Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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An Avro Lancaster is silhouetted against flares, smoke and flak during night fall over Hamburg, Germany, on the 30th of January 1943

 

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Crusader tank and its crew of 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars in North Africa, c.1941-42.

 

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OTD in 1943, Acireale, Sicily. Men from 9 Durham Light Infantry taking cover.

British infantrymen scramble over rubble on a street in Catania, Sicily, on August 5, 1943.

 

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10th August 1941: The Atlantic Conference: Winston Churchill on the deck of the HMS Prince of Wales watching the USS McDougal transport Franklin Roosevelt back to the USS Augusta.

 

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Personnel of the South Saskatchewan Regiment in captured German 'Schwimmwagen' amphibious car, Rocquancourt, France, 11 August 1944. Credit: Ken Bell.

 

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11th August 1942. Fleet Carrier HMS Eagle was torpedoed by U-73, 65 Miles south of Majorca. During 1942 Eagle had transported 183 Spitfires to Malta. She sank in only 8 minutes with 928 of her 1,160 crew being rescued by her escorts.

 

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A QF 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun of 127th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment in the town of Southwold, England, on October 9, 1944.

 

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Ram Kangaroo personnel carriers passing through Hopsten, 8 April 1945.

 

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MEMBERS OF THE 39TH BATTALION, AMF, PARADE AFTER WEEKS OF FIGHTING IN DENSE JUNGLE DURING THE KOKODA CAMPAIGN. THE OFFICER IN FRONT IS LIEUTENANT JOHNSON. THE MEN STANDING BEHIND HIM, FROM THE LEFT, ARE: ARNIE WALLACE, BILL SANDERS, HARRY HODGE, KEVIN SURTEES, GEORGE CUDMORE, GEORGE PUXLEY, KEVIN WHELAN, LEN MURRELL, DICK SECKER, NEIL GRAHAM, CLIVE GALE AND JACK BOLAND. THEIR BEDRAGGLED DRESS REFLECTS THE HARD FIGHTING OF PAST WEEKS. Sept 1942

Known as "choco's" (chocolate soldiers that melt in the sun) sent to New Guinea with only a few weeks training. They fought their hearts out and earnt the respect of the veterans of the western desert that replaced them

 

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MEMBERS OF THE 39TH BATTALION, AMF, PARADE AFTER WEEKS OF FIGHTING IN DENSE JUNGLE DURING THE KOKODA CAMPAIGN. THE OFFICER IN FRONT IS LIEUTENANT JOHNSON. THE MEN STANDING BEHIND HIM, FROM THE LEFT, ARE: ARNIE WALLACE, BILL SANDERS, HARRY HODGE, KEVIN SURTEES, GEORGE CUDMORE, GEORGE PUXLEY, KEVIN WHELAN, LEN MURRELL, DICK SECKER, NEIL GRAHAM, CLIVE GALE AND JACK BOLAND. THEIR BEDRAGGLED DRESS REFLECTS THE HARD FIGHTING OF PAST WEEKS. Sept 1942
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Known as "choco's" (chocolate soldiers that melt in the sun) sent to New Guinea with only a few weeks training. They fought their hearts out and earnt the respect of the veterans of the western desert that replaced them

The Kokoda Track Campaign: July - November 1942
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Sergeant H.E. Cooper, 48th Highlanders of Canada, Sicily, 11 August 1943. Credit: Jack H. Smith.

 

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15 June 1942. Scots Guards

 

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OTD in 1944, Flers area, France. Liberation and destruction.

Cromwell & Challenger in the first couple of photos from the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured division.

 

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Falaise. A Medical Orderly Looks Over A Canadian Soldier Who Has Fallen But Is Uninjured. 8 Aug 1944

 

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An Italian woman inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd in the Colosseum of Rome, 6 June 1944.

 

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Duplex Drive “Donald Duck” Sherman tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry during the winter of 1944-45, around the Meuse River, Belgium

 

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British mine flailing tanks landing from a barge on an one of the island’s guarding the Sheldt Estuary along the waterway leading to port of Antwerp. The British and Canadians cleared the Sheldt from 2-Oct from 8-Nov-1944, and the port of Antwerp was finally opened to Allied Shipping on 28-Nov-28.

 

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Aerial view from the north-west of the damage resulting from a V2 rocket missile which exploded in Mackenzie Road, Islington, London N7, England on the evening of 26 December 1944. Clearance work is still in progress on the site at which sixty-eight people were killed, eighty-six severely injured and one hundred and eighty-two slightly injured. 20 buildings were completely wrecked, including the 'Prince of Wales' public house where many of the casualties occurred.

 

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Syrian-Lebanese Campaign, July 1941: Australian troops amid the ruins of an old Crusader castle in Sidon, Lebanon.

 

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Today in 1944, the destroyers HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Chaudiere & HMCS Kootenay, of Escort Group 11, hunt and sink U-621 near La Rochelle in the Bay of Biscay. Photo is from Kootenay, firing her Hedgehog charges during the action. Ottawa is in the background. Credit: Richard Arless.