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. 

Wounded and safely home

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

British troops topple down the symbols of fascism in Chisimaio, Somalia, during the Italian East Africa campaign , which will end Italian possessions in the Horn of Africa and allow the resettlement of Hailé Selassié on the throne of Ethiopia. February 1941.

Imperial War Museum - IWM E2367/taken from fb