Among the campaigns which it recorded were the invasion of Sicily, the D-Day landings, the liberation of Paris and the Elbe River link-up of the Allied armies, known as 'Elbe Day'.

By the end of World War II, fifty nine Canadian photographers and cameramen had been involved in combat operations in Europe.

Its objectives were to film Canadian troops in action and supply the Department of National Defence, and also media outlets, with theatrical newsreels and still photographs.

During the liberation of Dieppe in 1944, as the Manitoba Dragoons awaited orders to advance, members of the CFPU including Ken Bell and Brian O'Regan were the first Allied servicemen to enter the town.

[5] In April 1945 the journalist Lionel Shapiro wrote in Maclean's magazine: Today, Ken Bell's war photographs - taken with a Rolleiflex camera - are housed by the Library and Archives Canada.,[7] in Ottawa.