Armed Forces Collection (page 8)

A Dornier Do 18 flying boat seen from an RAF Bristol Blenheim during a combat over the North Sea, 26th April 1940. The Blenheim was one of a number returning from a raid near Bergen

HMS Frobisher, one of the British Royal navy cruisers which during the week before D-day, when the allied expeditionary Forces sailed for France

British troops stationed in the western Desert, North Africa, design their own Christmas cards to sent back to their loved ones back in Britain and elsewhere over the festive period

RAF Coastal Command beaufighter planes attack two enemy armed trawlers off the coast of the Frisial Islands during the Second world War

Fleet Air Arm shatter enemy convoy on 27th November from one of the attacking Barracuda flighter planes of the British RoyalNavy aircraft carrier HMS Implacable during a strike on a southbound enemy

A setting sun dapples the clouds and streaks the waters of the Atlantic Ocean as one more convoy from America nears Britain

Grenadier Guard manning a forward position in France seen in this picture pulling the pin from a grenade. 18th April 1940

Situated as it, this cabin in which the partisan General Marshal Tito lives and conducts his campaign against the Nazi Forces in Yugoslavia, is difficult for visitors to locate

On an island in the Adriatic Sea, within sight of their homeland, young Yugoslav patriots of both sexes are busy training for the day when they will join Marshal Titos partisans

RAF aircraft of the Balkan Air Force are rendering close assistance to Marshal Titos partisan forces in Yugoslavia by carrying valuable supplies to them from Italy

The best medical aid possible is given to the partisans of Marshal Titos army. British surgeons and medical orderlies helped by Partisan nurses with little or no experience are doing a good job in

A celluloid factory in Yugoslavia, before the war employing 3, 000 people, was turned over to the manufacture of explosives by the Italians when they landed in the country

Yugoslav people settle down to life in a refugee camp operated by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the Middle East during the Second world War. April 1944

RAF Wellington night bombers of the Strategic Air Force, escorted by Spitfires of the Coastal Air Force, made a successful daylight attack recently on the Nazi fortified town of Niksic, Yugoslavia

The crew of a small British naval vessel spent three days in a Dalmatian port recently, with some of the partisans fighting the Germans

South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, supported by the Yugoslav army in carrying out attacks on rail targets and supply depots on the main supply

It was announced on September 27th, that Allied seaborne and airborne forces, mainly British, have landed in Albania and are fighting on a wide front

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 typhus team of No. 31 Mobile Field Hospital back their Fordson WOT1 Ambulance up to the freight doors of Douglas Dakota Mark III, KG523 H, of No

Rockets from South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force streaking towards German gun positions non Lussin Island in the Adriatic Sea of the Northern Dalmatian group of Yugoslavia

South African Air Force rocket firing Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, supported by the Yugoslav army in carrying out attacks on rail targets on the main supply

South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, supported by the Yugoslav army in carrying out attacks on rail targets on the main supply

Scenes on the Russian front during the counter-offensive campaign of the Soviet Red Army to push back the invading German army in the Soviet Union

Desperate fighting is taking place in the Valley of the Odon river in Normandy, Northern France, A surprise attack towards Every was made by Allied troops at dawn on 16th July 1944

A large army exercise, referred to officially as "Operation Crocodile"
A large army exercise, referred to officially as " Operation Crocodile" took place recently in Palestine and Trans-Jordan

Lieutenant Frank S, Barrett of Dallas, Texas and Lieutenant Frank M. Cookson of Los Angeles, California are shown singing out at Easter Services on a Ninth Air Force base somewhere in England during

Preparations for the Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany)

Scenes photographed on June 28th, 1944 as British tanks and. infantry go into action between Tilly and Caen to consolidate a position only held lightly on the previous day

One of a series of new photographs from Yugoslavia, where the guerrilla armies have achieved many successes against the German forces of occupation and their quisling followers

On a narrow strip of beach on the Normandy coast of Northern France, reinforcements of American assault troops assemble before moving in to the interior of the continent in support of the Allied

Aerial view showing damage caused to the Creil railway marshalling yards one o clock on 23rd March 1944, just after B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the US Ninth Air Force dropped more than 300 tons

American Army Ambulances get ready to drive ashore at Slapton Sands in South Devon as the bow ramps of LCTs drop to the sand during rehearsals for Operation Overlord

German army retreat in Montenegro during the Second World War. South of Niksic, three enemy divisions are trying to force their way north along the Niksic road

RAF Liberators of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, recently made a daylight attack on an important Japanese held railway station at Pak Nam Phau in Burma

An Airman of the RAF who took part in the raid on the German capital Berlin, picture at his base back in England after the mission. August 1940

British army batmen of the British Expeditionary Force service in France during the Second World, seen here cleaning boots for their respective superior officers. They are left to right: Private J

Royal Air Force serving in France in the early stages of the Second World War. Picture shows: RAF mechanics overhauling a tractor which has become stuck in the thick snow somewhere in France

Fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force whose lives were saved by parachutes make a visit to the factory where the parachutes were produced

Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command pose beside the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, which they shot down near Manston Airfield on 5th February 1941. Airmen, L-R are Pilot Officer C.H

Five British airmen of the Royal air Force were rescued from the sea by Royal Navy destroyer HSM Jackal after 24 hours afloat on rubber floats in the sea

Senior staff officers in the Operations Room at RFA Headquarters in France, plotting a mission. December 1939

British troops which crossed the Belgian frontier early in the morning of 3rd September 1944, rapidly freed Tournai and swept in north and east to enter the capital city Brussels in the late evening

The first "live"broadcast from the Normandy beachhead took place on Sunday
The first " live" broadcast from the Normandy beachhead took place on Sunday June 18th 1944 when Frank Gillard (BBC) and William Downs (CBS)

Members of Princess Marys RAF Nursing Service stationed in Britain during the Second world War. Nursing sisters hold the rank equivalent to Flight Lieutenant

Master Sergeant Former of the United States Army Air Force chalks sign on " Hells Angels" at a base in England to advertise his group when the ship arrives in the United States

Night fighters of the Royal Air Force pictured at a night fighter station in England in between bombing missions over Germany during the Second World War. Circa 13th March 1941

RAF air gunners with huge lucky horseshoe, given to them after a "Wings"
RAF air gunners with huge lucky horseshoe, given to them after a " Wings" presentation ceremony by Air Marshal K.M. Cuthrie at a Bombing and Gunnery School in MacDonald, Manitoba, Canada

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

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