"D" Day preparations. Overhead shot showing part of the huge invasion fleet: Landing Craft, Tanks (LCTs) fully loaded and camouflaged.

Credit: Frank L. Dubervill / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-137130.

View from LCI(L) 306 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla showing ships of Force 'J' en route to France on D-Day.

Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-137014

Reinforcements going ashore from a (LCA) Landing Craft Assault from H.M.C.S. PRINCE HENRY off the Normandy bridgehead.

Credit: Dennis Sullivan / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-190123.

View looking east along 'Nan White' Beach, showing personnel of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade landing from LCI(L) 299 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla on D-Day.

Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-137013.

Canadian tank crews removing water-proofing from their tanks, Normandy beachhead. June 6, 1944.

Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-132898.

German personnel captured on D-Day embarking for England.

Credit: Ken Bell / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-132474.

Nursing sisters of No. 10 Canadian General Hospital, R.C.A.M.C.

Credit: Harold G. Aikman / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-108174.

Canadian troops entering Caen, France, July 10, 1944.

Credit: Lt. Harold G. Aikman/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-116510.

Lt.-Col. C. Petch (Montreal, Quebec) brings his North Nova Scotia Highlanders across the Odon River on the 'London' bailey bridge. July 18, 1944.

Credit: Ken Bell/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-131393.

A French veteran of the First World War greeting Universal Carriers of the South Saskatchewan Regiment during a Canadian advance in Normandy. July 20, 1944.

Credit: George A. Cooper / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-131386.

Allied officers examining a damaged aircraft of the Luftwaffe in a hangar at Carpiquet. July 12, 1944.

Credit: Ken Bell/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-162519.

Unidentified personnel of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade in front of the altar of a church in Carpiquet. July 12, 1944.

Credit: Ken Bell/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-162545.