Preparation

• Artillery ready and waiting for D-Day
  
• Eisenhower giving orders to American paratroopers in England
  

Ships Crossing the English Channel

• Ships towing barrage balloons cross the English Channel on their way to the invasion of Normandy on D-Day
  
• Convoy of LCI(L)s en route to the Normandy beaches, with barrage balloons overhead (photo taken from another ship)
  
• Trucks and other supplies stored in the front bow of a ship as it approaches Normandy on D-Day
  
• Landing ships carrying infantry troops toward the north coast of France on D-Day
  
• Ships off the invasion beaches, with barrage balloons overhead on D-Day
  
• Convoy of attack transports (APA) and LSTs anchored off shore in preparation for the invasion of France
  

Soldiers on Their Way to Normandy

• Men attending mass while en route to D-Day
  
• A crowd of soldiers ready to disembark for the Normandy invasion
  

Landings

• Troops looking out over the ledge of a manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach on D-Day
  
• Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day
  
• Into the Jaws of Death - U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire
  
• Troops wading ashore on Omaha beach from an LCVP
  
• Troops wade ashore from an LCVP landing craft on Omaha Beach
  
• From a bomber, showing the traffic lanes on the beach during D-Day
  
• A loaded Rhino ferry approaching the invasion beaches on D-Day
  
• British Army tanks and trucks being unloaded onto a Rhino barge during the early hours of the invasion
  
• Troops land at Normandy
  
• Infantry along the Omaha Beach and an dLCI landing more men in the background during D-Day
  

On the Beach

• Scene of destruction and death on the Omaha Beach in the afternoon
  
• Dead soldiers on the Omaha Beach
  
• A dead American soldier on Omaha Beach
  
• Infantry move out over the seawall on Utah Beach after coming ashore
  
• German prisoners of war on Utah Beach
  

Wounded

• Wounded soldiers from the Omaha Beach
  
• American wounded during the invasion
  
• LCM landing craft brings wounded U.S. Soldiers to a transport for evacuation from the combat zone
  
• LCM landing craft, evacuating casualties from the invasion beaches, brings them to a transport for treatment
  
• Two survivors being rescued from the water
  
• Troops using a lifeline to rescue several men from a sunk landing craft
  
• U.S. troops using administering first aid to the survivors of a sunken landing craft on D-Day
  

On the Homefront

• Blood Donors on D-Day
  
• A line of men reading news posted on a wall about D-Day
  
• A crowd of people at the D-Day rally in Madison Square
  
• Woman Speaking at the D-Day Rally
  
• Rabbi Stephen S. Wise addresses the crowd at a D-Day rally outside Madison Square Garden
  
• Women leaving a New York syngagogue after D-Day services
  

Photograph from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.