TKOverKill

Today 65 years ago the Allied forces kicked of their conquest of Europe with the landing on the Normandy beaches. The invasion was a success, but it cost thousands of soldiers their lives. In honor of those brave men Gigapica remembers D-Day with these pictures.


The Allied commander general Eisenhower talking to American paratroopers.


Allied aircrews work around C-47 transport planes at an unidentified English base.


British paratroopers writing slogans on their Horsa gliding plane.


American paratroopers on their way to Normandy.


Aerial view of the Allied flotilla.


American soldiers disembarking from their landing crafts on Omaha Beach.


Canadian troops with bicycles on Juno Beach.


US Army Rangers at Point du Hoc, Omaha Beach.


British troops take positions on a beach (Juno or Gold).

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Allied ships being attacked while fighter planes fly overhead.


US assault troops approach Utah Beach in a barge.


Canadian soldiers land on Juno beach.


American troops on board a LCT. Some of these men wear 101st Airborne Division insignia.


US soldiers surround a burning German tank in a Normandy village.


Cows temporarily stalling the British assault.


German soldiers taking cover behind a hedgerow.


A Normandy farmer offers a glass of Calvados to a British paratrooper.


Horsa glider that crash-landed near Hiesville.


American medic tending to a German soldier.


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Originally posted here btw:
http://gigapica.geenstijl.nl/2009/06/ope...rlord.html

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The world would be nowhere near close to what it is now without those soldiers.
I am thankful to every one of them, and I know France will know how to commemorate their sacrifice.

wow, Hawk. those are AMAZING pictures. remember d-day.

very nice Hawk. Thanks.

The one that makes me laugh is " Horsa glider that crash-landed near Hiesville." As my grandfather who was in the Army Air Corp. said about those things.... they don't land they crash.

He was part of the Allied forces that parachuted behind the beaches to destroy rally points and take trenches that the Germans may have used from thier retreat from the beaches *"IF" the landings were successful.

*They were basically told if the beach assualts failed, they were on thier own.

The best I like is the one with the Canadian assault bikers (no disrespect meant!)

The amount of bikes ferried across was unbeleivable! They were mainly used by medics and messengers andwere pretty much the first real folding bikes. Also British and American Paratroopers jumped with them.