Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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New Guinea Campaign. Australian commandos from the 2/6th Independent Company push through long kunai grass returning from a reconnaissance patrol in the Finisterre Range.

 

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OTD 1940. A Scammell Pioneer towing a 8-inch howitzer from 1 Heavy Regiment.

 

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OTD in 1940. Meet the Matilda I (not to be confused with Matilda II, a totally different design). 140 were built

 

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OTD in 1942, North Africa. South African sappers making German Teller mines safe

 

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OTD in 1944, Halifax III "Friday the Thirteenth" was delivered to 158 Squadron. It completed 128 sorties and survived WW2

 

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OTD in 1943, Tunisia. Private Stephens from 5 Northamptonshire clearly enjoying riding a captured BMW R75 motorcycle

 

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A British sniper in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945. (staged)

 

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18th January 1942. Knocked-out Type 95 Ha-Go tanks at a roadblock across the Muar - Parit Sulong road, near Bakri in Malaya. The tanks were destroyed by two 2-pdr anti-tank guns of 2/4th Australian Anti-Tank Regiment

 

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20th January 1942. Soldiers from 24th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment scale an obstacle during 'toughening up' training in wintry conditions at Wateringbury in Kent.

 

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OTD in 1944, Italy. After the fight. A British soldier and a young German prisoner sitting quite relaxed on the bonnet of a jeep

 

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OTD in 1943, Milfield airfield. Ground crew refuelling a Hurricane IID from 1 Specialised Low Attack Instructors School

 

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OTD in 1945, Heinsberg area, Germany. Men from 7 Cameronians supported by tanks from 8 Armoured Brigade

 

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OTD in 1945, Ramree Island area, Burma. The forgotten war In the Far East

 

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OTD in 1943, Westhampnett airfield. Flight Lieutenant J. Pattison from 485 Squadron RNZAF, graphically recounting combat to his squadron leader "Reg" Grant.

 

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20th January 1942, Relieving the snow covered gangway sentry during naval exercises on a Royal Navy destroyer.

 

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HMS Emperor, a Ruler-class escort carrier (Bogue-class) Planes lashed to the flight deck in heavy Atlantic seas, Jan-Apr 1944. Waves repeatedly crashed over her flight deck, 60 ft above the waterline

 

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OTD in 1945, Italy. Men from 2/7 Queen's manning a dugout constructed beneath a farm wagon

 

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Australian soldiers in combat during the Battle of Buna-Gona, New Guinea, late 1942- early 1943.

 

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January 1942. A seven man crew from No 149 Squadron, Royal Air Force under the nose of Short Stirling W7455/`OJ-B' at Mildenhall, Suffolk, while the aircraft is being bombed-up.

 

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