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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)
800 yards from the enemy lines, British infantry are entrenched on the 5th Army main front in Italy. By day they live under fire from enemy mortar shells
Following the liberation of Beek, Netherlands which was announced on 25th September, came one of the historic moments of this war
Vehicles tried unsuccessfully to get through to an isolated British outpost in Italy. Their tracks made excellent runs for these Canadian volunteer ski-troopers; saved them considerable trouble in
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
Men of the Royal Corps of Signals who provided the land communications required to co-ordinate the air offensive which made possible the Allied victory in Burma
The Battle of Kohima proved the turning point of the Japanese U-Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War
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
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
Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Norway, seen here at a dressing station in Vagsoy. 31st December 1941
Soldiers of the British Eighth Army take control of a town in Sicily following the Allied landings on the island in the Second World War. August 1943
Nigerian Sappers for the Royal West African Frontier Force. (Picture) African recruits trying on their Army boots for the first at the Engineers Training Centre, Bukuru, Northern Nigeria
On the FifthArmy Front in Italy during the Second World War. In their drive from the south towards Imola and Bologna, British troops of the 5th Army in Italy have captured Monte Penzola
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
The Channel Islands, the only part of the United Kingdom to be occupied during the Second World War, were finally liberated at 7.14 am on 9th May 1945 when Major General Heine of the german Army
Canadian guard hear a mission briefing outside a communal building in Barentsburg, as part of the raid on Spitsbergen. 9th September 1941
British army troops are now under canvas in an area of the Northern Command where they are camped on the banks of a river and being traded in the use of collapsable attack boats
Practical demonstrations of the effect and the methods of combatting gas spray from enemy aircraft are given to British Army troops
Norwegians waiting to be evacuated from the Svalbard Islands late one evening during the Spitzbergen Raid. 2nd September 1941
Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Vagsoy and Maloy, seen here examining a field gun. 1st January 1942
Allied supplies, tanks and mobile artillery crosses the Rhine during the Second World War. 28th March 1945
Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War. Canadian
Indian troops at a road junction during the battle for Keren. 26th April 1941
The Reconnaissance Corps, the "armed eyes"of the British ArmyThe Reconnaissance Corps, the " armed eyes" of the British Army, seek out the enemy and establishes preliminary contact
American soldiers looking at a wrecked school in Sandhurst Road, London. 22nd January 1943
A battalion of the Border Regiment serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Second World War. Photo shows: Troops following up a bombing attack in a wood in France
Soldiers recovering from their injuries help out on a Bedfordshire farm. 14th October 1944
The withdrawal from Dunkirk in Northern France showing British Expeditionary Force troops wading in the water to meet the rescue boats during the Second World War. June 1940
British Landings on Walcheren. The scene on the Walcheren coast after the allied landing. November 1944
RAF stations on the Iraq - Transjordan frontier are guarded by the famous Arab Legion of the Amir of Transjordan. Commanded by British Officers
Ten Jewish veterans of an all Palestinian RASC Company, having a very long record of service in the Western Desert and Italy, left Brussels on the night of 3rd November 1945 en route for Palestine
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya
Indian infantry and Bren carriers in Libya during the Second World War. 18th December 1941
Operation Compass (also la battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War
The Kings African Rifles split into two columns and marched around the U of the valley and met Vichy troops in the rear and then ambushed them
Winston Churchill visits Tripoli to thank troops of the 8th Army at Castel Benito airfield. 9th February 1943
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein
South African infantry search a ruined village for enemy soldiers near Bardia. 26th January 1942
British infantry pass a wrecked transport as they enter Benghazi during Second World War. 26th November 1942
South African troops charging a house in Sollum during the Second World War. 6th February 1942
Armoured cars of the South African Field Force pass ancient ruins in Cyrene during Second World War. 13th January 1942
Infantry waiting to advance into Tobruk which is seen in the background with fires burning. 9th February 1941
A British outpost in a wadi in Libya during the Second World War. 4th February 1942
Valentine tanks pass cheering civilians in Tripoli during the Second World War. 27th January 1943
Scottish gunner William Biggar goes shopping in Algiers during the Second World War. 13th November 1943
British mule train in Egypt during the Second World War. (Picture) Soldiers tracking through the desert with their mules and supplies. 8th December 1940
A base hospital in Algiers, Algeria during the Second World War. 13th November 1943
Men of the Sudanese Defence Force training in Africa during Second World War. 21st January 1944
