50+ Stunning Color Photos Of D-Day That Show Historic Invasion During WWII

#1 US Army band leading a procession during birthday celebrations honoring William Shakespeare.

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#2 British Airborne Pathfinders check their watches on the night before the invasion.

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#3 Members of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division attend a briefing ahead of the D-Day invasion.

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#4 An American corporal stacks cans of gasoline in preparation for the upcoming invasion of France, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

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#5 A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. To the right is another LCVP.

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#6 Oxford Street in London shortly before the launching of the D-Day invasion of France during WWII.

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#7 American combat engineer soldiers eating meals atop boxes of ammunition being stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion of France.

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#8 Ammunition stockpiled in the town square for the impending D-Day invasion of France.

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#9 Ammunition stored in the town square shortly before D-Day.

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#10 The astonishing scale of the invasion can be seen in this image taken of the American forces arriving on Utah Beach.

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#11 U.S. troops from the USS Joseph T. Dickman wait to disembark from their landing craft as they approach Utah Beach.

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#12 A craft from the USS Samuel Chase lands troops of the US Army First Division on Omaha Beach.

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#13 Glider pilots take the opportunity for a quick cigarette as they are crowded onto a landing craft.

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#14 Royal Marines descend from landing craft with their heavy backpacks, weapons and equipment on Juno beach.

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#15 American troops arrive on a Normandy beach in a lengthy procession from their landing crafts.

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#16 British troops show their true grit as they help injured comrades onto Sword Beach.

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#17 US Army Fourth Infantry Division troops take a breather after making their way onto Utah Red Beach.

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#18 Reinforcements arrive by sea to bolster U.S. troop numbers on the Normandy front.

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#19 The USS LST-21, manned by the U.S. coastguard unloads British Army tanks and trucks onto a Rhino barge in the opening hours of their invasion of Gold Beach.

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#20 Troops load U.S. LSTs with artillery equipment, vehicles and troops in Brixham, England before they head for Normandy.

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#21 Nazi General Erwin Rommel inspects defences ahead of D-Day. On the actual day of the invasion he was away from the front celebrating his wife’s birthday.

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#22 German troops camouflage a Panzer VI Tiger tank with undergrowth in the Normandy village of Villers-Bocage.

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#23 Troops establish a radio communications post after landing.

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#24 An American tank crew takes a breather on the way through the town of Avranches, Normandy

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#25 Troops searching ruined homes in western France after D-Day.

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#26 View of the ruins of the Palais de Justice in the town of St. Lo, France.

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#27 From D-Day until Christmas 1944, German prisoners of war were shipped off to American detention facilities at a rate of 30,000 per month. Above: Captured German troops, June 1944

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#28 A P-38 fighter plane sits in the background as the pilot arrives in a captured German vehicle, France

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#29 Life after the French capital was liberated in August 1944.

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#30 Free French General and military governor of the French capital Pierre Koenig, left, pictured during ceremonies held the day after the liberation of Paris, August 1944

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#31 View of American troops as they board an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), Weymouth, England, early June, 1944.

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#32 Operation Overlord Normandy, Private Clyde Peacock, 1st Military Police (MP) Platoon of the 1st Infantry Division of the United. States Army.

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#33 Operation Overlord Normandy, United States Army troops train for bomb squad and safety proceedings in preparation of the invasion of Normandy, France.

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#34 Operation Overlord Normandy, Soldiers of the United States Army are boarding a Landing Craft Transport (LCT) in Southern England.

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#35 US troops on the Esplanade at Weymouth, Dorset, on their way to embark on ships bound for Omaha Beach for the D-Day landings in Normandy, June 1944.

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#36 Operation Overlord Normandy, United States Army soldiers are sitting on top of several M4 half-track armored personal carriers.

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#37 Operation Overlord Normandy, United States Army troops train in the English countryside in preparation of the invasion of Normandy, France.

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#38 In England, American soldiers, having loaded their equipment and supplies onto an LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) await the signal to begin the D-Day invasion.

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#39 Planes of the 344th Bomb Group, which led the IX Bomber Command formations on D-Day.

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#40 United States Rangers from E Company, 5th Ranger Battalion, on board a landing craft assault vessel (LCA) in Weymouth harbour, Dorset.

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#41 United States Army First Infantry Division disembarking from an LCVP (landing craft) onto Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings on D Day

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#42 Operation Overlord – On a pebble beach at Omaha Beach U.S. soldiers deal with injuries.

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#43 Allied troops exiting a landing craft in trucks on a beachhead during the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.

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#44 US troops travel the English Channel on a barge en route to Normandy, France for the D-Day Invasion.

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#45 UTAH BEACH, FRANCE: US soldiers gather around trucks disembarking from landing crafts shortly after D-Day.

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#46 Operation Overlord Normandy, German Prisoners of War (POW) have been put behind barbed wire on Omaha Beach.

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#47 American troops with German prisoners of war on board a Liberty ship in the English Channel during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

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#48 Operation Overlord Normandy, The Saskatchewan Regiment of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division is landing at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernieres-sur-Mer on D-Day.

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#49 Operation Overlord Normandy, Three American soldiers from the 1st Engineer Special Brigade are looking at photos from home.

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#50 A Canadian soldier directs traffic in front of the Notre-Dame Nativity church, in Bernieres-sur-Mer.

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#51 Operation Overlord Normandy, Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division are trying to set up an anti-aircraft gun.

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#52 Operation Overlord Normandy, Two American soldiers are watching two United States Army jeeps driving through the ruins of the center of Saint-Lo.

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#53 Operation Overlord Normandy, Two children are watching an American Army jeep driving through the ruins of Saint-Lo.

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#54 Operation Overlord Normandy, A United States truck is entering a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) in a port in Southern England.

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#55 American troops load onto LSIs at a port in Britain where barrage balloons have been anchored for protection against strafing and low level bombings.

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#56 These American troops are marching through the streets of a British port town on their way to the docks where they will be loaded into landing craft for the big assault.

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#57 Jeeps being driven into the open doors of an LCT at a port in Britain in preparation for D-Day.

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#58 Men and equipment are massed together in landing craft in preparation for the big assault on the European continent. England.

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#59 American troops at a British port descend into barges which will take them to troop ships from which they will launch the attack against Hitler’s Fortress Europe.

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#60 Medics and litter bearers going up the ramp of an LCT which will take them to France for the assault against Hitler’s Europe.

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#61 American infantrymen marching in an unident. park in England shortly before D-Day.

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