Road to Victory

D day, June 1944 to VJ day, August 1945. Classic, Rare and Unseen Photographs from the Daily Mail.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies embarked upon the most dramatic military action of all time: Operation Overlord launched the largest amphibious invasion ever, involving 175,000 military personnel supported by nearly 7,000 vessels in the landing on Normandy. Road to Victory presents a detailed pictorial history of the last 14 months of the Second World War in both Europe and the Pacific in spectacular photographs drawn from the archive of The Daly Mail.