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• London Docks: Building Caissons for Mulberry

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1944-04-01

  image: A dockyard scene with three large caissons in the background. A large number of wooden planks float in the water in the foreground.

• Sketch for 'London Docks' (LD4039)

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1944-01-01

  image: a view of a dry dock with a large scaffold erected next to a quay side on the right. On the quay side there are several cranes. To the left there are several more cranes and a parked van surrounded by figures alongside a channel of water.

• 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: United States troops establishing a beachhead after disembarking from an Assault Landing Craft during combined Anglo-American invasion manoeuvres off the coast of Devon.

• 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.