Photos Taken in Normandy | World War II Database

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A Jeep full of US 101st Airborne paratroopers at a Normandy check-point, Jun 1944. Note Horsa gliders in the background and a box of full M1 Garand ammunition clips in the immediate foreground behind the MP’s leg.	CG-4A glider making a training landing at Beuzeville Airfield, Sainte-Mère-Église, France, Jun 1944; note invasion stripes.

US Pilots of 380th Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter Group with P-51D Mustang 'Fools Paradise IV' at Maupertus Airfield, Cherbourg, France, Jul-Aug 1944; note Jeep and CCKW fuel truck	Canadian troops at the L'église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Bernières-sur-Mer, near Juno Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

LCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Samuel Chase approaching Omaha Beach. The boat is smoking from a fire that resulted when a German machine gun bullet hit a soldier’s hand grenade.	LCVP landing craft from LST-284 off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944. LCI(L)-321 is in the background.

Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	Men of Canadian 9th Infantry Brigade disembarking from LCI(L) landing craft onto Nan White Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, Normandy, France, late morning 6 Jun 1944; note many with bicycles. Photo 1 of 2.

Minesweeper USS Tide with her back broken and sinking after triggering a magnetic mine off Utah Beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944.	General Sir Bernard Montgomery, 21st Army Group Commander, steps onto Juno Beach, Mike Red area, Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, France 8 Jun 1945 after being ferried ashore from his ship in a DUKW.

Reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland at Omaha Beach, Normandy, 8 Jun 1944	Shortly after arriving in Normandy, France, General Bernard Montgomery’s Jeep stopped so he could examine German prisoners being marched toward the beach, 8 Jun 1944.

An M4 Sherman tank of the British 13th/18th Royal Hussars in action against German troops while passing a crashed Horsa glider near Ranville, France, 10 Jun 1944.	General Bernard Montgomery on a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.

General Bernard Montgomery standing up in his 1943 Humber Super Snipe staff car during a trip to inspect port facilities at Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.	Generals Bernard Montgomery, Miles Dempsey, and Omar Bradley at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.

Generals Omar Bradley and Miles Dempsey at a meeting in the field in Port-en-Bessin, France during the Normandy campaign, 10 Jun 1944.	Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle.

A fully loaded DUKW coming ashore at Normandy, France, 11 Jun 1944.	Member of the US Navy’s Second Beach Battalion examining a German SdKfz 302 Goliath remote-controlled mine (called Beetles by US forces) on Utah Beach, 11 June 1944. Note DUKW in the background.