General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division just hours before their jump into German-occupied France (D-Day). June 5, 1944.
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Captain Lasdun briefs troops of the British Army on June 4, 1944, two days before the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
Item View![Assault troops approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. [LCID: sc078]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b3a43994-8230-4211-ab2e-c67ac4a336a8.jpg "Assault troops approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. [LCID: sc078]")
Assault troops in a landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
Item View![US troops wade ashore at Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front against German ... [LCID: 80494]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/eafa078a-f007-4758-892f-8f5a6404d529.jpg "US troops wade ashore at Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front against German ... [LCID: 80494]")
US troops wade ashore at Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front against German forces in Europe. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
Item View![American troops wade through the surf on their arrival at the Normandy beaches on D-Day. [LCID: 65995]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/230fc32d-0184-4623-953f-eddea23eefac.jpg "American troops wade through the surf on their arrival at the Normandy beaches on D-Day. [LCID: 65995]")
US troops wade through the surf on their arrival at the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
Item View![American troops pull the survivors of a sunken craft on to the shores of the Normandy beaches on D-Day. [LCID: 65996]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/930a1864-31a6-42ef-8def-fd577f04d159.jpg "American troops pull the survivors of a sunken craft on to the shores of the Normandy beaches on D-Day. [LCID: 65996]")
US troops pull the survivors of a sunken craft onto the shores of the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
Item View![British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front ... [LCID: 04733]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/74b01dd7-58d1-4608-950c-89f07953b810.jpg "British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front ... [LCID: 04733]")
British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front against German forces in Europe. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
Item View![British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front ... [LCID: 04735]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/39b84bff-6453-4dd9-a244-a9d9d6a16850.jpg "British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front ... [LCID: 04735]")
British troops land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of France to establish a second front against German forces in Europe. Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
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Canadian troops of the 'B' Company, North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment take cover on June 6, 1944, or D-Day.
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Dated June 6, 1944, this US Twelfth Army Group situation map shows the presumed locations of Allied and Axis forces on D-Day, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. Drafted during the war, the content in this historical map reflects the information that operational commander, General Omar N. Bradley, would have had on hand at the time.
Item View![The Normandy beach as it appeared after D-Day. Landing craft on the beach unload troops and supplies transferred from transports ... [LCID: sc236]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3c96d1cb-0c95-48a5-acec-9c85dcf33b3d.jpg "The Normandy beach as it appeared after D-Day. Landing craft on the beach unload troops and supplies transferred from transports ... [LCID: sc236]")
The Normandy beach as it appeared after D-Day. Landing craft on the beach unload troops and supplies transferred from transports offshore. Barrage balloons hover overhead to deter German aircraft. Normandy, France, undated (after June 6, 1944).
Item View![Watercolor painting by Simon Jeruchim entitled "Memory of June 6, 1944." [LCID: 97032]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5f230d59-d8e9-46bd-a78d-85c627f8424b.jpg "Watercolor painting by Simon Jeruchim entitled \"Memory of June 6, 1944.\" [LCID: 97032]")
Teenager Simon Jeruchim learned of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France (D-Day) on a shortwave radio. He painted a watercolor depiction of the bombing and burning of a town situated on a river. He titled the piece "Memory of June 6, 1944."
Simon Jeruchim was born in Paris in 1929 to Samuel and Sonia (née Szpiro), Jewish émigrés from Poland. In July 1942, Simon’s parents were able to find hiding places for him and his siblings, but they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz before they could themselves go into hiding. Simon spent almost two years in Normandy. There, a schoolmaster gave him a gift consisting of watercolors and a sketchpad. Simon used them to depict various aspects of his life in Normandy.
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