D-Day in Color, Photographs from the Normandy Invasion

4. D-Day in Color, Photographs from the Normandy Invasion

5. Original color photographs of the D-Day invasion of Normandy during
World War II.
From British and American soldiers preparing for the invasion in
England to German prisoners being marched through the streets after
France’s liberation, these images are some of the only color
photographs taken during the war.

6. British Navy Landing Crafts (LCA-1377) carry United States Army Rangers to a ship near Weymouth in Southern England on June 1, 1944. British soldiers can be seen in the
conning station. For safety measures, U.S. Rangers remained consigned on board English ships for five days prior to the invasionof Normandy, France. (Photo by Galerie
Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

7. U.S. troops on the Esplanade at Weymouth, Dorset, on their way to ships bound for Omaha Beach for the D-Day landings in Normandyin June of 1944. (Photo by Galerie
Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

8. Operation Overlord Normandy, A United States Army ambulance jeep is entering a Landing Craft Transport (LCT) in a port in Southern England. June 1944. The ship and will
depart for Normandy, France. United Kingdom. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

9. Landing Ship Tank (LST-357) loading an ambulance at Portland Harbour, Dorset, before the D-Day landings, 5th June 1944. It will soon depart to participate in the cross channel
invasion of Omaha Beach in Normandy. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

10. OperationOverlordNormandy,Soldiersofthe1stInfantryDivisionoftheUnitedStatesArmyhaveboardedtheLandingCraftTransport(LCT)namedëChannelFeverí)in
SouthernEngland.5thJune1944.TheyarereadyforthelandinginFrance.The1stDivisionwasoneofthetwodivisionsthatstormedOmahaBeachinNormandy,Franceon
D-Daysufferinghighcasualties.Dorset,UnitedKingdom.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

11. UnitedStatesRangersfromECompany,5thRangerBattalion,onboardalandingcraftassaultvessel(LCA)inWeymouthharbor,Dorset,onJune4,1944.Theshipisboundfor
theD-DaylandingonOmahaBeachinNormandy.Clockwise,fromfarleft:FirstSergeantSandyMartin,whowaskilledduringthelanding,TechnicianFifthGradeJoseph
Markovich,CorporalJohnLoshiavoandPrivateFirstClassFrankE.Lockwood.Theyareholdinga60mmmortar,aBazooka,aGarandrifleandapackofLuckyStrikecigarettes.
(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

12. Trucksofthe1stInfantryDivisionoftheUnitedStatesArmyareloadedintoaLandingShipTank(LST)inDorset,UnitedKingdom,onJune5th,1944.TheLSTformspartof
Group30oftheLSTFlotilla.The1stDivisionwasoneofthetwodivisionsthatstormedOmahaBeachinNormandy,FranceonD-Daysufferinghighcasualties.Itsecured
FormignyandCaumontinthebeachhead.D-Dayisstilloneoftheworld'smostgut-wrenchingandconsequentialbattles,astheAlliedlandinginNormandyledtotheliberation
ofFrancewhichmarkedtheturningpointintheWesterntheaterofWorldWarII.(AFPPHOTO/GettyImages)

13. The1stInfantryDivisionoftheUnitedStatesArmy
(The'BigRedOne')inDorset,UnitedKingdomon
June5,1944beforedepartingforOmahaBeach.
(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

14. A U.S. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) filled with invasion troops approaches the French coast from the sea in June of 1944. TheGIs wear life vests in preparation for the landing.
(Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

15. Operation Overlord, Vessels are waiting for the start of D-Day operations in an English port of embarkation. 4th June 1944. USS LST-314 (center) departed English waters as part
of the second wave on 6th June. 9th June, it was torpedoed by a German E-boat and sank off the coast of Normandy. Great Britain.(Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

