Winston Churchill stops 'Blackie', ship's cat of HMS PRINCE OF WALES, crossing over to a US destroyer during the Atlantic Conference, August 1941.
Sailors surround the ship's cat "Convoy" asleep in a miniature hammock on board HMS HERMIONE, Gibraltar, 26 November 1941.
Paratroops drop from Dakota aircraft over the outskirts of Arnhem during Operation 'Market Garden', 17 September 1944.
Men of the Long Range Desert Group relax with cigarettes after returning to headquarters at the end of a desert patrol, Siwa, Libya, 1942
Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.
A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942.
A portrait by Cecil Beaton of the pilot and co-pilot of a Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron in 1941.
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
VE Day in London, 8 May 1945
Supermarine Spitfire Mark Is of No. 610 Squadron based at Biggin Hill, flying in 'vic' formation, 24 July 1940.
Roll Call of the 2nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, on the afternoon of the first day of the Battle of the Somme near Beaumont Hamel. The insignia on their sleeves indicates that they were part of the attacking force.
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942.
Supermarine Spitfire PRXI 'Thank U NHS' Spitfire.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V 249 Sqn RAF based at Ta Qali airfield, Malta 1943
Free French soldiers attend a mass at sunrise during the siege of Bardia in Libya, December 1940.
Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, 21 November 1941.
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.
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 2 Squadron SAAF based at Palata, Italy, flying in loose line astern formation over the Adriatic Sea while on a bombing mission to the Sangro River battlefront.
Still from the British film "The Battle of the Somme".
Six Hurricane Mark Is of No. 73 Squadron RAF, based at Rouvres, France, flying in loose echelon formation.
Sherman tanks of 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Battle of El Alamein, 5 November 1942.
Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942.
