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In a flower covered field in France, an American Waco CG-4 glider takes off for the first time on foreign territory since the D-Day landings
Small high speed vessels, manned by officers and men of the Merchant Navy, have run the enemy blockade of the Skagerrak to bring valuable war materials from Sweden
For 7 hours early in 1943 the corvette HMS Lavender lay alongside a blazing Panama tanker in the Caribbean Sea while the Corvettes crew fought the flames
A German bomb explodes on a British ship of the R royal Navy during an engagement in the Mediterranean Sea during the Second World War. 2nd June 1941
Picture highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region, taken on board the Royal Navy destroyer ship HMS Milne in Northern Waters shows sailors wearing Arctic hat fashions
Mediterranean Sea battle units of the Italian Fleet engaged by a British Convoy escort en route from Alexandria, Egypt to Malta. Picture shows: A Royal Navy Cruiser smoke-screening the the convoy
Picture taken aboard Royal Navy cruiser HMS Manchester in Northern Waters highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region. Circa May 1941
An Admiralty statement on 14th August 1942 stated that supplies and reinforcements had reached the fortress of Malta despite very heavy enemy concentrations designed to prevent their passage
Picture showing how Britain prepared for an attempted invasion by German forces during the Second World War. Weapons developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department include this vertical flame throwing
A Kamikaze pilot of the Imperial Japanese Air Force in a suicide attack on the American navy warship USS Sangamon in the Pacific Ocean near Okinawa. 4th May 1945
Men of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards manning one of the thousands of blockhouses built around the coast of Britain and elsewhere as part of the coastal defences against possible German invaders
New cap and badge button approved for the British Army Catering Corps during World War II. May 1941
Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg, Royal Engineers and CREs embark on a landing ship tank from Hamburg, Germany bound for Norway
"Ditched air crew"in dinghy paddle towards the lifeboat as it touches down" Ditched air crew" in dinghy paddle towards the lifeboat as it touches down. Lifeboat Dropped From Air. 13 July 1945, Lee-On-Solent
A dummy Landing Craft Tank, Mk 11, of rigid construction designed by Messrs Cox & Co of Watford Used as a decoy in South East Coast harbour when preparing for the Invasion of France
A general intensive training of British Army units in Northern Ireland is being undertaken to prepare them for offensive operations in the event of invasion
Nine survivors of a blazing American Superfortress plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean have been recovering in hospital in Calcutta after rescue by two RAF Catalina flying boats
Canadian soldiers tend to French Refugees in Normandy shortly after the successful Allied landings during the Second World War. Many of the French refugees had not eaten for three or more days
Picture showing how Britain prepared a fiery reception for the Germans had they attempted an invasion. Oil Defences capable of setting the English Channel ablaze were evolved - billowing smoke
The crew of a Short Sunderland flying boat, shot down recently in the Bay of Biscay by a JU 88 of the German Luftwaffe, was sighted by HMS Starling after a search of approximately 24 hours
One of Britains secret war achievements- the Military Port. After the fall of France in 1940 the South and East Coast British ports were virtually closed to large ocean going ships
British Army soldiers in training, practicing invasion exercises. April 1942
A collection of some 60 paintings by outstanding Canadian artists and graphically illustrating Canadians in all branches of the service, will be on display for the first time at the National Gallery
Signing the Armistice between the Soviet Union, United States of America and Great Britain on one hand and Romania on the other in Moscow on 12th September 1944
A Messerschmitt 110 goes down in flaming pieces before the massed fire power of the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force in their attack on the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt
The badge worn by personnel of the HM Minesweepers. April 1945
The badge of the South East Asia Command (SEAC), the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during World War II. May 1945
At the beginning of the New Year thousands of sailors, marines, soldiers and airmen of Combined Operations Command will be wearing the Commands new badge
HMS Ashanti Puts In To Refit. April 1942, Naval Dockyard, England. Scenes In The Dockyard During The Refit Of The Destroyer. Women dockyard workers coming ashore from the destroyer. April 1942
British Army infantry in training exercises to keep a high level of fitness. The british Armed forces are maintaining the highest possible standard
Troops of the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex) Division resting in the village of Bauchen during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany, 18th November 1944
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Glasgow Highlanders seen here in their snow camouflage on patrol at Gangelt, Germany. 11th January 1945
British amphibious tanks leave the west bank of the Lower Rhine heading eastwards. Another tank can be seen behind it on the river bank. The photograph was taken by a low flying RAF aircraft
Behind the biggest smoke screen in the history of war, British armour and infantry move into position for the offensive - the ?final heave?
Liberator bombers of Strategic Air Force of the Eastern Air Command flew over 2, 300 miles to bomb the newly built Japanese port of Khao Huagang in Southern Burma
All the large cooling towers at the at the Bohlen Synthetic Oil plan near Leipzig were partially destroyed, loading sheds and distillation plant considerably damage
Twenty three buildings and installations at the Marseburg Synthetic Oil plant, 20 miles west of Leipzig were damaged during the attack by the US 8th Air Force heavy bombers on the 20th July 1944
First picture of the Soviet Red Army in Vienna. capital of Austria captured by troops of the Third Ukrainian Front on 13th April 1945 after eight days of stubborn fighting
Cutting the neck. Heavy high explosive concentration of bombs, dropped by the US 8th Air Forces Third Division cuts across the choke point where the rails narrow to funnel over the rail over canal
Bombs on Bergen. Striking at German supply lines just behind the battle lines. US 8th Air Force bombers attack rail marshalling yards at Bergen, Germany
In their drive forward down the Pi Chaung and Kaladan valleys on the Arakan fronts, British and West African troops of the 81st Division have advanced more than 50 miles in 40 days
Night raid on Brunswick by Bomber Command. 14th October 1944 Brunswick with its streets clearly illuminated by the light of many fires and thousands of burning incendiaries bombs dropped by the RAF
Three soldiers of a Company of a British Army regiment watching for snipers in the German village of Stein, one of twelve captured during the new offensive by General Dempseys Second Army on the Roer
On 6th September 1944, aircraft of RAF Bomber Command attacked Eden in force. Reconnaissance pictures show that very heavy damage has been inflicted on the town In the heart of the city
Raid by heavy bombers of the American Eighth Air Force on two important targets in the German occupied town of Brest, Brittany in Western France
Access to Burma for troops and supplies must be maintained and many roads are being built by the Army under unimaginable difficulties
Mosquitos attack Hague Target. By pin-pointing, attacking and destroying one particular building in the Hague, Holland, RAF mosquitos of the 2nd tactical air force Carried out one of the most
It is 75 miles from Hopin to Mawlu fourteen days journey through a monsoon swept jungle, over Japanese road blocks, through little devastated villages where every possible track is mined
