The mushroom cloud generated during Britain's first hydrogen bomb test over Malden Island in the Central Pacific, dropped by a Royal Air Force Valiant bomber, 15 May 1957.
The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel. First day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
The Ice Patrol Ship HMS ENDURANCE at Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 25 May 1982.
The crew of a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debriefed by the intelligence officer at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berlin of 22/23 November 1943.
The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, at his desk at the War Office, 1942.
The Big Three': Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin sit for photographs during the Yalta Conference in February 1945.
The Battle of Pilckem Ridge: Crossing the Yser Canal at Boesinghe, 31st July 1917.
Tank F4, 'Flirt II', at the Tank Driving School at Wailly on 21 October 1917, in training for the Battle of Cambrai.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk VBs of No. 122 Squadron RAF take off from Hornchurch, Essex, for a fighter sweep over France, May 1942.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa aircraft of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, 6 April 1942.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXs of No. 242 Squadron RAF at Calenzana, Corsica, after a patrol over the invasion beaches in southern France, 17 August 1944.
Squadron Leader M.G.F. Pedley, the CO of No. 131 Squadron RAF, about to set out on a sweep in his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB from Merston, a satellite airfield of Tangmere in Sussex, June 1942.
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940.
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader with pilots of No. 242 Squadron in front of his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940.
Spitfire Mark VB, AD233 'ZD-F', being flown by the Commanding Officer of No.222 Squadron RAF, Squadron Leader Richard Milne, when based at North Weald, Essex.
Soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis Gun. On the left can be seen the gas alarm horn and wind vane. January 1917 near Ploegsteert.
Short Sunderland Mk I of No. 210 Squadron RAF based at Oban in Scotland, escorting a Canadian troop convoy into Greenock, 31 July 1940.
Short Stirling Mk IVs of Nos. 196 and 299 Squadrons RAF lining the runway at Keevil in Wiltshire, before emplaning paratroops of the 5th Parachute Brigade Group for the invasion of Normandy, 5 June 1944.
Sherman tanks move up past a crash-landed Spitfire, for an attack on Tilly-sur-Seulles, Normandy, 17 June 1944.
Sherman DD tanks of 'B' Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars support men of No. 4 Army Commando on the Rue de Riva- Bella in Ouistreham, 6 June 1944.
Sherman DD tanks of 'B' Squadron, 13th/18th Royal Hussars support men of No. 4 Army Commando advancing towards Ouistreham on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Sergeant Bohumil Furst of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron is greeted by the squadron mascot on returning to Duxford after a sortie in his Hawker Hurricane Mk I, 7 September 1940.
Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into Short Stirling bomber N6101
Roll call of the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on the afternoon of 1 July 1916, following their assault on Beaumont Hamel during the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.
