Soldiers crouch, tightly packed, behind the bulwarks of a Coast Guard landing barge in the historic sweep across the English Channel to the shores of Normandy
Bettmann/Corbis
To commemorate the occasion, LIFE released D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War – 70 Years Later earlier this year.
Publisher Henry Luce once said that LIFE had not been born as a war magazine but that world events made it one. Photographers from the magazine – including Robert Capa, Bob Landry, Ralph Morse and George Silk – were among the 1.5 million American servicemen and women in Southern England preparing for Operation Overlord.
Armed with their lenses, they captured the now-iconic images that adorn this book, some of which Steven Spielberg would later use when crafting Saving Private Ryan's heart-stoppingly intense opening depiction of D-Day.
Take a look at these photographs and, more importantly, take a moment to remember.
Winston Churchill walks to Parliament to announce the D-Day landings in June 1944 during World War II
Corbis
Squadron Of P-38 Lightnings In Flight
FPG / Getty
D Day at the White House
Marie Hansen
The aftermath of the Allied landing aboard a hospital ship
Corbis
A captured German soldier
Jeffrey Markowitz / Sygma / Corbis
Allied commander General Dwight Eisenhower (l) giving pep talk to US 101st Airborne Division troops just prior to the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe
U.S. Army
Signal Corps massed in Berlin, June 1944
Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty
American soldiers digging foxholes shortly after the D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy, France
Bettmann / Corbis
General Omar Bradley (l) and Admiral Alan Kirk sit and talk as they go ashore on D-day, after the Normandy invasion
Corbis
American soldiers wade to shore fighting heavy machine gun fire on the Normandy Coast
Robert S. Sargent / Corbis
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