1.American soldiers line up for a briefing prior to receiving their D-Day assignments.
2.U.S. Army troops march through the streets of an embarkation port on the coast of England, on their way Normandy.
3.U.S. paratroopers begin boarding for the invasion.
4.Paratroopers give the thumbs-up from inside a glider that will drop them behind enemy lines, graffiti on the side of the glider says "Angels With Dirty Faces."
5.A British soldier gives another thumbs-up as he awaits the invasion.
6.American troops board a landing craft prior to the launch.
7.U.S. soldiers boarding Landing Craft Vehicle-Personnel, or LCVP.
8.Members of a U.S. combat engineer unit march aboard a Landing Ship-Tank, or LST.
9.Soldiers wait for the landing at Normandy.
10.A long line of LSTs, each towing a protective barrage balloon, as they leave England for France.
11.U.S. soldiers in a landing craft.
12.Bayonets at the ready as the U.S. troops prepare to take their designated strips of the Normandy beach, codenamed "Omaha" and "Utah."
13.British and Canadian troops will strike sections of beach codenamed "Sword," "Juno," and "Gold."
14.The fields of Northern France are littered with gliders as the Douglas C 47s that towed them there leave the area.
15.6,939 vessels are deployed for the invasion of Normandy.
16.Nearly 160,000 troops cross the English Channel, the largest amphibious attack in human history.
17.D-Day is codenamed "Operation Neptune" and is the landing component of the overall plan to liberate Normandy from Nazi control, codenamed "Operation Overlord."
18.Allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach.
19.As the doors of the amphibious vehicles are lowered, the troops face the full force of Hitler's "Atlantic Wall."
20.The Atlantic Wall is a chain of German fortifications which immediately begins pounding Allied Troops with mortars and machine gun fire.
21.Troops from the 48th Royal Marines storm Juno Beach.