16. BoatsfullofUnitedStatestroopswaitingtoleaveWeymouth,SouthernEngland,totakepartinOperationOverlordinNormandy,June1944.Thislocationwasusedasa
launchingplaceforAlliedtroopsparticipatingintheinvasionofNazi-occupiedFranceonD-Day,6thJune1944.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

17. SomeofthefirstAmericansoldierstoattacktheGermandefensesinHigginsBoats(LCVPs)approachOmahaBeachnearNormandy,FranceonJune6,1944.Plasticcovers
protectthesoldier'sweaponsagainstfromthewater.(PhotobyRobertF.Sargent,U.S.CoastGuard/GalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

18. Planesfromthe344thBombGroup,whichledtheIXBomberCommandformationsonD-DayonJune6,2014.OperationsstartedinMarch1944withattacksontargetsin
German-occupiedFrance,Belgium,andtheNetherlands.AfterthebeginningoftheNormandyinvasion,theGroupwasactiveatCotentinPeninsula,Caen,Saint-Loandthe
FalaiseGap.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

19. PrivateClydePeacock,1stMilitaryPolice(MP)
Platoonofthe1stInfantryDivisionoftheUnited
StatesArmyinJune1944inDorset,United
Kingdom.The1stDivisionwasoneofthetwo
divisionsthatstormedOmahaBeachonD-Day
sufferinghighcasualties.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

20. Troopsfromthe3rdCanadianInfantryDivisionlandingatJunoBeachontheoutskirtsofBernieres-sur-MeronD-Day,June6,1944.14,000Canadiansoldierswereputashore
and340losttheirlivesinthebattlesforthebeachhead.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

21. A general view of the scene on D-Day, WWII, at Normandy Beach, France on June 6, 1944. (Photo by Camerique/Getty Images)

22. An Allied plane crash burns during the fighting in Normandy, France in June of 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

23. Allied ships, boats and barrage balloons off Omaha Beach after the successful D-Day invasion, near Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy,France on June 9, 1944. (Photo by Galerie
Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

24. German Prisoners of War are kept behind barbed wire on Omaha Beach on June 10, 1944. Landing Ship, Tanks can be seen on the beach and barrage balloons in the air for
protection. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

25. Fromleft,ChiefoftheImperialGeneralStaffFieldMarshalSirAlanBrooke,BritishPrimeMinisterWinstonChurchillandcommanderofthe21stArmyGroup,FieldMarshal
BernardMontgomeryinNormandyonJune12,1944,sixdaysaftertheD-DaylandingsduringOperationOverlordNormandyinWorldWarII.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/Getty
Images)

26. TwoAmericansoldierswatchU.S.ArmyjeepsdrivingthroughtheruinsinSaint-LoinAugustof1944.Thetownwasalmosttotallydestroyedby2,000Alliedbomberswhenthey
attackedGermantroopsstationedthereduringOperationOverlordNormandyinJune.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

27. eeps and other U. S. Army vehicles drive through the ruins of Saint-Lo in August of 1944. The town was almost totally destroyed by 2,000 Allied bombers when they attacked
German troops stationed there during Operation Overlord Normandy in June. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

28. German Prisoners of War are kept behind barbed wire in Normandy, France in June of 1944. More than 200,000 German soldiers were captured during the Battle of Normandy.
(Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

29. Afarmerandhissoninfrontoftheirdamaged
houseduringtheAlliedinvasionofFranceinJulyof
1944.BombingofGermanpositionscaused
damagethroughoutthearea.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

30. SignalCorpsphotographerSergeantFredBornetfilmsatown
inNormandy,FranceinJuneof1944.Fred'Freddy'Bornetwas
borninScheveningen,Holland.FluentinFrench,Englishand
German,hemigratedtotheUnitedStatesin1939asa24year
oldprimarilytoescapeHitler.Hethenbecameamemberofthe
163rdSignalCorpsCompany.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

31. American troops with German prisoners of war on board a Landing Craft Transport (LCT) in June of 1944. The prisoners will be taken to a Liberty Ship in the English Channel
during the Allied invasion of Normandy. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

