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ABOUT: These harrowing photographs illustrate the horrors faced by US soldiers during the Second World War's D-Day landings in France, on June 6, 1944.Towns reduced to rubble, wounded soldiers, and terrified troops making their way towards the Normandy shore, have all come to light in chilling images depicted for a new book The Americans on D-Day and in Normandy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by historian Brooke S.Blades.D-Day saw tens of thousands of courageous allied soldiers face the terrifying prospect of landing on France’s northern shoreline to liberate Europe from the Nazis.And given the incredible scale of the invasion, almost 2,500 Americans are thought to have died, as well as nearly 2,000 troops from the other Allied Nations.In the weeks after the landings, including D-Day itself, the Battle of Normandy saw over 425,000 Allied and German troops killed, wounded or missing.Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death (pictured) was taken on June 6 1944 by Robert F.Sargent, a chief photographer’s mate in the US Coast Guard.It depicts the US 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, as they disembark at Omaha Beach.It is one of the most recognised photographs of the Normandy Landings and has been mirrored in such films as Tom Hank's Saving Private Ryan A D-Day casualty is shown lying next to a fallen tree.Soldiers talk in the background, as they are now use to seeing fallen comrades.It's believed the photograph was taken on
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