British infantry and tanks advance through the laid-back small town of Reviers in Normandy, France; June 11, 1944.


Small Normandy town

A British soldier leads a long file of Italian prisoners into a barbed wire enclosed detention area. They were captured during the battle for El-Alamein, in North Africa. 

Italian POWs

North American Mitchell Mk IIs of No. 226 Squadron RAF based at Hartford Bridge, Hampshire, dropping 500-lb MC bombs over the Foret de Grimbosq, south of Caen, in the evening of 12 June 1944. This operation was the biggest daylight raid mounted by No. 2 Group since 6 June, in which 90 aircraft bombed the 21st Panzer Division which was dispersed in the forest.