James Mapham Photographs | World War II Database


Welbike motorcycle being assembled in the field during an exercise in the United Kingdom, 22 Apr 1944	Sherman Crab flail tank under test with the UK 79th (Experimental) Armored Division Royal Engineers, 27 Apr 1944

British troops crouching down on Sword Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944	British troops taking shelter near a M10 Wolverine tank destroyer, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

British Universal Carriers with deep wading screens and a Churchill AVRE tank passing through La Breche, France, 6 Jun 1944	German prisoners awaiting transfer at the beaches of Normandie, France, 6 Jun 1944; note disabled Sherman Crab flail tank in background

Medics tending the wounded by a Churchill AVRE vehicle of UK Royal Engineers 5th Assault Regiment, Sword Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944; M10 Wolverine tank destroyer of 20th Anti-Tank Regiment	Men of the British 2nd Army waiting to move off Queen White Beach of Sword Beach, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1944

British Sherman tanks near Lebisey Wood for the assault on Caen, France, 8 Jul 1944	Winston Churchill, Bernard Montgomery, and Miles Dempsey crossing the Orne River in Caen, France during Churchill’s inspection tour, 22 Jul 1944. This bridge was thereafter known as “The Winston Bridge.”

Demonstration of a captured German Panzerschreck weapon by an instructor of UK 59th Division, France, 1 Aug 1944	Troops of British 59th Division with a captured German 8 cm GrW 34 mortar, Vienne-en-Bessin, France, 1 Aug 1944

Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank, 25 Aug 1944	Men of 158 Brigade, UK 53rd (Welsh) Division escorting German prisoners, the Netherlands, 19 Sep 1944; note Universal Carrier leading the column

Cromwell tanks of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945	Cromwell tank crew of C Squadron, 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945; the man sitting on the tank was a Russian former POW who had been fighting alongside the crew

Sherman Firefly tank of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945	The crew of a Humber Light Reconnaissance Car Mk III feeding pigeons in Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945