Raid Collection (page 4)

Photograph taken during a daylight raid on the Renault automotive works at Le Mans, France, by De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IVs of Nos. 105 and 139 Squadrons RAF

A slightly wounded and shaken waist gunner is led from his place by his flight surgeon Captain Leonard G. Morley of 5913 99th Avenue South East Portland

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

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

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

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

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

In two attacks Allied heavy and medium bombers recently destroyed, a heavily fortified strongpoint at Ningthoukhong in Burma

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

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

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

When Allied landing forces established the beachhead at Nettuno, Italy, B-26 Marauders bombers of the United States Army 12th Air Force gave support to the operations by bombing vital communications

US Navy planes destroy Japanese installations on Luzon. Circa January 1945

Bombing of the Ishigaki airfield in Okinawa by a British fleet carrier. June 1945

Allied bombing raid against Japanese shipping in Chumphon, Thailand. February 1945

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

A fragment cut from an enemy aircraft which this RAF squadron shot down is used for recording the number of enemy aircraft destroyed

A sergeant pilot of one of the two "East India"squadrons of the RAF
A sergeant pilot of one of the two " East India" squadrons of the RAF, smiles as he return safely from a successful mission in his Spitfire fighter plane during the Second World War

A long range fighter squadron of the Royal Air Force operating off the North African coast has added tow JU 52s, shot down by two Sergeant pilots, to its score of successes

Air War in Libya, North Africa during the Second World War. Picture shows" Pilot taking a rest in the desert after bringing down his thirteenth victim

Captain Frank H. Carruthers R. A. squadron searchlight officer to a night fighter RAF
Captain Frank H. Carruthers R.A. squadron searchlight officer to a night fighter RAF Squadron in the home counties, talking to pilots prior to an operation during the Second World War. May 1944

British forces have carried out a raid on the French Coast near Boulogne. Troops were landed and after penetrating the German defences carried out their reconnaissance mission

Land-Air co-operation is an essential of victory in this modern war of 3 elements. Planes act as " flying artillery" in the van of attacking forces

"We will give it to them back"was the promise made to the bombed civilians of
" We will give it to them back" was the promise made to the bombed civilians of a stricken British City by the Prime Minister. That promise is already being redeemed by the Royal Air Force

RAF and USaF Give Germans 24 hour bomb service in Italy during the Second World War. RAF Wellington bombers and USaF Flying Fortresses operating from the same airfields in Italy are bombing the same

Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO, Commander-in-Chef Allied Expeditionary Air Force, paid a visit to France

Heavy aircraft of RAF Bomber Command - Stirlings, Halifax, and Manchester - made a daylight attack upon the Nazi pocket-battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau

Flying Fortresses of the US Eighth Army Air Force attack Heinkel aircraft plant at Warnemunde on the Baltic coast on 29th July 1943. Picture taken early in the attack of the German aircraft works

An air view of the Renault works at Billancourt, a suburb of Paris on the Seinne, before it was bombed by aircraft of Bomber Command, RAF, on the night of 3rd March 1942

Aircraft of Bomber Command RAF attack industrial works in Paris, occupied France during the Second World War. Picture taken the following day at low altitude shows the damage done to the works

On the night of 27th May 1944, RAF Bomber Command attacked a six gun coastal defence battery at Saint Valery en Caux in Normandy, Northern France

A daylight photograph taken by the RAF after the attack on the Matford Motor Works at Poissy near Paris, France on the night of 2nd April 1942, the second night in succession

A daylight photograph taken after the attack by Bomber Command RAF on the Matford Motor Works at Poissy near Paris, France on 2nd April 1942

Bombs bursting on the railway station and sidings during a daylight attack by RAF Bomber Command on Saint Omer in Northern France

On the night of 28th May 1944, RAF Bomber Command attacked another coastal defence battery at Saint Martin de Varreville in Normandy, Northern France

An aerial view of the Renault works at Billancourt, a suburb of Paris on the River Seine, after it was bombed by aircraft of Bomber Command, RAF, on the night of 3rd March 1942

Great damage was done by the recent precision attacks of RAF Bomber Command on the important French railway installations at Amiens, Le Mans, and Trappes

Pictorial record made of a daylight attack by Stirlings of RAF Bomber Command on an enemy target in occupied France during the Second World War. 27th August 1941

Aircraft of RAF Bomber Command attacked the airfield at Tours, France, on the night of 7th - 8th May 1944. Earlier, aircraft of 8th US Fighter Command attacked this airfield on 28th April

In a daylight attack on Cherbourg, Northern France on 15th September 1942, 15 Boston bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked the whale oil ship " Sololimt" in the Bassin Napoleon III

RAF Baltimores of the Tactical Bomber Force in operation over the Sangro river battle area in Eastern Central Italy, attacked German defensive positions near Lanciano on the Sangro ridge

Part of the huge armada of RAF planes pictured before setting off from Britain for the Northern French Coast, ready to assist the Allied Forces during the D-Day Normandy landings. 6th June 1944

Allied Combined Operation from 25th August until 3rd September 1941, codenamed Operation Gauntlet, where Canadian, British

Pictures taken yesterday on 11th April 1945 showing RAF bomb damage at Hanover, Germany. The " machsee" (large Lake), south of Hanover which had been camouflaged with floating wood slats

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