British soldiers joke as they read a tourist guide about France aboard troop ships heading for the invasion beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. 



Aboard troop ships

Two British soldiers of the 1st Battalion of  The Leicestershire Regiment, keep watch over a group of German 6th Parachute Division (6. Fallschirmjäger) prisoners in a field near the Dutch town of Soest.

Surrendered paratroopers

King George VI. (right) visits North Africa and Malta. Here the King inspects a captured German Tiger I tank in Tunis, June 1943.