32. U.S.ArmyMedicstreatingtwoGIsatafirstaid
postinsouthernEnglandin1944.Thesoldiers
areamongthetroopsduetoembarkforthe
invasionofNormandy.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

33. Atruckfromthe1stInfantryDivisionofthe
UnitedStatesArmyisloadedintotheLanding
ShipTankinDorset,UnitedKingdominJune
of1944.TheLSTformspartofGroup30of
theLSTFlotilla.The1stDivisionwasoneof
thetwodivisionsthatstormedOmahaBeach
inNormandy,FranceonD-Daysufferinghigh
casualties.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/Getty
Images)

34. U. S. Army trucks and jeeps from the invasion against the German troops enter a town in Normandy, France in June of 1944. (Photoby Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

35. German Prisoners of War captured during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June of 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

36. GermanPrisonersofWarwhohavearrivedonHMLandingShipTank(LST-165)atGosport,Hampshire,inJuneof1944.ThisisthefirsttransportwithprisonersfromtheAllied
invasionofNormandy.Theywillbeinterrogatedanddistributedtovariouscampsaccordingtotheirclassification.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

37. 1,096GermanPrisonersofWararemarchedthroughthetownofGosport,Hampshire,guardedbyBritishsoldiers,inJuneof1944.TheprisonersarrivedonHMLandingShip
Tank(LST-165),thefirsttransportwithprisonersfromtheAlliedinvasionofNormandy.Theywillbeinterrogatedanddistributedtovariouscampsaccordingtotheirclassification.
(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

38. Two U. S. Army trucks and two American jeeps are driving through the ruins of Saint-Lo in August of 1944. The town was almost totally destroyed by 2,000 Allied bombers when
they attacked German troops stationed there during Operation Overlord Normandy in June. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

39. TwochildrenwatchanAmericanArmyjeepdriving
throughtheruinsofSaint-LoinAugustof1944.Thetown
wasalmosttotallydestroyedby2,000Alliedbombers
whentheyattackedGermantroopsstationedthereduring
OperationOverlordNormandyinJune.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

40. Operation Overlord Normandy, Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division are on patrol near Juno Beach where they landed on D-Day on the outskirts of Bernieres-sur-Mer.
6th June 1944. 14,000 Canadians were put ashore and 340 lost their live in the battles for the beachhead. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

41. OperationOverlordNormandy,UnitedStates
RangershaveboardedaLandingCraftAssault
(LCA)inaportinSouthernEngland.5thJune1944.
Theyareholdinga60mmmortar,aBazooka,a
GarandrifleandapackofLuckyStrikecigarettes.
TheshipandwilldepartforOmahaBeach,
Normandy,France.UnitedKingdom(Photoby
GalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

42. OperationOverlordNormandy,AUnited
StatestruckisenteringaLandingCraftTank
(LCT)inaportinSouthernEngland.June
1944.TheshipandwilldepartforOmaha
Beach,Normandy,France.UnitedKingdom.
(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

43. Operation Overlord Normandy, A group of 15 injured soldiers is on the deck of a boat in June 1944. Six nurses are taking careofthem. Coast of Normandy, France. (Photo by
Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

44. Operation Overlord Normandy, Soldiers are checking their assignments in a tent near the port. June 1944. The sign at the entrance says: "Check Rosters Here." They will leave
from here to participate in the invasion of Normandy, France. Weymouth, United Kingdom. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

45. Operation Overlord Normandy, Troops of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division are landing at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernieres-sur-Mer on D-Day. 6th June 1944. 14,000
Canadian soldiers were put ashore and 340 lost their live in the battles for the beachhead. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

46. OperationOverlord,ThreeAmericanGIsare
playingdartinacampneartheirportof
embarkationinthesouthofEngland.June1944.
TheD-Dayinvasionfleetconsistedof5,000ships
carrying170,000assaulttroops.GreatBritain.
(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

