Armed Forces & Weapons

A Sherman tank crew of 'C' Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars rest and write letters home by the side of their vehicle, Normandy, 10 June 1944.

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A sergeant of the Lancashire Fusiliers in a flooded dugout opposite Messines near Ploegsteert Wood, January 1917.

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A line of British troops blinded by tear gas at an Advanced Dressing Station near Bethune, 10 April 1918.

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A Humber scout car and Comet tank of 11th Armoured Division in a devastated German town, 30 March 1945.

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A Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 Squadron RAF, 27 October 1943.

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A Harrier GR.3 of No. 3 Squadron camouflaged at RAF Gutersloh in Germany during the 1980s.

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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.

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A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort

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A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941.

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A captured German pillbox nicknamed 'Gibraltar' in the ruins of Pozieres, Somme, 20th September.

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A Canadian soldier keeping cool in a home made tub in the shelling area.

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A British Pilot in a BE2C approaching Hit along the course of the River Euphrates, July 1919.

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A Beaufighter being de-iced

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A barbed wire gate in a trench system to form a block against raiders at Cambrin, 16 September 1917.

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9.2 inch howitzers of the 148th Siege Battery, RGA at Maricourt, September 1916.

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'An Air Gunner In A Gun-turret : Sergeant G Holmes, D.F.M'

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Zayem Svobody - Voyna Do Pobyedy [Freedom Loan- War until Victory]

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Working party of British troops on muddy ground near Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916

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Winston Churchill with his daughter Sarah, on a visit to his old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, in Egypt, 5 December 1943.

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Winston Churchill wearing leather ear defenders watches gunnery practice on board HMS RENOWN whilst he was returning from Canada, September 1943.

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Winston Churchill flanked by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding 21st Army Group, at Monty's mobile headquarters in Normandy, 12 June 1944.

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Winston Churchill discussing the battle situation in Italy with the Commander of the Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese (left) and the Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean, General Sir Harold Alexander, 26 August 1944.

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Winston Churchill delivers an informal speech to men of his old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, at Loreto aerodrome in Italy, 25 August 1944.

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Wing Commander Richard 'Dickie' Milne in the cockpit of his Spitfire Mk IX at Biggin Hill, February 1943.

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