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Cruiser Mk IV tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment of 3rd Armoured Brigade of British 1st Armoured Division at Thursley Common, England, United Kingdom, Jul 1940 | Cruiser Mk IV tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment of 3rd Armoured Brigade of British 1st Armoured Division in a village in Surrey County, England, United Kingdom, Jul 1940, photo 1 of 2 | Cruiser Mk IV tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment of 3rd Armoured Brigade of British 1st Armoured Division in a village in Surrey County, England, United Kingdom, Jul 1940, photo 2 of 2 | British 9.2-inch coastal artillery gun crew in exercise, Culver Point Battery, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 24 Aug 1940 |
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Northover Projector with its British Home Guard crew, mid-1941 | British 9.2-inch coastal artillery gun crew in exercise, Needles Battery, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 7 Aug 1941 | Director of Auxiliary Territorial Service Jean Knox at her desk, England, United Kingdom, 1941-1943 | Trooper Bill Jones of the British Royal Tank Regiment in the driving seat of a Covenanter tank in Britain, 16 Feb 1942 |
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Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars Mk II of 29th Independent Squadron of British Reconnaissance Corps at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 5 Mar 1942, photo 1 of 2 | Humber Light Reconnaissance Cars Mk II of 29th Independent Squadron of British Reconnaissance Corps at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom, 5 Mar 1942, photo 2 of 2; note Mk II helmet | Major General R. N. Gale of UK 6th Airborne Division talking to troops of 5th Parachute Brigade, Royal Air Force Harwell, Berkshire, England, UK, 4 or 5 Jun 1944 | British airborne troops admiring the graffiti chalked on the side of their Horsa Mk I glider, 6 Jun 1944 |
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Bernard Montgomery, Omar Bradley, and Brigadier Alexander Stanier at Montgomery's headquarters in Normandie, France, 13 Jul 1944 | British and American troops join with residents of Courseulles-sur-Mer in Bastille Day ceremonies at the town’s War Memorial. Courseulles-sur-Mer was the first town in Normandy to be liberated by the Allies. | Bernard Montgomery showing Winston Churchill a map held by Gen GG Symonds, during Churchill's visit to Normandy, 22 Jul 1944. Behind Churchill is LGen Miles Dempsey. | Sergeant F. J. Petrie and sapper L. Roberts examining a captured German Panzerschreck weapon, south of Caumont, France, 31 Jul 1944 |
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Charles de Gaulle, Philippe Leclerc, and others at Montparnasse railway station, Paris, France, 25 Aug 1944 | American C-47 aircraft flying over Gheel in Belgium on their way to the Netherlands for Operation Market Garden, 17 Sep 1944 | An American C-47 aircraft, hit by flak returning from the Market-Garden drop, burning after crash-landing into a knocked-out German Jagdpanther near Gheel, Belgium, 17 Sep 1944 | Children wearing orange ribbons and waving Dutch flags during celebrations in Eindhoven, the first major town in Holland to be liberated, 20 Sep 1944 |