Preparations for D-Day

In a letter to Sydney Schiff (3rd July 1944) referring to the fact that this painting had not been passed for public exhibition by the Censor, Eurich remarked: " The funny part about it is that the whole thing is a creation of my own and has no relation to facts at all - I saw so much of everything that was going on here that I realised it was impossible to render things as seen, so I set to work to recreate the thing in my mind from odds and ends remembered." The Censor's ban was a classic case of Eurich's ability to convince viewers of the absolute reality of what were often largely imaginative reconstructions.

Richard also depicted D-Day in a triptych now in The Harris, in Preston, Lancs.