The conquest of Normandy through colored photos (Photo)

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23 August 2017, 17:00(9 years ago)

The conquest of Normandy through colorful photos: Amazing pictures showing Allied forces preparing for battle, waving Nazi flags and images showing the ruins of northern France. It was the military operation that returned from World War II. Now, more than 70 years ago, these pictures with [...]

It was the military operation that returned from World War II.

Now, more than 70 years ago, these colorful photographs have been discovered by Canada's National Archives.

These photos show the daily battles of the Normandy War, the Periscope broadcast “Daily Mail”.

The operation, coded by the name “Overlord”, which had invaded this region, began on June 6, 1944, also known as “D-Day”.

These images show that infantry soldiers are preparing for the coast of Normandy, young boys carrying machine guns, and their trip to villages, as well as the remaining destruction after Allied forces bombed towns and villages to recover France from Nazi Germany./Periscopi/

The Day: Canadian infantry soldiers are seen dissbarbing solar craft tanc ship in a low period on June 6, 1944, surprised by gold tanks and bech obstales, the men walk on a roof of wood slides on the sand

Battle points: Soldiers man a gun as they post for awar photographer under Juno Beach in 1944

Captured: Two Canadian soldiers held up a Nazi flag they caught in the arms of the Aucrais Haut-Messil government. The Nazi pennant didn't seem to have served much and was actively discussed in the sad bad lying at their feet

Destruation: The town of Saint-Lão saw design of up to 95 per cent when U.S. Bombed force it during Operation Overlord

In the ground, three American soldiers in their Half-rock M3A1 Equipped with an M2 HB Cal.50 Machine Gun.

His Canadian crew of a Sherman tank recovered before the batle mouth of Caen (May sur Orne, Verrières) Just 28, 1944, Sherman V

Jeeps closing on the LCT Channel Fever, the jeep

Absolem on ship, beginning of June 1944 - Operation Overlord LCT

Leaving England: Assault launching crews are started to the root with torops, painted in the beginning of June in 1944

Ready to fight: Rangers of the 2nd Battallion overloaded for Normandy on June 1, 1944, and recovered on board five English vices for secret computers. See in this image are some soldiers calling Bangaloll toredos

Time off: Private Larry Mason of Brooklyn, New York, Private 1st Class Norman Raussch of Clion, Pennsylvania, and Sergeant Henry Krawczyk of Milwaukee, Wisconsin play sounds while waiting to leave

Canadian soldiers are seen manning a Bofors Canon, named as Sergeant Traplin, Bombarder Heldon and Sergeant Kennedy

Time to eat: U.S. Torops riskive donuts and oatmeal distributed by the Red Cross in a tent in Weymouth, Dorset, before ending on watching set to cross the Channel before D-Day

What was to come: In the ground two waters of the US Navy have personalized their jacket as they sit on board an awesome shell calling personry and toilets across the water

Exercies: This image shows soldiers of the 17th Cavalry Square of the XX US Corps reporting to the registrance of the Jeep, holding an exemplifying somewhere in the UK before D-Day

After the batle: American soldiers, an officer at the head of a Lt (actually line on the poisons) crosses a farm song civilians, including child in Normandy

Remains: Two French birds, two women and three children look on the church Saint Malo after the bombs arrived out by the American Sappers

Three Canadian soldiers are examining German Guns captured in the brotherhood of the Aucrais Have-Messil government or the Germans have studied input, including a V2 model on cycle 1 with a mission transport troll

Free France: A shelter in Cherbourg after bookification, sets the French speak above ' La Maison du Prisonnier', a Vichy organisation on Rue du Chateau, going from Place De Gaulle to Place de la Fontaine

Runs: A couple of civilians cross what remains of the Rue Carnot towards the old Presidentship in the streets of Saint-Lo

Crossing the Channel: This shot of the British LCA-1377 shows the U.S. thops mutating with medical staff head of D-Day

This photo, takes in England at the beginning of June 1944, Contains a host of interesting seas. There are soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division US, golded troops and special bodies of Genius as well as well as toilets equipped with cameoflage nights where you can spare cars

These are U.S. And Canadian forces are set for one of the remaining ports for Omaha Beach; Weymouth, Portland, Pole, Plymouth, Falmouth, Helford River and Fouey

Bombed out: A long column of American shocks arrived from the North, from the direction of the clouds of Omaha and Utah and rolls on the road of Carentan, Saint-Lo, Normandy

A run in Saint-Lo has been protected and is used by the bullets of American veil skiing the town from the higher to the ground soute. In the center is the snare formed by the overflow of the Doll, who was made is subjected by the root of the houses

Two children, Max and Jean Robin arrived 12 and eight, waiting the passage of an American Jeep maintaining a Citroen front-whelve drive on the Rue loyer from the Runs of Saint-Lo