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Bộ ảnh màu Trước và sau D-Day được đăng trên tạp chí LIFE 1944 . Tác giả bộ ảnh là Frank Scherschel (1907-1981) , từng đoạt giải thưởng LIFE vào 1950s
"There were flowers blooming everywhere, and everywhere the people waited for the news from England. It was as though the whole nation stood on tiptoe, straining to hear the thunder of guns." — LIFE magazine on the mood in America in the run-up to Operation Overlord, codename for the historic assault.
Troops and civilians pass the time on the River Thames in the spring of 1944.
An American corporal stacks cans of gasoline in preparation for the upcoming invasion of France, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, May 1944.
American combat engineers eat a meal atop boxes of ammunition stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion, May 1944.
An American Army chaplain kneels next to a wounded soldier in order to administer the Eucharist and Last Rites, France, 1944.
GIs search ruined homes in western France after D-Day.
Along the coast of France, June 1944.
An abandoned German machine gun, France, June 1944.
View of the ruins of the Palais de Justice in the town of St. Lo, France, summer 1944. The red metal frame in the foreground is what's left of an obliterated fire engine.
Magazines scattered among the rubble of the heavily bombed town of Saint-Lô, Normandy, France, summer 1944.
An American tank crew takes a breather on the way through the town of Avranches, Normandy, summer 1944.
A French couple shares cognac with an American tank crew, northern France, summer 1944.
"All the civilized world loves France and Paris. Americans share this love with a special intimacy born in the kinship of our revolutions, our ideas and our alliances in two great wars." — LIFE on the relationship between the U.S. and its longtime European ally.
From D-Day until Christmas 1944, German prisoners of war were shipped off to American detention facilities at a rate of 30,000 per month. Above: Captured German troops, June 1944.
Church services in dappled sunlight, France, 1944.
Maintenance work on an American P-47 Thunderbolt in a makeshift airfield in the French countryside, summer 1944.
A P-38 fighter plane sits in the background as the pilot arrives in a captured German vehicle, France, 1944.
American troops stand beside a World War 1 monument bedecked with French flags after the town (exact location unknown) was liberated from German occupying forces, summer 1944.
Frenchmen transport painted British and American flags for use in a parade, summer 1944.
American Army trucks (note cyclist hitching a ride) parade down the Champs-Elysées the day after the liberation of Paris by French and Allied troops, August 1944.
Tanks under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris during liberation celebrations, August 1944.
Free French General and military governor of the French capital Pierre Koenig, left, pictured during ceremonies held the day after the liberation of Paris, August 1944.
"Paris is like a magic sword in a fairy tale — a shining power in those hands to which it rightly belongs, in other hands tinsel and lead. Whenever the City of Light changes hands, Western Civilization shifts its political balance. So it has been for seven centuries; so it was in 1940; so it was last week." — LIFE after the French capital was liberated in August 1944.
Celebrations in Paris after the liberation of the city, August 1944.
