Allan Wood, Daily Express war correspondent with airborne forces,Arnhem, 20 September 1944 (b/w photo)

Allan Wood, the Daily Express War Correspondent with the Airborne forces, who arrived by glider, typing his story in the cover of a trench at Arnhem, 20 September 1944. Photograph by Sergeant D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944. Inspired by the bravery of the airborne troops he encountered at Arnhem, Wood wrote: ‘if in the years to come, you meet a man who says, "I was at Arnhem", raise your hat and buy him a drink.' From a collection of 75 British official photographs relating to 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, Operation MARKET GARDEN,September 1944.