Unprecedented scale: D-Day’s fighters, helpers, victims

FILE – In this file photo from June 6, 1944, members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte- Mere-Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses. (Louis Weintraub/Pool Photo via AP, File)
The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity.
As veterans and world leaders commemorate the 75