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British troops taking shelter near a M10 Wolverine tank destroyer, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	British Universal Carriers with deep wading screens and a Churchill AVRE tank passing through La Breche, France, 6 Jun 1944

Canadian infantrymen aboard a landing craft launched from HMCS Prince Henry, off Normandy beach, France, 6 Jun 1944	Canadian soldiers on Juno Beach, Bernières-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

Canadian troops at the L'église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité in Bernières-sur-Mer, near Juno Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	Canadian troops waiting in ditches with their bicycles as men of the UK 48th Royal Marine Commando took cover from mortar fire on the road side near St Aubin Sur Mer, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

Canadians guarding captured German troops, Berniers Sur Mer, France, 6 Jun 1944; note Sten gun	Commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade, British 2nd Army landing on 'Queen Red' sector of Sword Beach, la Breche, Normandy, France, at 0840 on 6 Jun 1944

Crash-landed Allied Horsa Mk I glider near Hiesville, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	Crews examine flak damage to B-17G Fortress at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. Damage sustained on mission to Munich, Germany, Jul 6 1944. Note "Mickey" pathfinder radar dome in place of ball turret.

Dead American soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach in Normandy, 6 Jun 1944	Fire further inland from the Juno Beach landing area, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

German prisoners awaiting transfer at the beaches of Normandie, France, 6 Jun 1944; note disabled Sherman Crab flail tank in background	German prisoners of war in a barbed-wire enclosure on Utah Beach, Normandy, 6 Jun 1944; note M4 Sherman tank 'Delphia' and stranded LCT-855 in background

Hamilcar gliders of 6th Airlanding Brigade carrying light armored vehicles coming into landing near Ranville, France, afternoon of 6 Jun 1944; note gliders' steep angle of approach.	Injured men of the US 16th Infantry Regiment waited by the Chalk Cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for further medical treatment, Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, 6 Jun 1944

LCI(L), LCM and LCVP landing craft approached Omaha Beach, Normandy, 6 Jun 1944	LCI(L)-490 and LCI(L)-496 approached Omaha Beach, Normandy, 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.