Sir Philip Louis Vian
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Sir Philip Louis Vian
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 10 November 1944
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x85422
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- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist associated with 42745 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 38 Dover Street, London)
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France is liberated from German-occupation following the Battle for Normandy. Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied-France led by Field Marshall Montgomery, was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million soldiers crossing the channel from England to France. Troops landed on the 6th June (D-Day), and Paris was liberated in late August.Tell us more back to top
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