undefinedĪn Italian tourist views a bunker at a strategic site overlooking the D-Day beaches which had been captured by US Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, France. June 8, 1944: A US flag lies as a marker on a destroyed bunker two days after the strategic site overlooking D-Day beaches was captured by US Army Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, France. Youths hike up a hill past an old German bunker overlooking the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach near Colleville sur Mer, France. June 18, 1944: US Army reinforcements march up a hill past a German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings near Colleville sur Mer, France. Tourists walk past a former German bunker overlooking the D-Day landing zone on Omaha Beach near Saint Laurent sur Mer, France. June 7, 1944: US Army troops congregate around a signal post used by engineers on the site of a captured German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings near Saint Laurent sur Mer. undefinedįarmer Raymond Bertot, who was 19 when allied troops came ashore in 1944, poses on his property near the former D-Day landing zone of Utah Beach in Les Dunes de Varreville, France.
June 6, 1944: US Army troops make a battle plan in a farmyard amid cattle, killed by artillery bursts, near the D-Day landing zone of Utah Beach in Les Dunes de Varreville, France. Tourists enjoy the sunshine on the former Juno Beach D-Day landing zone, where Canadian forces came ashore, in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France. June 194: A crashed US fighter plane is seen on the waterfront some time after Canadian forces came ashore on a Juno Beach D-Day landing zone in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France. undefinedĪ couple walk inland from the former D-Day landing zone of Gold Beach where British forces came ashore in 1944, in Ver-sur-Mer, France. undefinedĪ Cromwell tank leads a British Army column from the 4th County of London Yeomanry, 7th Armoured Division, after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day in Ver-sur-Mer, France. undefinedĬhildren walk over the remains of a concrete wall on the former Utah Beach D-Day landing zone near La Madeleine, France. US Army soldiers of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, move out over the seawall on Utah Beach. undefinedĪ tourist carries a bucket and spade to her child on the very same beach.
Members of an American landing party help troops whose landing craft was sunk after coming under heavy enemy fire off Omaha beach, near Colleville sur Mer, France. Holidaymakers enjoying the sunshine at D-Day landing zone of Omaha beach near Vierville sur Mer, France.
US reinforcements land on Omaha beach during the Normandy D-Day landings. The port was the departure point for thousands of Allied troops who took part in the D-Day landings. Tourists walking along the beach-front in the Dorset holiday town of Weymouth. June 5, 1944: The 2nd Battalion US Army Rangers march to their landing craft in Weymouth, England.
D day landing archive#
Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled an archive of photos taken on the day, and went back to the same locations to capture how they look today.