Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at Scampton, 22 July 1943.
View of the blasted tree stumps in Delville Wood, Somme, 1916
Universal carriers and lorries crossing the bridge at Nijmegen in Holland during Operation 'Market Garden', 21 September 1944.
Troops of the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (29th Division) marching to the trenches. Acheux-en-Amiénois, Somme, 27 June 1916.
Troops come ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches, past the White Ensign of a naval beach party, 7 June 1944.
Three Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.
The crew of HM Submarine UTMOST displaying their "Jolly Roger" at Holy Loch in Scotland after a successful year's service in the Mediterranean, 6 February 1942.
Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck, commanding No. 257 Squadron, in the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane at Martelsham Heath, November 1940.
Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme.
Sherman tanks of 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Battle of El Alamein, 5 November 1942.
Royal Marine Commandos of headquarters, 4th Special Service Brigade, making their way onto the 'Nan Red' sector of Juno Beach at St Aubin-sur-Mer, on the morning of 6 June 1944.
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.
Officers of 1/7th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment checking a map in trenches of the La Bassee Canal sector, 28 February 1918.
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment crossing newly won ground at Frezenburg in 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres.
Irish Guards wearing gasmasks advance through smoke with 'tommy guns' at the ready, at Nooks Head near Woking in Surrey, 8 July 1940.
HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982.
HMS CONQUEROR, the Churchill class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, underway in the early 1970s. In 1982, the submarine sank the Argentine cruiser ARA BELGRANO during the Falklands War.
HMS CONQUEROR at Faslane on 3 July 1982 after her deployment to the South Atlantic during which she sank the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO on 2 May 1982.
Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, standing in front of a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 234 Squadron SAAF.
British troops of the 17th Battalion, London Regiment, 47th Division, crossing a muddy area in the Ancre Valley, Somme, October 1916.
British troops advance to the attack through a cloud of poison gas as viewed from the trench which they have just left.
British paratroops inside a Dakota transport aircraft on their way to Holland during 1st Airborne Division's operation to Arnhem, 17 September 1944.