The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All
A heavily-armed jeep patrol from 'L' Detachment SAS in North Africa, 18 January 1943.
45 Royal Marine Commando marches towards Port Stanley during the Falklands War, 1982. Marine Peter Robinson carrys the Union Flag on his pack.
A Heinkel He 111 bomber flying over the East End of London at the start of the Luftwaffe's evening raids of 7 September 1940.
Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.
Take Off
Battle of Britain
Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane, CO of No. 19 Squadron (centre) confers with Flight Lieutenant Walter 'Farmer' Lawson and Flight Sergeant George 'Grumpy' Unwin at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940.
Venus' the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART, 1941.
Runway Perspective
Two Battle of Britain fighter pilots, Flight Lieutenant Brian Kingcome (left), commanding officer of No 92 Squadron RAF and his wingman, Flying Officer Geoffrey Wellum, next to a Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, 1941
Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945.
Wing Commander J E 'Johnnie' Johnson, commanding No. 144 (Canadian) Wing, on the the wing of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX with his Labrador retriever Sally, at Bazenville, Normandy, 31 July 1944.
Unveiling of the permanent Cenotaph at Whitehall, by His Majesty King George V, 11 November 1920.
Together
Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet
A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock.
Join the ATS
A British soldier stands besides the grave of a comrade near Pilckem during the Third Battle of Ypres, 22 August 1917.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb of No. 92 Squadron, 19 May 1941. This aircraft, serial R6923, was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on 22 June 1941.
A pilot at Fairlop airfield in Essex has a haircut during a break between sweeps. A Supermarine Spitfire is in the background.
Spitfires at Sawbridgeworth, Herts
British Scouts leaving their Aerodrome on Patrol, over the Asiago Plateau, Italy, 1918
Back Them Up!
