Historical Period - Second World War

Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.

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The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

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Use Spades Not Ships

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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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Your Britain - Fight for it Now [South Downs]

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

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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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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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Better Pot Luck Than Humble Pie - Don't Waste Food!

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Going to Work

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Battle of Britain

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

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Women of Britain - Come into the Factories

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

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

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Colonel David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service, with an SAS jeep patrol in North Africa, 18 January 1943.

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

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Your Britain - Fight for it Now

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Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring

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The Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940

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The western bell towers of St Paul's Cathedral in London seen through an archway after the heavy incendiary raid of 29 December 1940.

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Potatoes - Feed Without Fattening and Give You Energy

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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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Train to be a Nurse

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