US troops wade ashore from a Coast Guard landing craft at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.
Tourists take part in a land sailing class on the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha beach, August 2013.
US Army Rangers march their landing craft in Weymouth, England, June 5, 1944. The port was the departure point for thousands of allied troops on D-Day.
Tourists walk along the beach in Weymouth, July 2013.
Allied Forces Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with Army paratroopers at Greenham Common Airfield in England ahead of D-Day.
A gravel path on the former Royal Air Force base of Greenham Common in 2013.
American soldiers assist troops whose landing craft was sunk by enemy fire off Omaha beach, June 6, 1944.
A tourist carries a beach bucket on Omaha beach, 2013.
US soldiers move out over the seawall on Utah Beach after coming ashore in front of a concrete wall near La Madeleine, France, June 6, 1944.
French bathers walk over the remains of a concrete wall on the same beach, August 2013.
US reinforcements land on Omaha beach, June 6, 1944.
People soak up the sun on Omaha Beach, August 2013.
German prisoners-of-war march along Juno Beach after being captured by Canadian troops in France, June 6, 1944.
A tourist sunbathes on the same stretch of Juno Beach, August 2013.
Soldiers search through the rubble of a bombed-out bunker that was taken by US Army Rangers on D-Day.
An Italian tourist visits the same bunker, August 2013.
German prisoners-of-war captured after the D-Day landings in Normandy are guarded by US troops at a camp in Nonant-le-Pin, France, August 1944.
Army troops congregate around a signal post used by engineers on the site of a captured German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach, June 7, 1944.
Tourists walk past the former German bunker overlooking the D-Day landing zone on Omaha Beach, August 2013.
US Army reinforcements march up a hill past a German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach, June 18, 1944.
People hike past the old German bunker overlooking Omaha Beach, August 2103.
A Cromwell tank leads a British Army column inland from Gold Beach after landing on D-Day in Ver-sur-Mer, France.
That road is now regularly used by vacationers.
US Army troops make a battle plan in a farmyard amid cattle that were killed by artillery bursts near Utah Beach, June 6, 1944.
Here's what the same property looks like today. Raymond Bertot, who owns the farm, was 19 when allied troops came ashore in 1944.
, who was 19 when allied troops came ashore in 1944, poses on his property near the former D-Day landing zone of Utah Beach in Les Dunes de Varreville, France, August 21, 2013. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
The body of a German soldier lies in the main square of Place Du Marche after the town was taken by US troops who landed at nearby Omaha Beach.
Tourists walk across the same main square, Place Du Marche, in August 2013.
US Army paratroopers drive a captured German Kubelwagen on D-Day in Carentan, France,on June 6, 1944.
A man crosses the street at the same junction in June 2013.
A crashed US fighter plane is seen on the waterfront some time after Canadian forces came ashore at Juneau Beach, June 1944.
Tourists enjoy the sunshine on the former Juno Beach D-Day landing zone, July 2013.
Canadian troops patrol along the destroyed Rue Saint-Pierre after German forces were dislodged from Caen, France, in July 1944.
Shoppers walk along the rebuilt Rue Saint-Pierre, August 2013.
