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• The 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 1944: The 'TT' Concert Party in the Wings at the Guildhall, Southampton

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1944

  image: five members of the 'TT' concert party, one holding a violin under his arm, waiting in the wings to go on stage while another act bows for of the audience.

• PREPARATIONS FOR THE NORMANDY LANDINGS, DECEMBER 1943

  part of "CARPENTER DAVID (MR)" (photographs)

  A phoenix caisson, later used as part of the Mulberry harbours during the D-Day landings in Normandy, is constructed at the Mowlem phoenix site in Russia Yard, Surrey Docks, London, in December 1943.

• OPERATION OVERLORD (THE NORMANDY LANDINGS): D-DAY 6 JUNE 1944

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Final Embarkation: British civilians hanging out washing and tending their garden in Hill Road, Southampton, while, behind them, parked in Rockleigh Road, an American field howitzer unit waits before moving to the docks to embark for Normandy.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: United States Army Signal Corps photographer

  The United States Army in Britain: Final preparations for D Day. Beneath the prophetic lettering on the canvas of his tent ('This is it' and 'Worry here'), Private Clyde N Dunkle from Pennsylvania cleans his Springfield rifle.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Winston Churchill watches an invasion exercise carried out by the US Airborne Division in the United Kingdom along with General Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, in March 1944 during preparations for the Normandy...

• WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Winston Churchill talks with members of a US airborne unit and American war correspondents during his recent inspection of invasion exercises in the United Kingdom in March 1944.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  US Airborne troops demonstrate an 81mm mortar to Winston Churchill and General Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, during an inspection of US invasion forces in the United Kingdom in March 1944.

• THE MULBERRY HARBOUR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Construction in Britain: Completed Phoenix breakwater units at London docks.

• THE MULBERRY HARBOUR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Off Selsey, on the south coast of England, completed caissons parked awaiting D Day.

• THE MULBERRY HARBOUR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Construction in Britain: An early stage in the construction of a large concrete caisson, known as a Phoenix. The Phoenix units were fitted with flooding valves to allow sinking on site to form a breakwater.