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World War II Photos: D-day 1944

=== by Bob Sutherland ===

Canadian military photographs taken at Juno Beach during the D-day invasion of France, June to July 1944.

Photo: war02.jpg (1024 x 743 pixels), (1936 x 1405 pixels)
Photographer: Gilbert Alexander Milne
Canada Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada. PA-122765
Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders Regiment) going ashore from LCI(L) 299 [Landing Craft Infantry], at Juno beach, Bernières-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944.

Photo: war05.jpg (1024 x 769 pixels), (1890 x 1420 pixels)
Photographer: Gilbert Alexander Milne
Canada Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada. PA-135963
Canadian troops disembarking from LCI(L) 306 of the 1st Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla. Bernières-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1944.

Photo: war03.jpg (1024 x 721 pixels), (2017 x 1421 pixels)
Photographer: Lieutenant Frank L. Dubervill
Canada Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada. PA-132463
Infantrymen of Le Régiment de la Chaudière talking with French civilians, Bernières-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1944.

Photo: war04.jpg (1024 x 760 pixels), (1918 x 1424 pixels)
Photographer: Ken Bell
Canada Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada. PA-132474
German prisoners of war captured during the D-Day invasion are marching to a ship to embark for England. Bernières-sur-Mer, France, ca. 6 June 1944.

Photo: war01.jpg (1024 x 767 pixels), (1996 x 1436 pixels)
Photographer: Lieutenant Harold Gordon Aikman
Canada Department of National Defence. Library and Archives Canada. PA-116514
Soldiers landing at Arromanches, France, 23 July 1944.