Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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A pair of British soldiers enjoy a cigarette outside the Colosseo while on leave in Rome, June 1944.
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A Canadian M10 Wolverine 3-inch self-propelled gun supports an attack by 48 RM Commando on the German strongpoint WN 26 at Langrune-sur-Mer, circa 1130 hrs, 7 June 1944. A Centaur tank of No. 4 Battery, 2nd Armoured Support Regiment, Royal Marines Armoured Support Group, disabled by a mine, can be seen in the background. The officer in the foreground is Lieutenant-Colonel R Moulton, commanding 48 RM Commando.
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A BL 5.5" Medium Gun of the Royal artillery being hauled along a typically unmetalled Italian track in wintry conditions to a new firing position near San Clemente, 13th February 1945.
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LCI(L)s (Landing Craft Infantry Large) about to disembark troops of 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade onto Nan White beach, Juno area, at Bernieres-sur-Mer, late morning, 6 June 1944.
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This image from "the Blitz" is not from London, or Coventry or Swansea...but actually from just across the water in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Belfast was an important centre for shipbuilding and arms production...thus it was on the Luftwaffe's target list.
The city was bombed four times betwen April - May, 1941 causing the loss of many lives and extensive damage to property.
Here, rescue workers sift through the rubble of Eglington Street off the Shankill Road, Belfast on 7th May 1941.
Some help was sent from the neutral Irish Republic, south of the border, and also rescue teams were sent across from the British "mainland".

 

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WWII. Victoria, Australia. An Army engineering recovery vehicle based on the M3 Lee/Grant hull and running gear. [AWM P05457.026]

 

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Hawker Hurricane pilots during the North African campaign.

 

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September 6, 1944 World War II: The city of Ypres in Belgium was liberated by allied forces. As it was a difficult name to pronounce in English, British troops nicknamed the city 'Wipers'.

 

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Crews of no. 106 Squadron photographed in front of an Avro Lancaster after a successful raid over Genoa, 23 October 1942.

 

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Spitfire Mk I, March 1940.

 

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Wait for me daddy
Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran away from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard, while members of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) marched down Eighth Street at the Columbia Street intersection, New Westminster, British Columbia.
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Crews of no. 106 Squadron photographed in front of an Avro Lancaster after a successful raid over Genoa, 23 October 1942.

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A very early Lancaster, actually converted from a manchester - the small windows in the fuselage.

 

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June 1944: Monitor HMS Roberts seen in action off Normandy with a Hawkins class cruiser in the background

 

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HMS Kent (right) and HMS Punjabi (left) during refueling operations at sea, Oct 22, 1941

 

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Royal Navy Motor Launches (ML) in South Africa - April 1943
Seen is ML380, ML381, & ML382 which were Royal Navy Motor Launches of the Fairmile B class built by Louw & Halvorsen in Cape Town, South Africa, all three commissioned in 1942
LIFE Magazine Archives - Hart Preston Photographer

 

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1944, Rimini area, Italy.
Received pigeon airmail.
Original colour photo.

 

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WWII. 1944/45. A Bristol Beaufighter TF Mk X multi-role aircraft of No. 455 Squadron RAAF fires a salvo of eight x RP-3 60 kg rockets over the North Sea. [IWM MH 5117]

 

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Battlecruiser HMS Renown off of Bangor, Northern Ireland - 1930
IWM - Belfast Telegraph Photographer

 

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It was dangerous work...but someone had to do it.
Sikhs of the 4th Indian Infantry Division ( Red Eagle Division) move forward, five abreast, using their bayonets as mine probes.
This was the standard technique used when there were no magnetic mine-detectors available.
(LIFE / Elisofon 05-43)
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This photo, taken on May 19, 1944, in England, shows Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) talking to a British paratrooper of the 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division. 18 days after this picture was taken, this young man jumped over Normandy, landed behind enemy lines, and gave everything he had....for everything we have.