On 11 June 1944 Thomas Hennell (and Edward Ardizzone) left Portsmouth for Normandy to record the allied positions, arriving only five days after the D-Day landings. Hennell sketched the immediate area and aftermath, around and to the south of the beaches, including the village of Ver-su-Mer and the German radar installation at Douvres.
Hennell then moved inland and recorded allied activity at Bénouville and Ranville and then ultimately, at the relief of Caen.
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