Winston Churchill and senior Allied commanders looking up at aircraft activity overhead during a visit to General Montgomery's headquarters in Normandy, 12 June 1944.
Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against the clouds of dust, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944.
Rocket-armed Fairey Swordfish on a training flight from RNAS St Merryn in Cornwall, 1 August 1944.
Men of 12 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers prepare to advance at the start of Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 26 June 1944.
Royal Navy personnel of an ostacle clearance unit blowing up German beach obstacles at La Riviere, Normandy, 9 June 1944.
Three French boys looking at a knocked-out German Panther tank in the Falaise pocket, Normandy, 25 August 1944.
General Montgomery with Generals Patton (left) and Bradley (centre) at 21st Army Group HQ, Normandy, 7 July 1944.
HM Submarine TAKU returns home after a year's successful service in the Mediterranean, 3 August 1943.
Major General George 'Pip' Roberts (right), commanding 11th Armoured Division, with Brigadier Roscoe Harvey of 29th Armoured Brigade, and a Sherman command tank, Normandy, 15 August 1944.
Fairey Swordfish Mk I torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm on a training flight from Crail in Scotland, 1940.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) move a torpedo for loading into a submarine at Portsmouth, 29 September 1943.
Follow-up waves of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade disembarking with bicycles from landing craft onto 'Nan White' sector of Juno Beach at Bernieres-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944.
A London family from Peckham evacuated to Bideford in North Devon during the Second World War.
American volunteer pilots of No.121 (Eagle) Squadron run to their aircraft at RAF Rochford in Essex, August 1942.
Men of the 51st Highland Division charging with fixed bayonets during a training exercise in the desert, North Africa, 23 September 1942.
A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941.
Cecil Beaton photograph of an RAF bomber crew being debriefed by the squadron intelligence officer on their return from a night raid over Germany, 1941.
Nighttime view of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London in 1940.
Flight Lieutenant C L F "Jimmy" Talalla of No. 122 Squadron RAF, standing in front of his North American Mustang Mark III at B12/ Ellon, Normandy.
A ground crewman helps a pilot of No. 601 Squadron RAF into the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX at Venafro, Italy, 12 May 1944.
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC of No. 166 Wing in flight from Chittagong in India, May 1943.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXs of No. 242 Squadron RAF at Calenzana, Corsica, after a patrol over the invasion beaches in southern France, 17 August 1944.
A group of evacuees from Bristol arrive at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon during 1940.
Londoners sleeping in the passageway of a London Underground station, probably Aldwych, in November 1940.
