Sailors surround the ship's cat "Convoy" asleep in a miniature hammock on board HMS HERMIONE, Gibraltar, 26 November 1941.
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942.
Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, 21 November 1941.
Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942.
A soldier from No. 1 Commando climbs up a steep rock face during training at Glencoe in Scotland, 19 November 1941.
VE Day in London, 8 May 1945
Free French soldiers attend a mass at sunrise during the siege of Bardia in Libya, December 1940.
Paratroops drop from Dakota aircraft over the outskirts of Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 17 September 1944.
Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.
Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.
A vertical aerial photograph taken during a raid on Berlin on the night of 2/3 September 1941. The broad wavy lines are the tracks of German searchlights and anti-aircraft fire.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief of Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
A portrait by Cecil Beaton of the pilot and co-pilot of a Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron in 1941.
Civilians sheltering in Elephant and Castle London Underground Station during an air raid in November 1940.
Men of 7th Battalion, The Green Howards on an exercise among the sand dunes at Sandbanks, near Poole in Dorset, 31 July 1940.
Avro Lancaster Mk Is of No. 44 Squadron RAF, 29 September 1942.
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.
Six Hurricane Mark Is of No. 73 Squadron RAF, based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation.
A British sailor uses a sewing machine to repair a signal flag on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
The Supermarine Spitfire, 1938
The Battle of Britain, 1940
A view of 'Pegasus Bridge' over the Caen Canal at Benouville, 12 July 1944. Two of the Horsa gliders that brought the 'coup de main' force in on the night of D-Day can be seen in the background.
Aircrew and Wellington bombers of No. 149 Squadron RAF at Mildenhall, Suffolk, before a night raid over Germany, 10 May 1941.
