Photos of the blonde units from the original D-Day printing can be seen here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=23386.0
I bought a copy of it back when it first came out: it had blonde British pieces, and the troop sculpts for all three nations were of the original early type. A couple of months ago I bought a sealed second copy of D-Day (hoping to get more blonde British pieces), but I was surprised to run into the same situation J.B. has decribed. The British pieces were in their current shade of tan, and the troop sculpts for all three nations were of the current “refreshed” type (which, I think, dates back to Anniversary or thereabouts). One easy way to distinguish them is the bent elbow of the British infantryman, which is solid in the old type but has an open hole in the refreshed type.
So on the whole, I was disappointed with my second copy of D-Day. At least it included those little blockhouse pieces, which are unique to the D-Day game.