World War Two: D-Day Europe 1944

Allied troops from the 8th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division of the British Second Army come ashore on Queen Red beach, Sword Beach area from Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) on the morning of D-Day during Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of German-occupied France on 6th June 1944 in Normandy, France. In the foreground are sappers of 84 Field Company Royal Engineers, part of No.5 Beach Group who are identified by the white bands around their helmets and behind them, medical orderlies of 8th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) can be seen assisting wounded men on the shoreline. (Photo by James Mapham/No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).