A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
A Chance-Vought Corsair landing aboard HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, December 1943.
A child using a hammer and chisel to remove a piece of the Berlin Wall after its opening by the East German Government on 9 November 1989.
A Churchill tank of 51st Royal Tank Regiment crashes through a hedge during the advance across the Italian countryside, 20 July 1944.
A Clear Plate Means a Clear Conscience - Don't Take More Than You Can Eat
A CMP truck and motorcycle of 11th Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company), 1st Armoured Division, Tunisia, 22 April 1943.
A company of WAAFs marches past a barrage balloon maintenance hangar, RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1941
A Convoy in the Channel
A crewman on board an RAF Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson of No. 269 Squadron, using an F.24 camera during an ice patrol from Kaldadarnes in Iceland, 5 May 1942.
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort
A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945.
A De Havilland Mosquito IIF DD739/RX-X of No 456 Squadron
A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock.
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
A female munitions worker is lifted into the barrel of a 15-inch naval gun manufactured at the Ordnance Works, Coventry, during the First World War, in order to clean the rifling.
A female worker operates a winch at a shipbuilding yard on the River Clyde in Scotland during the First World War.
A few words from a fellow pilot before the engine-start of Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX,
A Flight Lieutenant bomb-aimer of No 223 Squadron, Royal Air Force checks over his bomb sight
A Flying-bomb over Tower Bridge
A Fordson Armoured Car of No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF waits outside Baghdad, while negotiations for an armistice take place between British officials and the rebel government during the Iraqi Revolt, May 1941.
A gas sentry ringing an alarm at Fleurbaix, June 1916.
A general view of a warehouse containing 12" shells at the National Filling Factory, Chilwell.
A graphic line-up of all the personnel required to keep one Avro Lancaster of RAF Bomber Command flying on operations, taken at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 11 June 1942.
A ground crewman helps a pilot of No. 601 Squadron RAF into the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX at Venafro, Italy, 12 May 1944.