Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.
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.
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Battle of Britain
Avro Lancaster Mk Is of No. 44 Squadron RAF, 29 September 1942.
Armourers wheel trolleys of 500-lb GP bombs toward the open bomb bay of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V.
Avro Lancaster Mk I of No. 83 Squadron, based at Scampton in Lincolnshire, June 1942.
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De Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI of No. 544 Squadron RAF, 26 July 1944.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark Is of No. 610 Squadron based at Biggin Hill, flying in 'vic' formation, 24 July 1940.
A Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 Squadron RAF, 27 October 1943.
Short Stirling Mk IVs of Nos. 196 and 299 Squadrons RAF lining the runway at Keevil in Wiltshire, before emplaning paratroops of the 5th Parachute Brigade Group for the invasion of Normandy, 5 June 1944.
North American Mustang Mark IIIs of No. 19 Squadron RAF based at Ford, Sussex, 21 April 1944.
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British Scouts leaving their Aerodrome on Patrol, over the Asiago Plateau, Italy, 1918
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An Air Gunner in Action Turret: Night
Rocket-firing Typhoons at the Falaise Gap, Normandy, 1944
Fighter Affiliation : Halifax and Hurricane aircraft co-operating in action
A portrait by Cecil Beaton of the pilot and co-pilot of a Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron in 1941.
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.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 2 Squadron SAAF based at Palata, Italy, flying in loose line astern formation over the Adriatic Sea while on a bombing mission to the Sangro River battlefront.
Six Hurricane Mark Is of No. 73 Squadron RAF, based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation.
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