells; high in the sky, a rocket, 1917

D-Day Beach
George Digalakis

Utah Beach, beach grass, Normandy, France

London shoppers with conversion tables - Decimilisation
London shoppers equipped with conversion tables attempting to fathom the new Decimal currency, during a pre D-Day demonstration. Date: 1970

The first all-decimal shop
Slightly bewildered Croydon lady, getting to grips with Britain's new decimal currency in April 1970, in the first all- Decimal shop in West Croydon

Canadair CC-144 Challenger 144605
Canadian Armed Forces - Canadair CC-144 Challenger 144605 (msn 1008, 601/CL-600-2A12), of 434 Squadron, at the RNAS Yeovilton - D-Day 50th Anniversary Photocall - 4 June 1994. Date: 1994

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"D-Day: The Turning Point in World War II" On June 6, 1944, the fate of Europe hung in the balance as British and Canadian troops stormed Juno Beach. This pivotal moment marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, a daring plan to liberate France from Nazi occupation. Meanwhile, on Omaha Beach, American forces faced fierce resistance but managed to secure a foothold on French soil. As the invasion unfolded, supplies poured ashore to support the advancing troops. Amongst them was a Piper L-4 Cub aircraft adorned with D-Day colors – a symbol of courage and determination. Nearby, at Omaha Beach's American Cemetery, rows upon rows of white crosses stood as solemn reminders of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. Glider reinforcement teams played an essential role in bolstering ground forces during D-Day. Their arrival brought much-needed reinforcements and equipment to aid in overcoming German defenses. In the skies above Omaha beach, bomber planes provided crucial air support to infantry units battling their way inland. The U. S Air Force Republic P-47 Thunderbolts soared over Omaha beach with unwavering resolve. These brave pilots braved enemy fire while providing cover for soldiers below - a testament to their unwavering commitment. Across the English Channel at Queen Beach - Sword Area, British troops landed amidst heavy opposition but pressed forward undeterred by danger or adversity. Simultaneously, American forces launched an assault that would forever change history's course. From a bird's-eye view came an awe-inspiring sight; landing craft filled with allied troops making their way towards Normandy's shores under protective barrage balloons hovering above them like guardians of liberty. In this monumental operation even locomotives had their part to play; USA S160 2-8-0 locomotive No. 1606 coupled itself onto an ambulance train ready to transport wounded soldiers away from harm's reach.