Armed Forces Collection (page 2)

Frogmens Reunion for World War Two heroes awarded the Victoria Cross, to appear in a BBC television programme. They are Lieutenant Basil Charles Godfrey Place, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fraser

Members of B Compnay the 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Volunteers prepare to board the coach before travelling to Kent for two weeks intensive training. 19th September 1981

Ready for action - part of D Company 4 para from Norton get set for todays major exercise on Salisbury Plain. For several of the lads it is their first parachute jump with the battalion

Aviation - RAF St Athan - Part of the collection of aircraft at the RAF St Athan Historic Aircraft Museum. In the foreground Messerschmitt ME 163B (Komet) - 15th January 1987

Aviation - RAF St Athan - Members of No 2 Engineering Squadron at work on a RAF Victor K2 aircraft at St Athan - Mr George Kear, of Barry, the schedule servicing chargehand (left)

Aviation - RAF St Athan - W / Comdr Malcolm Bartlett (foreground)
Aviation - RAF St Athan - W/Comdr Malcolm Bartlett (foreground), officer commanding aircraft engineering wing at St Athan with one of three shifts of civilian

London Victory Parade, May 1919. 1914 Men

The Coventry Lord Mayor, Alderman Leonard Lamb(second from right) with three of the guests at his banquet to mark the 50th anniversary of the R.A.F.s foundation

Avro Lancaster planes of RAF Bomber Command carpet bomb a road junction near Villers Bocage, Normandy, Northern France through which the 2nd

American Mustang fighters of the Royal Air Force in flight over England during the Second World War. 23rd August 1942

Two of nine Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish bombers launched from a Royal Navy Aircraft carrier travelling to attack the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic Ocean during the Second Word War

Proudly caressing his bomb sight after bombing the rail centre at Stendal, Germany, is Major Charles Hudson of Bakersfield, California

Pigeons, recruited into the RAF as a valuable means of communication often become war casualties. In many cases they are shot at by farmers who mistake them for pests

During his visit to the British sector somewhere in France, French President Albert Lebrun, accompanied by the Commander In Chief of the British Expeditionary Force Lord John Gort VC

Activities and personnel at HMS Rajalyia, Royal Navy Station in Puttalam, Ceylon during the Second World War. Picture shows

Canadian fighter squadron which is led by Squadron leader Sir Douglas Bader, the famous RAF flying ace who lost both of his legs in an air accident in 1931

Over a thousand members of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF) are now in India working alongside the RAF in South East Asia Command

Airmen of the Second Tactical Air Force Bomb Disposal Flight, assisted in clearing the streets and houses of the ruined city of Caen, Normandy of booby traps left by the fleeing Germans

Throughout the hours of darkness, WaF Flight mechanics are on duty servicing aircraft used for night training of pilots at a Flying Training Command Station in Scotland

Some fighters of an Eastern escort carrier make their first kill on board HMS Empress at sea in the Pacific during the Second world War

The RAF Spitfire squadron "County of Surrey"
The RAF Spitfire squadron " County of Surrey", known as " Churchills Own", of which the Prime Minister is honorary Air Commodore, arrived in India in 1942

American paratroopers pictured in the C-47 of the Troop Carrier Air Division of the 12th Air Force, en route to dropping zones in Southern France during the Second World War

Military Policeman Lance Corporal H. Wallis of 68 King Alfred Street, Derby is seen here exercising his police dog " Lady". May 1944

At a football match held at Delivrand, in Normandy, a Scottish Pipe band, (Black Watch) entertained the crowd of French civilians and British troops who had gathered to watch the match

First pictures of the evacuated British Airborne Forces from Arhem, Holland during the Second world War. Sergeant C Bennet of the 1st Airlanding Brigade (home town Darlington)

Members of a field kitchen staff of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) taking cover in a trench as the alarm sounds for an air raid at Cromer, Norfolk during the Battle of Britain. August 1940

The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A. A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at
The boys of the 61st (Middlesex) A.A. cadets show off their fitness at a display at the London District School of Physical training at Hendon

Royal Navy patrol frigates of the 1st escort group, HMS Affleck and her sister ships Gore, Gould, and Garlies destroyed two German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic Ocean at Gibraltar

The recent heavy rains have taken the creases out of the kilts and Piper Milne of Cainery Road, Aberdeen, and Piper Fraser of Kintore, both of a Scottish military pipe band

Several Women Auxiliary Air Force (WaF) officers flew out direct from England to take up duties in the Northwest African theatre after the fall of Tunisia

A group of 10 veteran seaman serving with the training ship HMS Implacable, which, as the French warship Ddugay-Trouin, fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805

Group of US Army nurses first to land with the vanguard of American troops on Normandy beachheads, take time for dinner on the site of the Field Hospital

The first party of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) attached to the 21st Army Group arrive in Normandy, Northern France following the successful Allied landings on the beaches on 6th June

On board the HMS Duke of York for the concert tour organised by the Council for Encouragement of Music and Art (CEMA) at a Northern Naval base. The series of concerts had record audiences

"N for Nuts"was one of the RAF lancaster bombers which took part in the attack
" N for Nuts" was one of the RAF lancaster bombers which took part in the attack on German occupied Paris railway targets on the night of 20th April 1944

Operating from a landing strip carved by RAF airmen and Yugoslav Partisans with picks and shovels out of vineyards among the rocky hill of a

A Yugoslav Squadron flying Spitfires from a Tactical Wing of the Balkan Air Force based in Italy, recently flew their first offensive mission over their homeland

Captain Alvin D. Skaggs of Lawton, Oklahoma, ponders his luck as he holds charred remains of his pilots seat from the smouldering wreck of his ship, the B-24 Liberator bomber " Vadie Raye"

Mechanics working on the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Argus inside the hangar after it had completed 25 years of continuous service with the Royal Navy. September 1943

A Lockheed Hudson of the RAF Coastal Command received direct hits from ant-aircraft guns when on reconnaissance over Norway

An American bomber of the United States Army Force involved in an aerial battle over Germany during the Second World War, as indicated by the long ghost-like smoke trails in the sky. November 1943

Aerial view showing damage caused to the the Luftwaffe fighter and bomber base at Leeuwarden, Holland after an attack by B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the US Ninth Air Force on 24th February 1944

Flight Lieutenant Howard Peter "Cowboy"Blatchford of Number 257 Squadron RAF
Flight Lieutenant Howard Peter " Cowboy" Blatchford of Number 257 Squadron RAF who, in his Hurricane fighter plane

The band of an Army Technical School leads the parade of Officers and men of HMS Garth from the railway station to the Town Hall in Wokingham, Berkshire during the Second World War. 26th January 1945

Princess Mary, the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, pictured at an ATS Training depot near Reading during the Second World War

Mosquito fighter plane registration number RG 314 of 81st Squadron, based at Seletar, Singapore, the last Mosquito in operational service with the RAF

Mosquito MK XVIII plane of RAF Fighter Command in flight during the Second World War. November 1944

Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg, Royal Engineers and CREs embark on a landing ship tank from Hamburg, Germany bound for Norway

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