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Have been there to the current Army Barracks. Stayed in the mess to go on the lash in Nottingham.
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Have been there to the current Army Barracks. Stayed in the mess to go on the lash in Nottingham.
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Some of the Belgian pilots from 609 Squadron RAF, in late 1941, possibly at Biggin Hill.
l-r: Louis van Arenberg (KIA 1945), Jean Selys de Longchamps (KIA 16/8/43), Francois de Spirlet (KIFA 26/6/42), Jean "Pyker" Offenberg (KIFA 22/1/42), Christian Ortmans (KIA 1/4/43) and Raymond Lallemant (14/9/44, badly burned but survived)
l-r: Louis van Arenberg (KIA 1945), Jean Selys de Longchamps (KIA 16/8/43), Francois de Spirlet (KIFA 26/6/42), Jean "Pyker" Offenberg (KIFA 22/1/42), Christian Ortmans (KIA 1/4/43) and Raymond Lallemant (14/9/44, badly burned but survived)
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U-185 sinking after depth bombed by an American aircraft.
SS Division Leibstandard Adolf Hitler wallowing in mud Vinnitsa region, 1943
Girls at a London bomb shelter wear splinter and fire shields during blitz, 1941
American amphibious assault on Palau, 1944
SS Division Leibstandard Adolf Hitler wallowing in mud Vinnitsa region, 1943
Girls at a London bomb shelter wear splinter and fire shields during blitz, 1941
American amphibious assault on Palau, 1944
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Men of the West Yorkshire Regiment sitting in a captured German pill box waiting to go into action, near the St Julien - Grafenstafel road during the Battle of Polygon Wood, 26 September - 3 October 1917, part of the Battle of Passchendaele.
Photograph taken by Lieutenant Ernest Brooks.
© IWM (Q 2903)/artistic rendition 2025.
Photograph taken by Lieutenant Ernest Brooks.
© IWM (Q 2903)/artistic rendition 2025.
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