Photos Photos of the US Army in the ETO

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USAAF 9th AF Personnel are transported to Normandy by Royal Navy LCT2030 (Landing Craft, Tank) of the 28LCT flotilla on June 7, 1944
The day before on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), LCT2030 landed at the “JIG Sector” of Gold Beach and unloaded vehicles and personnel before returning to Southern England
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer

 

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USAHQ occupied Germany, 1945.
The MP is on hand to ensure that the instructions on the sign board are complied with.
(LIFE)

 

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"I wish somebody could tell me how we did that."
----- D-Day hero (and Texan) James Earl Rudder, on seeing the cliffs in Normandy, France at Pointe du Hoc that he and his men had scaled 20 years before at the start of the D-Day invasion. Today marks the 77th anniversary of D-Day. Rudder was with Walter Cronkite for a TV interview for a "20 years after D-Day" type of thing. He was looking at the cliffs and you could tell that, revisiting the place, he was humbled and amazed by what he'd done in 1944. May he RIP. This photo of him during WW II comes courtesy Texas A&M Press.

 

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Normandy Invasion, U.S. Navy Ships, June 1944. USS Augusta (CA-31) off French Invasion coast, probably Omaha Beach, during landing operations. Small landing craft speeding toward shore. Photographed released 12 June 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/9/9). 80-G-45720
In June, Augusta took part in the Normandy invasion, standing out of Plymouth on 5 June with Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, USA, and his staff, embarked. Closing the shore on 6 June, the heavy cruiser commenced firing at 0618, hurling 51 rounds from her main battery at shore installations. Also on board is Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force.

 

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Troops and crewmen aboard a Coast Guard manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 26-G-2349

 

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USS Joseph T. Dickman APA-13 receives wounded personnel off of Normandy France - June 6, 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

 

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USAAF Martin B-26 Marauder Bombers with the 553d Bomb Squadron / 386th Bombardment Group / 9th Air Force from RAF Great Dunmow over the Normandy Coastline on June 6, 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Frank Scherschel Photographer

 

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