Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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RAF flying in formation training early in the war when training resources were scarce. (1941, I think)

Telegraph line being repaired - somewhere in India, 1944.

 

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Spitfire V (tropical) of RAF 253 Squadron and 32 Squadron. Italy 1944

 

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Supermarine Seafire being brought up onto the flight deck of HMS Furious, August 1944. Possibly during Operation Goodwood to attack the German battleship Tirpitz at anchor in Kåfjorden, Norway

 

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New Zealand soldiers from 22nd Motorised Battalion, 4 (NZ) Armoured Bde. advance through a smokescreen at Cassino Italy - 15 March 1944

 

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Troops of 1 Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), 9th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, firing a captured Hotchkiss machine gun during street fighting in Caen, 10 July 1944.

 

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26 March 1945, Winston Churchill crossed the Rhine into the heartland of Germany on a U.S. Navy landing craft. The American coxswain reported that the prime minister did not say anything notable on the journey. Churchill only took the cigar out of his mouth to spit in the Rhine.

 

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Comet of the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 29th Armoured Brigade, in the Weser bridgehead - 7 April 1945
The infantry are from the 159th Infantry Brigade, together the two brigades formed the 11th Armoured Division.