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1. LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) in a major exercise off the French coast.
*LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanized) in a major exercise off the French coast. A flotilla of landing craft in a major exercise in September 1943 as part of the preparations for the D-Day landings of the following year.
2. Launch of an LCT with women shipyard workers looking on.
*Launch of an LCT with women shipyard workers looking on. A landing craft being launched in a shipyard where many of the workers were women. During the Second World War many women took on jobs and services...
3. Landing craft LCM73 ferrying troops ashore during Operation Torch.
*Landing craft LCM73 ferrying troops ashore during Operation Torch. Operation Torch – the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942 – was the largest amphibious operation in history up to...
4. Review of the invasion fleet by the king.
*Review of the invasion fleet by the king. Rows of landing craft about to take part in the D-Day landings assembled for a review by George VI.
5. The U155 at Tower Bridge.
*The U155 at Tower Bridge. Launched at the Flensburger Schiffbau yard on 28 March 1916, 'U155' was seized after the Armistice on 24 November 1918. She was taken to Britain and...
6. WRNS parachute packers.
*WRNS parachute packers. Wrens - members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), an organisation in which many women performed important work during World War II. These...
7. Wrens dismanting a large marine engine.
*Wrens dismanting a large marine engine. Wrens - women from the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) dismanting a large marine engine. During the War many women took on the jobs and services...
8. Winston Churchill and US naval chiefs at Greenwich.
*Winston Churchill and US naval chiefs at Greenwich. Winston Churchill entertaining high-ranking officers of the United States Navy (including Admiral Ernest King) at the former Royal Naval Hospital,...
9. Invasion shipping in Portsmouth Dockyard, 26 May 1944.
*Invasion shipping in Portsmouth Dockyard, 26 May 1944. Some vessels of the D-Day fleet mustered in Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May, 11 days before the invasion of Normandy. The ships include the frigate...
10. HMS Growler, an ocean-going rescue tug.
*HMS Growler, an ocean-going rescue tug. HMS 'Growler', one of the 160 ocean-going tugs used during the D-Day campaign to move components of the Mulberry Harbours across to the Normandy...
 
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