D-Day, the day Allied forces invaded France during World War II, marked a major victory over Nazi Germany and is said to have been a turning point in the war.
On that day, June 6, 1944, about 156,000 troops landed on beaches around Normandy. Some 10,000 Allied troops were killed, along with 9,000 Germans.
Over 70 years after the invasion, Reuters photographer Chris Helgren collected archive pictures of D-Day and returned to France to photograph their locations as they appear today.
US troops wading ashore from a Coast Guard landing craft at Omaha beach on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day.
Tourists taking part in a land-sailing class on the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha beach on August 2013.
US Army Rangers marching to their landing craft in Weymouth, England, on June 5, 1944. The port was the departure point for thousands of Allied troops on D-Day.
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