photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2011-02-8-41

Description

Photograph of British troops landing on D-Day, 1944. Photograph taken by AFPU photographer Sgt J H Mapham, 1944. According to the caption this picture was hailed by the US Press as the war’s ‘greatest picture’. One of 53 British official photographs from World War Two (1939-1945).

Events

D-Day, 1944 (World War Two, North West Europe 1944-1945)