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80 years ago, 6 June 1944: the
Normandy landings

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Roger-Viollet | 356373 | World War II.  Normandy landings . U.S. soldiers observing the landing of backing troops on a Norman beach. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
86-2 DG
World War II. "Normandy landings". U.S. soldiers observing the landing of backing troops on a [...]
Roger-Viollet | 669656 | World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers leaving a barge under fire, on June 6, 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
14890-1 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers leaving a barge under fire, on June 6, 1944.
 
Roger-Viollet | 396906 | World War II. Normandy landings. US reinforcements landing from barges at Utah-Beach to deploy towards Cherbourg (France), June 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1073-11 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US reinforcements landing from barges at Utah-Beach to deploy [...]
Roger-Viollet | 405061 | World War II. Preparations for the Normandy landings. British soldiers training on the North African coast, landing from US barges. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
14889-1 DG
World War II. Preparations for the Normandy landings. British soldiers training on the North [...]
Roger-Viollet | 717840 | Guerre 1939-1945. Préparation du débarquement en Normandie : exercice des fantassins américains débarquant de péniches à Slapton Beach (Devon) en Angleterre. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
14446-11 DG
Guerre 1939-1945. Préparation du débarquement en Normandie : exercice des fantassins américains [...]
Roger-Viollet | 691732 | World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers eating their rations aboard a barge crossing the Channel, June 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1073-8 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers eating their rations aboard a barge crossing the [...]
Roger-Viollet | 324596 | World War II. American assault troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, injured while storming Omaha Beach, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for further medical treatment. Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. June 6, 1944. | © US National Archives / Roger-Viollet
8614-43 DG
World War II. American assault troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment, injured while storming Omaha [...]
Roger-Viollet | 1015285 | World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers having a break in Montebourg before heading to Cherbourg (France), on June 28, 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
2162-6 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers having a break in Montebourg before heading to [...]
Roger-Viollet | 185643 | World War II. American howitzers shell german forces retreating near Carentan, France. July 11, 1944. | © US National Archives / Roger-Viollet
8614-47 DG
World War II. American howitzers shell german forces retreating near Carentan, France. July 11, [...]
Roger-Viollet | 305572 | World War II. French General de Gaulle greeted by British Marshal Bernard Montgomery at his arrival in Normandy, after the Normany landings. June, 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
154-15 DG
World War II. French General de Gaulle greeted by British Marshal Bernard Montgomery at his arrival [...]
Roger-Viollet | 705128 | World War II. Normandy landings. Doctor of the U.S. Army tending a German prisoner on Omaha Beach (France), on June 6, 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
1073-12 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. Doctor of the U.S. Army tending a German prisoner on Omaha Beach [...]
Roger-Viollet | 882312 | World War II. Lined up in front of a wrecked German tank and displaying a captured swastika, is a group of Yank infantrymen who were left behind to  mop-up  in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise gap area. August 20, 1944. | © US National Archives / Roger-Viollet
8614-49 DG
World War II. Lined up in front of a wrecked German tank and displaying a captured swastika, is a [...]
Roger-Viollet | 154058 | World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers entering Montebourg (France), on June 21, 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
2162-7 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers entering Montebourg (France), on June 21, 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 558668 | World War II. Normandy landings. Exodus of the population from Falaise and Argentan (France), August 1944. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
2166-11 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. Exodus of the population from Falaise and Argentan (France), [...]
Roger-Viollet | 956007 | World War II. Normandy landings. Convoy of barges sailing to the French beaches, June 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
3793-10 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. Convoy of barges sailing to the French beaches, June 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 445121 | World War II. English glider shot down during the Normandy landings, June 6, 1944. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
772-15 DG
World War II. English glider shot down during the Normandy landings, June 6, 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 731568 | World War II. Normandy landings. English gliders shot down in the night of June 6, 1944. | © LAPI / Roger-Viollet
2582-6 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. English gliders shot down in the night of June 6, 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 1073697 | World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers in Sainteny (France), June 1944. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
2164-13 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. US soldiers in Sainteny (France), June 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 815103 | World War II. Front of Normandy, 1944. Landing of equipment of the American Red Cross. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
14091-10 DG
World War II. Front of Normandy, 1944. Landing of equipment of the American Red Cross.
Roger-Viollet | 1060002 | World War II. Front of Normandy, 1944. Landing of a convoy of military ambulances. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
14091-8 DG
World War II. Front of Normandy, 1944. Landing of a convoy of military ambulances.
Roger-Viollet | 206952 | World War II. Normandy landings. English glider on the ground. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
991-14 DG
World War II. Normandy landings. English glider on the ground.
Roger-Viollet | 196102 | World War II. Normandy landings, June 1944. | © Roger-Viollet / Roger-Viollet
8941-2 DG
World War II. Normandy landings, June 1944.
Roger-Viollet | 397595 | War 1939-1945. Landing in Normandy. Barrage balloons flying over flat attack ships during the landing. France, June 1944. | © Jacques Boyer / Roger-Viollet
1111-8 DG
War 1939-1945. Landing in Normandy. Barrage balloons flying over flat attack ships during the [...]