A study made on D-Day, inscribed as title, lower left, with the pre-printed page number 34 of the notebook from which the sheet comes at bottom right. The view looks down at the figures of soldiers huddled in the bottom of a 'Landing Craft Tank' off the Normandy coast, with other invasion vessels behind and smoke rising from the beaches in the distance. A pyramidal stand of rifles is also loosely indicated in the bottom of the craft. The artist's position on the deck of a ship above is indicated by the rope or cable curving up to top centre of the sheet, with weighted fall hanging loose, presumably from a derrick for loading equipment into vessels alongside. The numbers '103' and possibly '8' which have been strengthened in the inscription at the bottom do not match those apparently on the bridge of the LCT itself which look more like '39...'. [PvdM 6/14]