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.
Battle of Britain
Avro Lancaster Mk I of No. 83 Squadron, based at Scampton in Lincolnshire, June 1942.
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.
Back Them Up!
British Scouts leaving their Aerodrome on Patrol, over the Asiago Plateau, Italy, 1918
Take Off
Rocket-firing Typhoons at the Falaise Gap, Normandy, 1944
Runway Perspective
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.
Join the Royal Air Force
De Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI of No. 544 Squadron RAF, 26 July 1944.
Armourers replenish the ammunition in a Hawker Hurricane Mk I of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 7 September 1940.
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1 of No. 19 Squadron RAF being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, near Duxford, September 1940.
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.
Ground staff refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940.
An Air Gunner in Action Turret: Night
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.
