General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander-Europe;
Eisenhower’s Southwick Park headquarters, near Portsmouth, England;
Ike telling his 101st Airborne men “Full victory—nothing else!” before they boarded the C-47s that took them to the drop zones in northern France.
General James Gavin giving his men a powerful pep talk before the D-Day Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944.
American Army paratroopers being prepared for a practice early in the Second World War.
Workmen unpacking new Wright aero engines at the Douglas Aircraft plane at Santa Monica, California in 1939.
On an American airfield in southern England, infantry men head for their Horsa glider on D-Day.
C-47 Skytrains of theU.S. Army IX Troop Carrier Command on their English base in early June 1944.
‘Able Mabel,’ a U.S. Army Horsa glider on English airfield in early June 1944.
Learning about the operation of the Waco glider in 1944;
A British two-pound D-Day commemorative coin;
A U.S. Army Waco glider pilot preparing for launch on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
American airborne troops ready to board a C-47 aircraft for their para-drop mission of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of the European continent.
In the cockpit of a war-weary C-47 troop carrier;
The shoulder patch of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division in World War II.
Geoff Lea’s painting of a C-47 para-drop mission to Arnhem in 1944.
A German casemate and gun at Longue-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast;
Entering the village of Sainte Mere Eglise, France;
Omaha Beach, Normandy, 1990.
The house that German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel used as his headquarters in Normandy;
A German casemate about one mile inland from Utah Beach on the Normandy coast;
A German mine warning sign exhibited in a war museum.
The rusting hulk of a beached U.S. landing craft from the D-Day landings;
A German gun position on the beach near Arromanches, France;
A French Normandy landings commemorative road marker;
The German military cemetery at La Cambe, Normandy, France
A French war memorial marker in Normandy;
D-Day commemorative medals;
Nose art on a C-47 being made ready for the Normandy invasion operation.
