Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG168

Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. (AP) REG168DHM1274AP. Wittmann at Villers Bocage, Normandy, 0900 hrs, June 13th 1944 by David Pentland. While other Tigers of his command struck northwest and decimated the tanks and half tracks of the Sharpshooters and Rifle Brigade parked along the road towards point 213 and Caen, Haupsturmfuhrer Michel Wittmann attacked on his own to the south east. Driving his panzer into the village of Villers Bocage. he proceeded to destroy the Stuart and Cromwell tanks of

charged and dispersed them

she bombarded Kwajalein for eight days prior to the Marshall Island landings on 1st February 1944

Britain's last great battleship HMS Vanguard in company with the aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable

(AP) Lt Gonville Bromhead stands over Private Hitch

with Christmas greetings from the RFC

For those on the ground there were few sights more stirring than a B-17 Fortress on its final approach from a combat mission

and the RAF proposed testing this aircraft with the more powerful Rolls Royce Merlin engine

Lt Roberts earned his VC

The First Lesson - Young Officers Ride by Harry Payne

Original oil painting by Jason Askew

Size 30 inches x 22 inches (76cm x 56cm)

Darren Gough by Stephen Doig