D-Day silhouette 80 years ago

[New Sancai Compilation and First Release] June 6 this year (2024) is the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. On June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, breaking through the German coastal defenses and opening the way for Western Europe to escape the Nazi regime. '

△ On June 6, 1944, at Omaha Beach in Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, some U.S. 16th Infantry Regiment commandos were injured while landing on the beach and were waiting on the edge of the chalk cliff. Evacuated to a field hospital for further treatment.

△ On June 6, 1944, members of the American landing team assisted teammates whose landing craft was sunk by enemy fire on Omaha Beach near Colleville, France.

△ On June 6, 1944, Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach in Bernieres Sur Mer, France.

△ On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach near Colleville, France, the landing troops had consolidated their beach positions.

△ An American fighter plane crashed on the beach during D-Day at Juno Beach, Saint-Auban, France, in June 1944.

△ On the evening of June 5, 1944, American soldiers boarded an LCI driven by the Coast Guard and were about to land in Normandy.

△ On June 6, 1944, U.S. Coast Guard LCI-85 was evacuating its troops to the USS Samuel Chase after being attacked by artillery fire while approaching Omaha Beach. But not long after this photo was taken, the Samuel Chase was also sunk.

△ On June 5, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Company E of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army at Greenham Common Airfield in England paratroopers talking.

△ On June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France, American soldiers landed from a landing craft on Omaha Beach.

△ On June 6, 1944, in Weymouth, England, Major Father Edward J. Waters, a Catholic priest from New York, presided over a liturgy on the pier, surrounded by members of the troops who landed in Normandy.

△ In June 1944, a monument was erected for the fallen soldiers on the Normandy coast that was damaged by artillery shells.

△ On June 6, 1944, at Juno Beach in Benières, France, a large number of German prisoners of war walked along the beach to a ship that was about to send them to Britain.

(Source: reuters website)

(Compiled by: Bai Ding)

(Editor: Jiang Qiming)

(Source of the article: Compiled and published by New Sancai)