D-Day Landing
Seeing this picture in color is enough to taste the nerves in this water-to-land assault vessel. A massive strength of 156,000 Allied soldiers breached the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944 and successfully overran the Nazis. They didn’t do so without mass casualties, though.

D-Day Landing
Calling For Reinforcements
An American soldier in camouflage gear uses his walkie-talkie to radio request reinforcements. This color World War II picture looks nothing like what we imagine when we think of a war fought in the 1940’s.

Calling For Reinforcements