ALT Assault landing, one of the first waves at Omaha. The Coast Guard caption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

ALT Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks and gives the order of the Day, with 101st Airborne Division paratroopers before they board airplanes and gliders to take part in a parachute assault. This was the first assault into Normandy as part of the Allied Invasion of Europe. June 6, 1944. U.S. Army photo.

ALT U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions fix their static lines in preparation for a jump before dawn over Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944. U.S. Army photo.

ALT A monument erected to an American Soldier somewhere on the shell-blasted coast of Normandy. Photo Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo.