Soldiers of the Royal Ulster Rifles sit on an improvised dock made of trucks on the beach of Dunkirk (Dunkerque), in northern France; June 1940.

Waiting to be evacuated...

As forces of the British 8th Army enter the northern Italian city of Ferrara, the local inhabitants waste no time to go out and greet them. They seem to return the gesture... Kissing babies is just one of those things; April 24, 1945.

Welcome to the British troops

Dutch children, along with grown-ups watch Churchill AVREs (Armored Vehicles Royal Engineers) pass through the town of Dongen in southern Holland, about ten miles north of the Belgian border; 1 November 1944.