Today is 6th June: the anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed on the Normandy coastline. D-Day and Normandy has prompted thousands of books, and during the campaign many thousands of photos were taken on both sides of the battlefield. These are a small selection of rarely seen images. 1. Rommel’s Asparagus, Utah Beach This […]
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Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, commemorates the end of the Second World War in Europe and took place on 8th May 1945 bringing WW2 in the West to an end. Much of Europe lay in waste, Germany was in ruins, and millions had died on the battlefield or killed by Nazi genocide. More […]
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The Battle for Arnhem in September 1944 is an action closely associated with the British 1st Airborne Division and their heroic struggle for Arnhem Bridge and fighting in the Oosterbeek Perimeter. The units within this Airborne formation were all from the British Army and at the time Operation Market Garden was taking place the Canadian Forces […]
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Omaha Beach was one of five Normandy beaches where Allied troops landed on D-Day, 6th June 1944. It was also the deadliest with more than 2,000 American troops killed in action here with many thousands more wounded: and as such, it became known as ‘Bloody Omaha’. In fact, more Allied soldiers died on Omaha Beach […]
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In April 1945 the end of the war was only weeks away but for the Allied troops in Germany, there was no obvious end in sight. In the four weeks since the crossing of the Rhine, Lieutenant General Alexander Patch’s US Seventh Army had pushed deep into southern Germany, but not without opposition. Now the […]
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