![]() ![]() Some German prisoners are being moved in after capture by the relieving forces. The American flag had been spread out to stop fire of friendly tanks coming from inland. SC 193920" "Photo taken on D+2, after relief forces reached the Rangers at Point Du Hoe. SC190366" "Three Rhino barges and a petrol barge are being hammered by surf somewhere along the coast of France Photographer: Bacon. These survivors reached Omaha Beach, by using a life raft. SC189902" "Members of an American landing party lend helping hands to other members of their organization whose landing craft was sunk be enemy action of the coast of France. Landing craft, in the background, jams the harbor. ![]() Carrying a full equipment, American assault troops move onto Utah Beach on the norther coast of France. The 116th suffered monre than 800 casualties this day - a day which will long be remembered as the beginning of the Allies' 'Great Crusade' to rekindle the lamp of liberty and freedom on the continent of Europe. It was during the movement from Les Moulins that the battered but gallant 2d Battalion broke loose from the beach, clambered over the embankment, and a small party, led by the battalion commander, fought its way to a farmhouse which became its first Command Post in France. In those early hours on the fire-swept beach the 116th Infantry Combat Team, the old Stonewall Brigade of Virginia, clawed its way through Les Moulins draw toward its objective, Vierville-sur-Mer. After long months in England, National Guardsmen from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia found themselves in the vanguard of the Allied attack. The long-awaited liberation of France was underway. But in the first wave of assault troops of the 29th (Blue and Gray) Infantry Division, it was four rifle companies landing on a hostile shore at H-hour, D-Day - 6:30 a.m., on June 6, 1944. SC320901" "LST UNLOADING IN NORMANDY Harrison Standley" "FIRST WAVE AT OMAHA: THE ORDEAL OF THE BLUE AND GRAY Omaha Beach, D-Day, JBehind them was a great invasion armada and the powerful sinews of war. Smoke in the background is Naval gunfire supporting the land. CG 2343" "American assault troops in a landing craft huddle behind the protective front of the craft as it nears a beachhead, on the Northern Coast of France. The Coast Guard caption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. " "OMAHA BEACH France Joseph Gary Sheahan, 1944" "UTAH BEACH France Joseph Gary Sheahan, 1944" "Assault landing. SC194399" "Paratroopers get final instructions before leaving for Normandy. "Full victory - nothing else" to paratroopers in England, just before they board their airplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe. Undated - June 1944" "Gen Dwight D Eisenhower gives the order of the Day. Undated - June 1944." "View of an LCT with American troops and equipment loaded aboard awaiting the signal for the assault against the continent. Undated - June 1944." "American troops load onto landing craft at a port in Britain from where they will shove off for the invasion of Europe on D-Day. Undated - June 1944." "These American troops are marching through the streets of a British port town on their way to the docks where they will be loaded into landing craft for the big assault. Undated - June 1944." "Anti-aircraft halftracks to support initial wave of the assault against Hitler’s Europe begins are being loaded onto an LCT in a British port. Undated - June 1944." "An ambulance being backed into the mouth of an LST in preparation for the big assault against Hitler’s Europe. SC206438" "General view of a port in England in foreground, jeeps are being loaded onto LCTs - in background, larger trucks and ducks are being loaded onto LSTs. "ON THE WAY TO THE ASSAULT BOATS England, Olin Dows 1944" "In preparation for the invasion, artillery equipment is loaded aboard LCTS at an English port.
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