D-Day photos
Photographs of Operation Overlord: the build-up in England, landing craft crossing the Channel, troops wading ashore on Omaha and Utah beaches, paratroopers and the days after.
Why they are free to use: Taken by US Army, Navy and Coast Guard photographers on duty: US government works, not protected by copyright in the US. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
Landing on the beaches
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Troops wade ashore at Omaha Beach from a LCVP landing craft
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
D-day Normandy Nara 26-G-2343
1944-06-06 · U.S. National Archives
Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit (cropped)
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
Normandy-June-6th-1944-US-troops-assault-Omaha-Beach-during-the-D-Day-landings-3
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
How Omaha Beach looked during the afternoon of 6 June 1944
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
Omaha Beach Landing Craft
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
SC 190641
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
Landings on Omaha beach
1944-06-06 · U.S. National Archives
Crossing the Channel
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Lci-convoy
1944-06-06 · U.S. National Archives
USCG-1, formerly the 83300, escorting the first waves of landing craft to Normandy
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
US Navy LCI(L) sinking off Normandy in June 1944
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
WWII: Europe: France; "U.S. landing barge in English Channel en route to France"
1944 · U.S. National Archives
Omaha Beach Landing Craft Approaches
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
Normandy Invasion, June 1944
1944-06-09 · Wikimedia Commons
26-G-06-10-444 26-G-06-10-44(4) Normandy Invasion, June 1944
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
SC 320902
1944-06-06 · Wikimedia Commons
Paratroopers
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SC 195703 - Preparing for the airborne invasion of Holland, a Yank helps strap equipment on his buddy at a base in England.
1944-09-17 · Wikimedia Commons
WWII; England, Europe; "Ready and waiting for D-Day"
1944-05-22 · U.S. National Archives
Normandy 2
1944-06-08 · Wikimedia Commons
SC 190603 - Dead German paratroopers being unloaded for burial near St. Mere Eglise, 12 June, 1944.
1944-06-12 · Wikimedia Commons
After the landings
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SC 275417 - Supplies are unloaded from the Dumb Barge on 6th Engineer Special Brigade Beach. Omaha Beach, France.
1944-08-04 · Wikimedia Commons
SC 192599 - Photo shows American equipment as far as the eye can see-- These trucks, dukws, bull-dozers, and jeeps aid troops in establishing the beachhead won in the initial assault.
1944-06-09 · Wikimedia Commons
Burning German Defenses on Omaha Beach
1944-06-08 · U.S. National Archives
SC 189902 - Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead on the northern coast of France. Landing craft, in the background, jams the harbor. June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach.
1944 · U.S. National Archives
SC 191437 - Yanks are at home in their pup tents on one of the invasion beaches, where just 30 days before they were landing from some of the ships and assault craft now anchored peacefully off shore. Omaha Beach, France.
1944-07-06 · Wikimedia Commons
WWII: Europe: France; "U.S> Troops land at Normandy"
1944-06-06 · U.S. National Archives
Omaha Beach - East
1944-01-01 · U.S. National Archives
SC 320896 - American vehicles including trucks, DUKWs and small landing craft, on Omaha Beach, Northern France. The remains of a damaged house in the center background indicate the force of the bombing in this area.
1944-06-07 · Wikimedia Commons
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