World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion

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Troops go ashore during training exercises for the Allied D-Day invasion. This photo was captured earlier in 1943. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to "come in and pray for Allied victory" in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Ships and blimps sit off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (The George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress via AP)

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Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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U.S. servicemen attend a service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France.​​​​​​​ (AP Photo/Pete J. Carroll)

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General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory — Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of Europe. (U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo via AP)

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Normandy landings begin as American soldiers leave a barge under fire in World War II, June 6, 1944. (Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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Hundreds of American paratroopers drop into Normandy, France, on D-Day. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A crowd congregates in Times Square on June 6, 1944.   (Anthony Potter Collection/Getty Images)

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An A-20 Havoc of the 9th US Air Force rears in at a low altitude to blast enemy supply lines on the Cherbourg peninsula, June 1944. (Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

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Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion.  (Louis Weintraub/Pool Photo via AP)

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(L-R) Journalists Walter Cronkite, Frank Starr, Melvin K. Whiteleather, Robert Wilson and Alex Paton dash for the phone to transmit their news in Bloomsbury, England on June 6, 1944.   (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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Reinforcements disembark from a landing barge in Normandy during the Allied Invasion of France on D-Day. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A group of American assault troops of the 3rd Bat., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Infantry Div., having gained the comparative safety offered by the chalk cliff at their backs, take a breather before moving inland. Medics who landed with them on D-Day treated them for minor injuries at Collville-Sur-Mer, Normandy. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A mortar crew stands back just before firing into a Nazi position somewhere along the Normandy coast of France. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A weapon carrier moves through the surf towards Utah Beach, near Cherbourg, from its landing craft off the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944.   (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944.  (U.S. Army via AP, File)

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U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.   (US Navy/Getty Images)

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U.S. troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day on June 6, 1944.  (Imperial War Museum/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Allied Naval forces engage in the Overlord operation of landing while Allied forces storm Normandy's beaches on D-Day.  (US National Archives/AFP via Getty Images)

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