This picture was taken from a reel of film. Danny Sulivan, an architect paid just £15.00 for a dusty canister of cine film in a small British junk shop. In the old trunk was a photograph of an Angel and a number of letters. The cine film itself, shows Angels forming a cruciform shape with their bodies in mid-air.

The letters had belonged to William Doidge, a first world war soldier. The letters dated 1951, reveal that William met an American second World War veteran who wrote to him saying that he had seen an Angel before an accident that killed some of his comrades while training for D- Day landings.

The G.I. who signed himself as "Doug" in a letter to Doidge, told how his unit had been training in Woodchester Park, in Gloucestershire in the spring of 1944. He described how a pontoon bridge a cross a lake collapsed under the weight of armoured vehicles killing more than twenty soldiers.

Doug wrote that in the eve of the disaster, he and a friend named Chuck had seen an Angel hover above where the men would later drown. He wrote: "The whole thing took on the shape of what I can only describe as an Angel. I could see what looked like a long white robe. It had no feet and there were shapes like wings behind its shoulders."

Chuck the friend who was with Doug when the Angel appeared, died on Omaha Beach. He took his version of the story with him. But Doug's letter was enough for Doidge to go camera in hand in search of the Angel. It appears by what he captured on cine film and photograph, that Doidge search was successful.

No one knows what happened to Doidge. But the letters he received and the cone film and photograph and other personal belongings came to rest in an old trunk in a junk shop in Monmouth England, until Danny Sulivan found it. Danny played the film. He said: "The cruciform shapes made by a number of Angels are quite clear in the film that Doidge shot".