British troops crossing a pontoon bridge over the Volturno river, in Italy; 15 October 1943.

Crossing the Volturno

British Glider Infantrymen of  ’D’ Company, 2nd Airborne Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, attached to the 6th Airborne Division, pose with a young  French woman atop a captured German motorcycle during Operation Deadstick. Operation Deadstick was the codename for an airborne operation by the British Army that took place on 6 June 1944 as part of the Normandy Landings. 
The man on the left, Private Musty, is armed with a German MP 40.
 


They came, saw, conquered...

A cheerful group of soldiers from the British 3rd Division pose for a photograph in Caen, 10 July 1944.