Color photo from World War 2: Canadian soldiers examine war trophies captured during the invasion of Normandy.

On the right with the raised barrel is a captured Soviet-style 76-mm cannon USV (in the Wehrmacht 7.62 cm F.K.297 (r)). In the center, slightly back is a captured Soviet 122-mm howitzer model 1938 M-30. Behind that is another USV. To the left in the foreground is a German anti-tank gun PaK 40; Normandy, France, 1944.

Collected in Normandy

Canadian medics evacuate a wounded soldier on a Ford sanitary utility (SUV/GPV) general purpose vehicle.
On the left is a military chaplain, major John W. Forth. He and the soldiers are from the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, which during this time period was fighting in the vicinity of the city of Caen, France; June 1944. 


Seriously wounded

A wounded Canadian Army soldier is given adrenalin on the deck of a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) alongside the HMCS Prince David (F-89) of the Canadian Navy off of the Normandy beachhead during the D-Day Allied landings (Operation Neptune); 6 June 1944. Near Bernières-sur-Mer, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France.  