Military Collection (page 25)

British troops training in Northern Ireland during Second World War. 27th June 1941

Night pictures showing the powerful beam of a Leigh Light fitted to a Liberator aircraft. 3rd October 1944

British Valentine tanks during a training exercise during the Second World War. 4th January 1942

British soldiers guard a beach in England during the Second World War. 16th September 1940

An R. A. F. Intelligence Officer scrutinises aerial photographs in the Western Desert
An R.A.F. Intelligence Officer scrutinises aerial photographs in the Western Desert. 7th December 1942

A German tank is destroyed in desert during the Second World War. 8th November 1942

Heavy flamethrowers installed for the defence of English Channel ports. 5th June 1945

Submariners, pictured reading the Daily Mirrors Good Morning Newspaper, which was specially published and distributed for the Royal Navy Submarine Service during World War Two

The wreckage of a German bomber shot down by a RAF fighter over Southern England. Circa February 1940

The wreckage of a German Heinkel 1-11 bomber shot down by three Hurricanes of 43 Squadron. The aircraft crashed landed close to Bannial Flat Farm, Whitby. 3rd February 1940

A German bomber shot down by a RAF fighter, caught in a barrage balloon seen here spiralling to earth over Southern England. Circa August 1940

Russian soldiers examine the trench in the Reich Chancellery Gardens, Berlin, were the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were burnt following their suicides in the Fuhrer bunker on the 30th April

"Deck landing"training of Fleet Air Arm pilots at a Royal Naval Air Station
" Deck landing" training of Fleet Air Arm pilots at a Royal Naval Air Station. Photo shows: Pilots scramble. Naval Swordfish ranged on the deck at a naval shore station for immediate take

Major General Jim Gavin, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium, walks down La-Ne where troops of the 508th Regiment wiped out a battalion of attacking SS troops during

While the gaping bow doors of amphibious assault craft spew forth more men and supplies, US troops and Coast Guardsmen fill sand bags for gun emplacements on Leyte Island in the central Philippines

An RAF Hawker Hurricane in flight during the Second World War. Circa 1941

American troops of the 34th Infantry Division landing on the beaches at Surcouf, twenty miles east of Algiers, 9th November 1942

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots in training exercises during the Second World War. Picture shows: Wheeling out the torpedo to be fitted to their aircraft. March 1941

This British Hurricane aircraft has been presented by the RAF to the Major General commanding the Northern Red Fleet Air Arm, who is sitting in the cockpit of the plane. Circa 1943

Hurricane fighter planes, equipped with special anti-tank guns, accounted. for many enemy tanks in the Western Desert. Picture shows

Lady MacRobert of Douneside, Tarland, Aberdeenshire has presented the RAF with four Hurricanes which will soon be in action in the Middle East. Three are named after airman sons killed in action

Fighter support planes circle round a New Zealand column in the Western Desert during the battle of Egypt. August 1942

Picture taken on board the British Escort carrier Campania during a recent British convoy to and from Russia when a U-boat was sunk

Monsoon rain turns this airfield in Assam into a morass, but maintenance and repair work on the aircraft continues. August 1944

A formation of Hawker Hurricane fighters of Number 85 Squadron in search of enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. October 1940

Five topicalised Hurricane Mark IICs of No. 94 Squadron RAF based at El Gamil, Egypt, flying in loose starboard echelon formation

St DunstanOs men are now working in our aircraft factories. In the foreground, left to right, are Private Ernest Callow, R.W

British Warships and bombers and "Commandos"were landed under cover of smoke
British Warships and bombers and " Commandos" were landed under cover of smoke screens'. Norwegian troops also took part in the operation which resulted in the destruction of 15

On the Adriatic sector of the Eighth Army front north of Faenza, Italy, Lieutenant G. Sherman, of Sutton, Surrey, in charge of a mortar platoon

Group Captain Scott OBE, DSO, DFC, led a recent attack by RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force Typhoon on a hidden gun position at Le Havre, Northern France

One of the features of the fighting in France has been the close support given to the Army by RAF fighter bombers. The Typhoon fighter bomber now carries two 1, 000 lb bombs on certain operations

An RAF Typhoon aircraft patrolling the skies over a convoy after taking off from an airfield in Normandy, Northern France. July 1944

Soldier taking advantage of cover as he fires his gun in a South Wales training exercise during the Second World War. October 1941

Caldari, which occupies a strategic positions on the Ortona- Orsogna lateral road and railway, was occupied by the Indian and Home County infantry men serving With the 8th Army

Combined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U. K
Combined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U.K. Special Service Troops carried out the raid with a detachment of a U.S

A sub-machine gun in one hand and a grenade in the other, a US soldier marches at the head of his men in pursuit of Japanese defenders of New Britain Island the Southwest Pacific

Men of the Royal Northumberland fusiliers have recently undergone practice exercises at beach landing on invasion lines. Small boats are brought closely into shore

The thousandth enemy aircraft to be destroyed by the RAF in Malta was a Junkers 52, which fell to an American Fighter Pilot commanding one of the islands Spitfire Squadrons

Spitfire and Royal Air force ground crew on Capodichino airfield, Naples, Italy after the citys capture. It suffered heavily during the previous Allied bombing campaigns as a target for Axis aircraft

Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA, P7895 RN-N, of No 72 Squadron, based at Acklington, Northumberland, in flight over the coast, piloted by Flight Lieutenant R Deacon Elliot. circa April 1941

Co-operating Naval and RAF ground crews re-arm a Spitfire plane on an aerodrome in Malta during the Second World War. 25th August 1942

British troops continue to land on the beach-heads of Normandy, Northern France to support their comrades who made the crossing the previous day as part of the Allied D-Day landings

Fighter aircraft of the RAF based on the Anzio beachhead have co-operated with the ground forces, first in defending the bridgehead from German counter-attack

British and Canadian troops enter the liberated town of Falaise, Northern France. The Falaise Pocket was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy

Private Morris of Acton, London, part of the British Airborne troops in Holland, on guard at Divisional Headquarters. The Airborne flag, bearing Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology

Private J. Connington of Selby, Yorkshire fighting with the 1st Allied Airborne Army in Holland with his Sten Gun. 20th September 1944

Member of the Army Reconnaissance Corps. 27th September 1942

Naval ratings undergoing training with Tommy guns for the first time. 29th November 1940

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