Normandy : Allies in Villers Bocage .
Villers - Bocage , a Normandy town of shattered houses and bomb - cratered streets , is now in Allied hands . The Germans had made the town a strong point and the Royal Air Force was called in to to bomb their positions .
Picture shows ; A wrecked Tiger Tank on the brink of a bomb crater in the devastated town .
6 August 1944