D-Day: June 6, 1944

Photos from the Normandy Invasion
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Members of an American landing unit help their fellow soldiers ashore during the Normandy Invasion. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses.

Utah Beach landing

(AP file photo)

Members of an American landing unit help their fellow soldiers ashore during the Normandy Invasion. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses.