Allied troops wading ashore in France and soldiers lying dead on the beach

Haunting D-Day photos of brave Allied troops wading ashore in France and soldiers lying dead on the beach are transformed with colour on the 73rd anniversary of the Normandy landings

Black and white images of brave Allied soldiers wading onto Omaha beach (left) on the Normandy coast in France have been transformed by a Brazilian artist using Photoshop. Separate pictures show exhausted servicemen being dragged ashore by medics (top right) and British, US and Canadian troops advancing on Nazi positions after the landings. Another shows members of a US parachute regiment preparing for the landings a day before the assault (bottom right). The colourised images emerged on the 73rd anniversary of Operation Overlord, which saw some 156,000 Allied troops landing in Normandy.