40 Rare Photos Showing What D-Day Was Really Like

Published on 09/01/2021
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11. Eating Time

Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great have differed from the well-known adage “An army marches on its belly.” Whoever said that knew what they talked about first. And here, around chow time, we see several G.I.S. on a landing ship going to the beaches of Normandy. The possibility of armed fighting does not look as though its appetite was ruined.

11. Eating Time

11. Eating Time

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10. Street fighting in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer

Struggling amid the rubble of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, those troops in the North Shore Regime, in the third Canadian infantry division. The heavily fortified city was part of the D-Day operations in the Juno Beach area. The unit experienced severe battles — 124 losses, 34 murders included.

10. Street Fighting In Saint Aubin Sur Mer

10. Street Fighting In Saint Aubin Sur Mer

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