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. 

On the British sector

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

Some of the first British soldiers wounded in the French invasion coast lie on stretchers somewhere home in England, brought back the very day the assault started, June 6, 1944. Allied service men look with commiseration on their stricken comrades. 