'A victim of a Typhoon', 1944

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945), 1944.

The Allies enjoyed almost complete air superiority over northern France. The Royal Air Force's (RAF) rocket-firing Typhoon fighter-bombers in particularly took a heavy toll on German transport columns both prior to and after the D-Day landings.

From an album containing 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944-1945.