Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis gun in a trench near Messines in Belgium during January 1917.
Men of the 2nd Australian Division in the front line at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, 18 May 1916.
Members of the O'Rourke family sleeping in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London during November 1940.
Make-Do and Mend
Let Your Shopping Help Our Shipping
Lend a Hand on the Land at a Farming Holiday Camp
Kite balloons of No. 1 Balloon Training Unit await their handlers, during the morning parade in No. 1 Airship Shed at Cardington, October 1940.
King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944.
Italian civilians clambering over the ruins of the Ponte Alle Grazia, one of the bridges over the River Arno destroyed by the Germans before evacuating Florence, 14 August 1944.
Into Action
Interior of RAF Fighter Command's Sector 'G' Operations Room at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, September 1940.
Icicles hanging from the roof of a dug-out Bernafay Wood, Somme, November 1916.
Hurricane Mk IIBs of 'B' Flight, No. 601 Squadron, based at Duxford, 21 August 1941.
HQ of 1st Airlanding Light Regiment, Royal Artillery, unload a jeep and trailer from their Horsa glider at the landing zone near Wolfheze in Holland, during Operation 'Market Garden', 17 September 1944.
Horse-drawn ammunition limbers pass through the ruined village of Longueval, Somme, September 1916
Home Fleet Cruisers in the Firth of Forth
HMS RESOLUTION, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine to be equipped with Polaris missiles, seen underway on the surface probably off the Scottish coast c. 1970.
His Needs Come First
His Action Station - Saving is Everybody's War Job
Hawker Sea Hurricanes of the Fleet Air Arm, based at RNAS Yeovilton, flying in formation, 9 December 1941.
Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery loading 18-pounder shells into limbers. Acheux, Somme, July 1916.
Groundcrew refuelling a Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 29 April 1942.
Ground staff refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940.
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