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• 'Kilkenny's Circus' : Parachute Training School. Paratroops undergoing synthetic training

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1944

  image: inside a training hall. In the foreground there are several trainees hanging from harnesses suspended from the ceiling. In the background there are more trainees jumping in turn from a platform near the ceiling, some swing from the rafters.

• Gun-Team Firing in the Rain, Normandy : June 1944

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944-06-01

  image: set in a rural landscape, a gun crew fires from an emplacement under cover of camouflaged nets.

• A Shower-bath at the Rest Centre, Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy : June 1944

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944-06-01

  image: The setting is an open-sided barn with a tarpaulin screen hung from the ceiling. Men are drying off after a shower, while other wait to enter.

• Sea Transport : Poles loading bombs

  (art) Made by: Howard-Jones, Ray 1944

  image: a view over the deck of a merchant ship, with bombs being moved down into the hold using a crane. Two sailors supervise from the left, whilst a man casually sits with his legs dangling over the edge of the large hole that leads to the hold. Other...

• Courseulles : the Hôtel de Paris and amphibian transport

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: a D.U.K.W and a jeep parked outside a bomb damaged Hotel de Paris on a French seafront where there are several soldiers walking around. On the left is a second ruined building with a pointed rooftop and anti-aircraft guns outside. In the...

• Arromanches-les-Bains : DUKWs (Amphibian vehicles)

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: two soldiers watch from the seafront while amphibious vehicles drive in and out of the sea via a slipway leading down to the beach.

• Airborne RASC Supply-dropping

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1944

  image: inside a plane at night. The ground visible far below through the open door on the left. Several airmen are preparing to drop the supplies that are stacked up near the door.

• Loading Containers on a Dakota Aircraft

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1944

  image: a view of a group of British soldiers standing beneath the wing of a Dakota, struggling to carry a container that is about to be loaded onto the plane that towers above them.

• The Beach at Courseulles : 1944

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1944

  image: a small camp near the beach with a group of soldiers gathering near a shelter, the sea in the background. In the foreground two soldiers are manning a field gun. Far right, a second gun emplacement can be seen near the sea. The sky is filled by...

• Liberation and Battle of France: 151 Brigade Rear Headquarters in the Château De Briqueville, Gueron, Normandy 10th June 1944

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

  image: View of the front of a chateau from the garden, with army motorbikes and riders