Photograph: British Beach-Head Photograph Hailed as War's Greatest By U. S. Press. Photograph was taken by Sgt. Photographer of the British Army Film Unit, has been acclaimed by the American Press as The War's Greatest pictures. It shows British troops landing on the Normandy coast on June 6th. The picture was taken by Sgt J H Mapham, who was a staff photographer on the Leicester Mercury before the war. Shows British troops landing on a beach on the Normandy coast. Picture issued: June 1944. British Official Photograph No. B 5114. XC. War Office Photograph - Crown Copyright Reserved. One of 37 British Official photographs, nd. Mounted on card with original associated typescript captions. Covering aspects of the preparations for and liberation of North West Europe, 1944-1945, including D-Day, 1944, and the Rhine Crossings, 1945.