Color photos of WW II - Part 3

British Forces:


Valentine tank and troops.


American troops to a ship, in a British port during preparations for the Normandy invasion, circa May-June 1944. Note British Sailors in the boat's conning station.


So that's why they call it the spitfire!


British Paratroopers.




Prisoners captured in fighting in the El Alamein area; 1942.


Fiat G.55s taken in early 1945.


General Bernard L. Montgomery watches his tanks move up. North Africa, November 1942.


Battle of Normandy: summer 1944: British of the personnel of beach with three mini tracked tactical vehicles.


British soldiers searching a house in colle, a village on Monte Camino.


Les Siviter, (Front row far right) was part of 131 Field Ambulance, left behind at by the BEF to tend the wounded, captured and marched through France and eventually entrained first to Stalag 20A and then transferred to 20B in Poland.


The ground staff pushing a giant Stirling, largest four-engined bomber in the world, out for overhaul.


US Navy: American unloading in Normandy: Unloading of a British unit since a LCA. Sight the quality of the camera angle, it probably acts of a exercise, since the soldiers wear the very common shorts to Africa, but not very frequent in Normandy.

Part 1 - Canadian forces.
Part 2 - Soviet army.