Reinforcements arrive on Omaha Beach, June 1944

Photograph, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945), 1944.

American soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division move up from the beach to the front line in Normandy. Over 130,000 troops landed on 6 June 1944 and in the days that followed thousands more poured ashore to reinforce the invasion front.

One of 37 British official photographs.