Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Short Stirling and Halifax in Belfast, during 'Wings for Victory' savings week, 1943

 

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A member of No. 9 Commando at Anzio, equipped for a patrol with his Bren gun, 5 March 1944.

 

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Sailors in Flower-class corvette HMCS Matapedia listen to a shipmate play the bagpipes while escorting a North Atlantic Convoy in 1941/42

 

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Dorset Regiment, walk past a knocked-out M3 Lee Medium Tank as they make their way to the foot of Mount Popa, Burma - April 20, 1945

 

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After capturing May-Sur-Orne these Canadian troops take a well earned rest before pushing on. 1944

 

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Gun crew with the Priest M-7 self-propelled gun A3 "The Wacky Seven" of the 19th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (R.C.A.), France, July 1944.

 

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Coastal Command Convoy attack. In April 1943 No 144 Squadron joined with No 404 Squadron RCAF to form a second Beaufighter strike wing, based at Wick. The two units flew their first operation together on 27 April, when they attacked a convoy off Norway. One large merchant ship was hit by at least three torpedoes, one of which is seen exploding in this photograph. No Beaufighters were lost.ddd

 

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RAAF Bristol Beaufort Mk.V torpedo bombers in flight over the Australian coastline, circa 1942.

RAAF Bristol Beaufort Mk.V torpedo bombers in flight over the 90 mile beach, Victoria (Australia), circa 1942.

 

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Hawker Typhoon Mk IB of No. 486 Squadron RAF (1943)

 

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The pilot of a Taylorcraft Auster AOP (Air Observation Post) aircraft of No. 65 Squadron receives his orders, 28 April 1943

 

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Civilian workers pose with sections of an Airspeed Horsa glider, as received from the manufacturers, before assembling it at No. 6 Maintenance Unit, RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, 26 April 1944

 

[uktabber]

WOW mate, great photo!!! Thanks for posting

 

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Two RAF Bristol Beauforts patrolling the British coast near St Eval, Cornwall in 1942

 

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Corporal Alexander McHutchison and Private Patrick McKenna both of the 2/13th Battalion, 2nd AIF after the 241 day siege of Tobruk. Both survived the war

 

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A Hawker Typhoon prepares for a sortie. Ground crewman helps Flying Officer Lawrence Jackson with his parachute, while another warms up his 182 Squadron Typhoon for him. Airfield B86 Helmond, Holland, March 1945

 

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Infantrymen of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, who wear full British snow camouflage kit, go on patrol near Nijmegen, Netherlands, 22 January 1945.

 

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Three members of the Australian Army who were awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the Pacific Theatre.
From the left they are Sergeant Reginald Rattey, Privates Frank John Partridge and Richard Kelliher. All 3 survived the war, Frank Partridge died in a car crash aged 39

 

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Signalman H.G. Gladstone, B Company, 2/5 Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF with his kitten ‘Tiger’. He found the kitten in a deserted village at Malba and it is content to ride on his shoulder. New Guinea 1945

 

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April 1943, Goubrine, Tunisia. Flight Lieutenant Pentland from 417 Squadron RCAF in his Spitfire V "AN-T". Not colourised