Adolf Hitler reviewing troops on the eastern front, 1939

Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference, 1943

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, inspector of Atlantic Wall defenses and commander of Army Group B, north of the Loire River

Meeting of the top commanders of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, London, February 1944

Paratroopers hit the ground

U.S. troops and equipment lined up prior to embarkation

B-17 Flying Fortresses over German U-Boat base in Lorient, Fr., March 1944

A rail yard burns after attack by Allied fighter-bomber

A mock Sherman tank, part of the Allied deception campaign prior to the invasion, is easily flipped by a pair of men

Erwin Rommel inspects beach defenses in France, March 1944

Meeting of the German high command in the West, Paris, May 1944