An AFPU photographer kisses a small child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944.
Four 'stick' commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division, synchronising their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle at about 11 pm on 5 June 1944, just prior to take off from RAF Harwell in Oxfordshire.
Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against the clouds of dust, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944.
Troops coming ashore from landing ships during an invasion exercise in Britain, 5 May 1944.
The Queen and Princess Elizabeth talk to paratroopers in front of a Halifax aircraft during a tour of airborne forces preparing for D-Day, 19 May 1944.
King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944.
Paratroops of 6th Airborne Division blackening their faces in front of an Albemarle aircraft at RAF Harwell, 5 June 1944.
Troops take part in a ballot to see who will be the first to go on UK leave, Holland, 19 December 1944.
