Allan Wood, Daily Express War Correspondent with the Airborne forces, typing a story at Arnhem, 20 September 1944
Photograph by Sergeant D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.
Inspired by the bravery of the airborne troops he encountered at Arnhem, Wood wrote: 'if in the years to come, you meet a man who says, "I was at Arnhem", raise your hat and buy him a drink.'
From a collection of 75 British official photographs relating to 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, Operation MARKET GARDEN, September 1944.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2005-12-38-26
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2005-12-38-26
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