A Canadian Sherman tank of the 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusiliers) enters Caen during the Allied campaign in Normandy. Read more
A U.S. military convoy crosses Cherbourg’s Place du Général de Gaulle in 1944. Visible on the right is a captured German NSU HK-101 Kettenkrad, later reused by Allied forces after the city's liberation. Read more
German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft of the Luftwaffe in flight over Europe during the final year of World War II. Read more
Soviet infantrymen armed with Mosin-Nagant rifles, PPD-40 submachine guns, and DP-27 light machine guns fight on the Rybachy Peninsula during the Arctic campaign of 1944. Read more
U.S. M4 Sherman medium tanks fitted with deep-wading trunks aboard landing ships before the Normandy landings during Operation Overlord. Read more
U.S. assault troops conduct an amphibious landing exercise from USS Cepheus (AKA-18) on the Algerian coast while preparing for the Allied invasion of Europe. Read more
Allied vehicles, including M1A1 heavy wreckers and Caterpillar tractors, being loaded at Brixham Harbour in preparation for the Normandy landings during Operation Overlord. Read more