The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944 brought together unprecedented land, air, and sea forces: 3 million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of ships, planes and armored vehicles, a military operation of unprecedented logistic complexity. Thousands of men lost their lives during the Normandy landings. Countless photos and hundreds of hours of film recorded for posterity the fierce fighting and the soldiers’ remarkable bravery, on that fateful day and in the weeks that followed.