50th division

Autor:

Sgt Midgley, No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit.

Credit:

• Caption 1 and photograph from Clay, Major Ewart W. (1950) The Path of the 50th: The Story of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in the Second World War, Gale and Polden, s. 238 ISBN: 1-87006-707-X.
• Caption 2, information on the photographer, and the photograph also located at the Imperial War Museum collection number 4700-29, reference number B 5245.

Krótki link:

https://plwiki.pl/b/7e20

źródło:

Wikimedia Commons

Wymiary:

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Opis:

Caption 1: "The infantry, the humble foot soldiers, now about to fulfil their classical role." Caption 2: "Commando troops coming ashore from LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry)." The photograph shows commandos of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division of the British Army coming ashore from Landing Craft Infantry at Gold Beach near La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur, Normandy, France, on 6 czerwca 1944 at the start of the Invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Licencja:

Public domain