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

King George VI.

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

Column of German 6th Parachute Division soldiers, captured by the British, are marched along a road in a village in northern Holland on the way to the port of Den Helder, to be shipped to England to POW camps.
