Vintage Photographs Showing Anxious New Yorkers Waiting for News on D-Day, June 6th, 1944

People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building

The On the morning of June 6th, 1944, D-Day, as New Yorkers started their day, thousands of troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and had already been fighting for hours. Here is a collection of photographs of New Yorkers that day, as they anxiously awaited news on the New York Times' ticker, through print, and through rally speakers in Madison Square Garden.

In churches and synagogues across Manhattan, people bowed their heads in prayer, while in Times Square, crowds craned their necks to watch the latest reports creep across the electronic ticker on the New York Times building. The New York Stock Exchange observed two minutes of silence and thousands gathered in Madison Square for a rally led by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People in Times Square watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
Worshippers enter a synagogue on 23rd Street for a special D-Day service
Worshippers enter a synagogue on 23rd Street for a special D-Day service
The packed noon mass at St. Vincent de Paul’s church
The packed noon mass at St. Vincent de Paul’s church
Worshippers pray at noon mass at St. Vincent de Paul’s church on 23rd Street
Worshippers pray at noon mass at St. Vincent de Paul’s church on 23rd Street
A woman prays at St. Vincent de Paul’s church on 23rd Street
A woman prays at St. Vincent de Paul’s church on 23rd Street
Worshippers outside St. Vincent de Paul’s church
Worshippers outside St. Vincent de Paul’s church
Worshippers outside St. Vincent de Paul’s church
Worshippers outside St. Vincent de Paul’s church
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
Crowds gather in Madison Square
Crowds gather in Madison Square
Thousands gather for a rally in Madison Square
Thousands gather for a rally in Madison Square
Crowds in Madison Square Park
Crowds in Madison Square Park
Anxiously awaiting news
Anxiously awaiting news
Invasion news
Invasion news
A speaker addresses the rally in Madison Square
A speaker addresses the rally in Madison Square
A police band plays for the crowd
A police band plays for the crowd
A speaker addresses the crowds in Madison Square
A speaker addresses the crowds in Madison Square
Crowds awaiting news
Crowds awaiting news
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
People gather in Times Square to watch the news ticker on the New York Times building
Waiting for news
Waiting for news
Children salute the French flag at a French school in Manhattan
Children salute the French flag at a French school in Manhattan
A girl tends a victory garden at a school on 1st Avenue
A girl tends a victory garden at a school on 1st Avenue

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