When the beaches are clear, King George VI visits Normandy, as do Winston Churchill, General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and Field Marshal Brooke. Visitors to the D-Day Museum will find that the likeness of famous wartime personalities is one of the most striking aspects of the embroidery. The faces were the work of Ruby Essam from The Royal School of Needlework, who worked on a separate small square frame using flesh-coloured material, and a variety of flesh-toned embroidery threads in long and short stitch. As the faces were completed they were applied to the appropriate panels with final adjustments being made to ensure that each was instantly recognisable.