A 'Band of Brothers' takes part in the Allied invasion of Normandy (32 images)

Troops crouch inside a LCVP landing craft, just before landing on Omaha Beach, one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Photo by U.S. Coast Guard/National Archives/UPI

A member of the the U.S. Navy's Second Beach Battalion disassembles a German Beetle remote-controlled miniature explosive tank on Utah Beach on June 11, 1944. These vehicles were built as mobile anti-landing craft mines. Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8). Note the DUKY in the immediate background. Photo by U.S. Navy/National Archives/UPI

Scene on Omaha Beach soon after the D-Day landings, showing stranded landing craft, piles of supplies, and dead soldiers awaiting evacuation or burial. The USS LCT-199 is offshore in left center. British LCT(A)(5)-2421, USS LCT-555 and USS LCT-638 are on the beach in the center (listed from the middle distance to further away). An LCVP from USS Thurston (APA-77) is in the left foreground. The photograph was received by the Naval Photo Science Laboratory on June 14, 1944, but was probably taken on or about June 6. Photo by U.S. Navy/National Archives/UPI

A U.S. Army medical corpsman gives candy to a young French girl, injured during the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. Photograph released June 17, 1944. Photo by U.S. Navy/National Archives/UPI