"On 8 May 1943 my turn came to go and the fourteen months of incarcera...
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"Venus" the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART, 1941. A399...
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'c' (howitzer) Battery of Cxvii (howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artill...
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'demob' Farewell at Royal Naval Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset, 18 ...
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'make Do and Mend' in Britain during the Second World War HU36215
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'raise the Standard' of War Savings Art.IWMPST16385
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'ware Hitler's Greatest Ally Art.IWMPST14196
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(14th Army Breaks Japanese Counterstroke in the Arakan- Battle of the ...
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(askaris Training in Ceylon) (allocated) JFU151
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(evacuation of 'special Force' Mules and Men by Waterborne Craft Made ...
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10 Squadron RAAF Short Sunderland Mk.II W3984 RB-S in 1942 - RAF 1939-...
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1 Mark AM Cwest - Public domain banknote scan
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2-pounder multiple pom-pom and crew on HMS Zulu WWII IWM A 911
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20mm Oerlikon training on HMS Rodney WWII IWM A 6264
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240 (Shropshire) Battery, 51st (Midland) Medium Regiment
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2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Attack Mohnyin JFU119
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3-inch gun crew of 303rd Battery, 99th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal A...
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3.7-inch guns of 60th (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment fi...
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3RD HUSSARS IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR MH3802
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428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, Dece...
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428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, Dece...
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42nd Armoured Division Exercise, Near Malton in Yorkshire, 29 Septembe...
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487 Squadron RNZAF - A black and white photo of a group of men in fron...
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5.5-inch guns firing in support of the Rhine crossing, 24 March 1945. ...
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6-inch howitzers towed by AEC Matador artillery tractors of 79th (The ...
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6-inch naval gun overlooking Reykjavik Bay in Iceland, August 1940. H3...
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6-pdr anti-tank gun of the 4th Hallamshires, 49th Division, guarding t...
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6TH SOUTH AFRICAN ARMOURED DIVISION IN TRAINING IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 2 ...
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74th Medium Regiment in Italy, World War II photo
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830 Squadron Barracuda taking off from HMS Furious at the start of Ope...
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8th Army Front- Italian Partisan Leader Honoured NA22066
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A 17-pdr anti-tank gun in action in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, 13 Ma...
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A 2-inch mortar team of 1st Battalion, The Caribbean Regiment in Egypt...
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A 3-inch gun crew of 303rd Battery, 99th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal...
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A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kents in action ...
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A 3.7 Anti-aircraft Gun of 393-72 Haa Regt, Ra, Cmf Art.IWMARTLD4064
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A 4-inch gun of 177 Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery, being fired at For...
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A 4-inch mobile gun at Littlestone-on-Sea, near Dungeness in Kent, 29 ...
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A 4.2-inch mortar of 1st Infantry Brigade's support group, firing in s...
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A 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and crew near Douai, France, November ...
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A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 TR1500
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A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 TR1501
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A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 TR1502
A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 Gunner Kelford, of Buckley, Chester, the gun layer, at the 5.5 inch gun, near Sessa Aurunca, Garigliano River Valley, Italy.
A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 TR1503
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A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 TR1504
A 5.5 Inch Gun Crew on the Italian Front, 10 January 1944 Observation Post Officer, Major Price, of Effingham Park, Crawley Down, Sussex, looks out across the Garigliano from a watchman's hut in a disused bauxi... More
A 6-pdr anti-tank gun portee, camouflaged to look like an ordinary lor...
A 6-pdr anti-tank gun portee, camouflaged to look like an ordinary lorry, North Africa, 27 October 1942. A 6-pdr anti-tank gun semi-armoured portee, camouflaged to look like an ordinary lorry, 27 October 1942. ... More
A 7.2-inch howitzer in action during the attack on Bardia, 31 December...
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A Barrack-room in Iceland Art.IWMARTLD1695
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A battery of 25-pdr field guns ready to fire from a "Z" Craft on the M...
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A boat load of Royal Engineers leaves HMS CAIRO on board a Motor Fishi...
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A Bofors gunner writing a Christmas card for home, Holland, 8 December...
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A bomb damaged house is brought down with high explosives to reproduce...
A bomb damaged house is brought down with high explosives to reproduce the destruction of a building by bombing during tests on the Morrison indoor shelter in 1941. A two storey house is brought down with high ... More
A bomb-damaged house in Gosport after a German air raid on 12 August 1...
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A Bren gunner of the 1st Gordon Highlanders in action near Nieuwkuik, ...
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A British 'Pheasant' 17-pdr anti-tank gun in action on the Medenine fr...
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A British 17-pdr anti-tank gun and Sherman tank near Cassino, Italy, 1...
A British 17-pdr anti-tank gun and Sherman tank near Cassino, Italy, 17 May 1944. A 17-pdr anti-tank gun and crew near Cassino, 17 May 1944. A Sherman tank can be seen in the background.
A British Army 15-cwt truck throws up a cloud of sand and dust while m...
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A British Army doctor examines patients at a casualty clearing station...
A British Army doctor examines patients at a casualty clearing station in Tunisia, February 1943.
A British Army mule train transports supplies in the Italian mountains...
A British Army mule train transports supplies in the Italian mountains, 21 November 1943. A British Army mule train transports supplies in the Italian mountains.
A British Bren gun crew in a trench at Anzio, Italy, 13 March 1944. NA...
A British Bren gun crew in a trench at Anzio, Italy, 13 March 1944. A British Bren gun crew keep watch in a trench at Anzio.
A British infantry patrol cautiously approaches a damaged building in ...
A British infantry patrol cautiously approaches a damaged building in a Burmese village, 1944. A patrol cautiously approaches a damaged building.
A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geile...
A British infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944. The face of battle: an infantry sergeant during the advance into Germany near Geilenkirchen, 5 December 1944.
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Norman...
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Normandy, 9 August 1944. An infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, 9 August 1944.
A British infantryman takes the surrender of the crew of an enemy supp...
A British infantryman takes the surrender of the crew of an enemy supply truck in the Western Desert, 2 June 1942. An infantryman takes the surrender of the crew of an enemy supply truck in the Western Desert, ... More
A British jeep passes a sign warning against looting on the outskirts ...
A British jeep passes a sign warning against looting on the outskirts of Ravenna, Italy, 7 December 1944. A British jeep passes a sign warning against looting on the outskirts of Ravenna, Italy, 7 December 1944.
A British Light Tank Mk VI, wearing distinctive camouflage, on a firin...
A British Light Tank Mk VI, wearing distinctive camouflage, on a firing range on Malta, 24 March 1942. Light Tank Mk VI, wearing the distinctive Malta camouflage, on a firing range, 24 March 1942.
A British sailor signalling by hand held flash lamp aboard the Dutch T...
A British sailor signalling by hand held flash lamp aboard the Dutch Torpedo Boat Z 5 as it serves with the British Fleet. His dutch shipmate is looking out for the reply through a pair of binoculars, 1941. A B... More
A British Sherman tank advancing near Catania, Sicily, 4 August 1943. ...
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A British Sherman tank advancing through Imprunetta, Italy, 3 August 1...
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A British Sherman tank and jeep of 4th Armoured Brigade entering the r...
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A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captu...
A British soldier gives the "insult" version of a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942. A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El ... More
A British soldier inspects the grave of a German tank crewman, killed ...
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A British soldier inspects the wreckage of a goods train destroyed in ...
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A British soldier reads up on Sicily, the target for the next Allied i...
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