The man in charge of D-Day, General Dwight D Eisenhower and his senior commanders at Supreme Allied Headquarters in London, February 1944. Omaha Beach secured shortly after D-Day, dozens of ships unload hundreds of vehicles and thousands of troops, June 1944. Three ships in Darwin Harbour just prior to the first Japanese raid on 19 February 1942. Identified from left: the sloop HMAS Swan; the US transport ship SS Mauna Loa, which was sunk during the Japanese air raid; the sloop HMAS Warrego. Both sloops survived the war and are seen here camouflaged. View of part of a harbor on the French Moroccan coast through a hole blasted in the wall of a building by attacking Allied forces during the invasion. General Douglas MacArthur confers with President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines on Corregidor as the campaign was coming to a close. Allied soldiers wade out to rescue vessels, Dunkirk, May 1940. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, following a conference...