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History of the Imperial War Museum: The Bethlem Royal Hospital

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Hitler Will Send No Warning

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HM King George V, on Wytschaete Ridge in Belgium on 4 July 1917 during a tour of the Western Front.

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HM Submarine TAKU returns home after a year's successful service in the Mediterranean, 3 August 1943.

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HMS ANTELOPE at Ascension Island, ten days before she was sunk by Argentine bombs in San Carlos Water in the Falklands War, May 1982.

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HMS Ark Royal in Action

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HMS Belfast arriving in the Pool of London

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HMS BELFAST at anchor in Sydney harbour, August 1945.

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HMS BRAVE BORDERER, a fast patrol boat, during trials in the Solent, January 1960.

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HMS CONQUEROR at Faslane on 3 July 1982 after her deployment to the South Atlantic during which she sank the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO on 2 May 1982.

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HMS CONQUEROR, the Churchill class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, underway in the early 1970s. In 1982, the submarine sank the Argentine cruiser ARA BELGRANO during the Falklands War.

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HMS EAGLE and HMS MALAYA in the Mediterranean during Operation 'Spotter', which delivered 16 RAF Spitfire Mk Vs to Malta on 7th March 1942.

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HMS Glorious in the Arctic

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HMS GLOWWORM makes smoke as she attempts to attack the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER during the Norwegian campaign, 8 April 1940. The destroyer was sunk when she rammed the German ship.

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HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982.

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HMS HERMES returns to Portsmouth from the Falklands, 21 July 1982.

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HMS Kashmir, 1941.

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HMS MAURITIUS firing during a night action against enemy ships off the French coast between Brest and Lorient, 23 August 1944.

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HMS RESOLUTION, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine to be equipped with Polaris missiles, seen underway on the surface probably off the Scottish coast c. 1970.

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