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![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.jpeg)
![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/thumb/59c57684-6a2d-4bdc-a11b-c5298cde3b3b.jpeg)
![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/thumb/553b4b9e-5c92-4081-804d-3be1d155825a.jpeg)
![Assault troops approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. [LCID: sc078]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/c2a00178-d908-4cbe-bf96-e506a38ad98a.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]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/891e5646-ac13-47f3-85f1-85f611ac6add.jpeg)
![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/thumb/0003fe08-4572-4bc5-a0ca-7f010fe36941.jpg)
![American troops wade through the surf on their arrival at the Normandy beaches on D-Day. [LCID: 65995]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/88307597-f87d-4745-8285-2a0b0f0cf8de.jpeg)
![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/thumb/31c37b69-2919-4db3-bdfe-868b26723d44.jpeg)
![Watercolor painting by Simon Jeruchim entitled "Memory of June 6, 1944." [LCID: 97032]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/9493c8e5-8a20-454b-aac9-f80f886a2e52.jpeg)