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• The East Yorkshires advance Alongside the Royal Dragoon Guards, Ver-sur-Mer near Caen : June 1944

  (art) Made by: James, Edward Ernest 1944

  image: Soldiers advancing up a beach from the sea.

• The Arrival at Lofoten : 4th March 1941

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1941

  image: Troops disembarking via a ladder from a landing craft at the dockside. A rowing boat is drawn up alongside. Dockers, sailors and civilians look on; one is waving a Norwegian flag. Two men look out from the first floor of a large timber faced...

• We Lie at the Beach Dressing Station and Wonder how the Battle is Going : D Day 6th June 1944

  (art) Made by: Heath, J C 1944-06-06

  image: Two rows of injured British soldiers lie on the ground or on strechers in the shade of a small hillock surrounded by camouflage nets. Others sit with their arms in slings and their heads bandaged. One of the men is being given a drip by two others...

• 'Troops To Military Boat Stations'. The Commando files on deck for the tensest moment in a raid

  (art) Made by: Mullen, Brian Joseph 1944

  image: a dimly lit ship's hold with a commando group in full kit waiting to disembark via a ladder to the upper deck. The whole scene is cast in an inky blue light, showing that it is night time or the early hours of the morning before daylight.

• With the Invasion Fleet: Troops Manning their Assault Landing Craft before the Landings in Sicily, Dawn, July 10th 1943

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

  image: The deck of a ship at night. A line of fully kitted out troops prepare to board a landing craft, each soldier with his right hand on the shoulder of the man in front to help guide each other in the dark.

• Captain R E C Dunbar, RN : on board "HMS Roberts"

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: a half-length portrait of Captain R E C Dunbar in uniform, reading a document lying on his lap.

• 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.

• British Troops and Vehicles on the Deck of a US Landing Ship Tank

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

  image: View across the deck of an LST loaded with supplies and troops

• The Black Watch landing in Sicily at Red Beach

  (art) Made by: Eadie, Ian G M

  image: View along a beach with landing craft and soldiers digging-in on the shoreline