Some of the British Commandos who took part in the ill-fated raid on the French city of Dieppe and returned alive, pose with the Union Jack, which was flown briefly from the cliffs there; August 1942.

Baptized in battle flag

Men of the 2nd Parachute Brigade disembarking from landing craft at the city of Salonika, north-eastern Greece on the Aegean sea; 8 November 1944. 


Paratroopers off the landing craft

British soldiers watch German POWs being marched to the rear in the vicinity of the French town of Argentan, some 20 miles south of Caen; advancing armor seen in the background; Normandy, 1944.