Into the Jaws of Death by Robert F. Sargent. Assault craft land one of the first waves at Omaha Beach. The U.S. Coast Guard caption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division.
Allied preparations
Eisenhower speaks with 1st Lt. Wallace C. Strobel and Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on the evening of 5 June 1944.
Planning of the invasion
U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Ranger Battalion march through Weymouth, Dorset, a southern English coastal town, en route to board landing ships for the invasion of France.
Allied Order of Battle - D. Day
D-day assault routes into Normandy.
Off Omaha Beach, American Liberty ships were deliberately scuttled to provide a makeshift breakwater during the early days of the invasion.
German Order of Battle
Large landing craft convoy crosses the English Channel on June 6, 1944.
American troops landing at Normandy: D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives
U.S. troops use a lifeline to rescue several men from a landing craft that was sunk by enemy fire on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
U.S. Army troops administer first aid to the survivors of sunken landing craft, on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
USS LCT-29 is in the background.
Note M1 rifles carried by some of these Soldiers.
Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Landings Supplies
Landing supplies at Normandy.
Allied establishment in France
The build-up of Omaha Beach: reinforcements of men and equipment moving inland.
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