The Snapshots in Time Collection
General Dwight D. Eisenhower Speaks with Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division Before D-Day, Greenham Common, England, June 5, 1944
General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division's 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment at Greenham Common, England, on the evening of June 5, 1944. The trooper before him wears the number '23,' identifying his aircraft stick for the jump into Normandy hours later. This encounter became one of the defining images of D-Day, captured just before the men boarded their planes. Project: 218246