Members of a British special service commando are having their kits checked before leaving for the Allied landing operations of the Normandy coast in France, on June 6, 1944. 



Everything accounted for

HRH Princess Elizabeth watching parachutists during a visit to airborne forces at Netheravon Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire in England in the run-up to D-Day. Standing next to her is Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill; 19 May, 1944. (Colour by RJM).

Representing the Royal Family

British troops make their way through low water and up the beach after leaving landing craft (on the left) which transported them across the Channel to the Normandy beachhead for D-Day invasion in France, June 6, 1944. 