First pictures of landings in France.

First pictures of landings in France. Under cover of naval shellfire which formed a screen for the first landing parties, American infantryment are shown wading through the surf to the shores of France June 6, 1944. The heaviest air and naval barrages in history aided a great Allied armada of 4,000 ships to breach Nazi shore defenses and establish beachheads at several points on the north coast of France.