Historical Period - Second World War

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.

The Operations Room at RAF Fighter Command's No. 10 Group Headquarters, Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Wiltshire, showing WAAF plotters and duty officers at work, 1943.

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British commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, landing on 'Queen Red' sector of Sword Beach, at La Breche, on the morning of 6 June 1944.

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Train to be a Nurse

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Use Spades Not Ships

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Keep Mum - She's Not so Dumb! - Careless Talk Costs Lives

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A heavily-armed jeep patrol from 'L' Detachment SAS in North Africa, 18 January 1943.

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Potatoes - Feed Without Fattening and Give You Energy

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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.

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Together

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Children are Safer in the Country...Leave Them There

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Your Britain - Fight for it Now [South Downs]

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Never Was So Much Owed by So Many to So Few

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A Clear Plate Means a Clear Conscience - Don't Take More Than You Can Eat

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Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.

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Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet

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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock.

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British airborne troops moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek near Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 23 September 1944.

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For Progress in the Future - Save Now

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Mr Churchill Inspecting a 'Tommy' Gun, 31 July 1940

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Carrots Keep You Healthy and Help You to See in the Blackout

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Winston Churchill reads a newspaper on the platform at St Andrews railway station, during a tour of defences and naval forces in Scotland, 23 October 1940.

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Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945.

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