40 Rare Photos Showing What D-Day Was Really Like

Published on 09/01/2021
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Boarding

Soldiers from the United States take to the streets through a southern English coastal town on their way to board landing ships for the invasion of France in late May or early June 1944.

Boarding

Boarding

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English Port

As a result, the Allies opted to invade Europe along the Normandy coast, between Le Havre and Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula, rather than across the English Channel. In the portrait, jeeps are being loaded onto a landing craft, while in the background, larger trucks and ducks are being loaded, in June 1944. This is a general view of an English port.

English Port

English Port

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