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D-Day marks start of Europe invasion

American soldiers land on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Photograph by Robert F. Sargent)
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Celebrations as Rome is liberated

Apart from the slaughter of several companies on the shoreline near Anzio, the Italian campaign was a success. Rome was liberated on June 4th, 1944, two days before the invasion of the beaches of Normandy.
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Monte Cassino falls to the Allies

Rovine di Monte Cassino, 1944.
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Leningrad siege ends after 900 days

Leningraders on Nevsky Prospekt during the siege, 1942.
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Allies united after Tehran conference

The "Big Three": From left to right: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference to discuss the European Theatre in 1943. Churchill is shown in the uniform of a Royal Air Force air commodore.This was the first time Joseph Stalin (L) had met the other two Allied leaders.
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Operation Overlord

June 5, 1944 DDE speaks with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division just before they board their planes to participate in the first assault of the Normandy invasion.
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Operation Overlord

August 8, 1944 French civilians place crosses at the graves of American soldiers in a cemetery on Omaha Beach, France.
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Operation Overlord

June 10, 1944 Allied troops surround a farm house as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up an advance on Omaha beachhead near Vierville-sur-Mer, France.
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Operation Overlord

June 6, 1944 German prisoners rest in a barb-wired enclosure on Utah Beach after being interrogated by American soldiers.
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Operation Overlord

June 9, 1944 Taking a "breather" after gaining comparative safety offered by a concrete wall, American troops of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, move over the crest of a hill to the interior of Northern France.
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Operation Overlord

June 1944 Member of the U.S. Coast Guard participate in the D-Day invasion of the French coast.
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Operation Overlord

Coast Guard landing barges hitting the French coast with the first wave of the invasion. American soldiers wade ashore under heavy machine gun fire from Nazi beach nests.
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Operation Overlord

Panoramic view of supplies being brought ashore for invaders.
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Operation Overlord

June 6, 1944 A paratrooper loads for take off in England in preparation to leave for invasion.
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Operation Overlord

June 23, 1944 Mulberry and Gooseberry projects, vast landing platforms extending 1,000 yards into the channel from Omaha Beach, proved instrumental in the transportation of huge quantities of material from landing craft.
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Operation Overlord

July 1, 1944 This Rhino ferry unloads its cargo of Army ambulances on a beach in France, to provide equipment for more front line hospitals.
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Operation Overlord

June 9, 1944 Germans, former "Herrenvolk", surrender and are rounded up by American soldiers, one of which can be seen at extreme right.
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Operation Overlord

June 6, 1944 Gliders bring in supplies to U.S. army troops fighting on Utah Beach
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Operation Overlord

World War II Battle Map - "The Assault"
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Operation Overlord

June 8, 1944 U.S. troops set up command posts on Utah Beach.
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