47. OperationOverlordNormandy,AnAmericanambulance,ajeepandothervehiclesaredrivingthroughtheruinsofSaint-Lo.August1944.Thetownwasalmosttotallydestroyed
by2,000AlliedbomberswhentheyattackedGermantroopsstationedthereduringOperationOverlordinJune.France.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

48. OperationOverlordNormandy,ThreeAmericansoldiers
fromthe1stEngineerSpecialBrigadearelookingat
photosfromhome.June1944.LandingShipsTank
(LST)andothervesselsareonthebeachatOmaha
andbarrageballoonsareupintheairforprotection.
France.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

49. BoardingshipsinearlyJune1944-Operation
Overlord.EmbarkingontheLST-134aGMC
truckwithatypeHO/HQ-17shelter
ItwouldlandunitsonOmahaBeachonJune6,
1944.(PhotobyGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

50. OperationOverlordNormandy,Acatholicnunandtwo
younggirlsarestandinginfrontoftheruinsofthe
bombedEgliseSaint-MaloinValognes,Brittany.July
1944.ThetownwasbadlydamagedduringtheAllied
driveonCherbourginJune.France.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

51. Operation Overlord Normandy, Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division have set up anti-aircraft guns on Juno Beach where they landed on D-Day on the outskirts of
Bernieres-sur-Mer. 6th June 1944. German Luftwaffe war planes are still active in the area. 14,000 Canadian soldiers were put ashore and 340 lost their live in the battles for the
beachhead. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

52. OperationOverlordNormandy,Soldiersofthe3rd
CanadianInfantryDivisionaretryingtosetupan
anti-aircraftgun.June1944.Theemplacementis
nearJunoBeach.GermanLuftwaffewarplanesare
stillactiveinthearea.14,000Canadiansoldiers
wereputashoreand340losttheirliveinthebattles
forthebeachhead.France.(PhotobyGalerie
Bilderwelt/GettyImages)

53. OperationOverlordNormandy,FourAllied
soldiersarelookingatamapinthecenterofa
towninNormandy.June1944.TwoFrench
policemenarealsolooking.France.(Photoby
GalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

54. OperationOverlordNormandy,Soldiersofthe3rd
CanadianInfantryDivisionhavesetupamortaron
JunoBeachwheretheylandedonD-Dayonthe
outskirtsofBernieres-sur-Mer.6thJune1944.14,000
Canadianswereputashoreand340losttheirlivein
thebattlesforthebeachhead.France.(Photoby
GalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

55. OperationOverlordNormandy,Aboyandagirlare
standinginthemarketinCherbourg,whichhasrecently
beenliberatedbytheUnitedStatesArmy.July1944.
Morethan10,000Germanprisonershavebeentaken.
2,800Americansoldiersdiedinthebattle.France.(Photo
byGalerieBilderwelt/GettyImages)

56. Operation Overlord Normandy, A street in Cherbourg, which has recently been liberated by the United States Army. July 1944. Two American sailors and a GI are in the street.
More than 10,000 German prisoners have been taken. 2,800 American soldiers died in the battle. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

57. Operation Overlord Normandy, A Canadian soldier is directing traffic in Bernieres-sur-Mer. 6th June 1944. The Canadians landed at Juno Beach which is nearby. 14,000
Canadian soldiers were put ashore and 340 lost their live in the battles for the beachhead. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

58. U. S. Army trucks and jeeps are driving through the ruins of Saint-Lo in July of 1944. A group of American soldiers walks along the street. The town was almost totally destroyed
by 2,000 Allied bombers when they attacked German troops stationed there during Operation Overlord Normandy in June. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

59. Operation Overlord Normandy, The church Notre Dame has been heavily damaged during the attacks on Saint-Lo. August 1944. The town was almost totally destroyed by 2,000
Allied bombers when they attacked German troops stationed there during Operation Overlord in June. France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

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