Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Hurricane Mk I of 257 Squadron RAF take off from Coltishall Norfolk Squadron Leader R R Stanford Tuck in V6864 DT-A

 

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De Havilland Mosquito Photo Reconnaissance variant at Akyab Island airstrip, Burma, 1945

 

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Men of No. 4 Commando after returning from a raid on the French coast near Boulogne, 22 April 1942.

 

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Maintenance crew bring up onto the flight deck of the escort carrier HMS Battler a torpedo-loaded Fairey Swordfish of the Fleet Air Arm 835 Squadron. Circa 1943

 

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HMS Exeter after exchanging compliments with the Graf Spee, 1939. Afterward, the cruiser was in repairs for nearly a year.

 

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Bristol Beaufighter of 252 squadron in Libya, 1943

 

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OTD in 1944, Beuville area, France. Brigadier Duncan from 30 Armoured Brigade watching the advance towards Caen.

 

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OTD in 1944. Men from 1 King's Own Scottish Borderers, some of the first troops entering Caen

 

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Street fighting. OTD in 1944, Caen, France

 

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OTD in 1944. Caen, France. Men from 59 Infantry Division.

 

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OTD in 1944. Second day of Operation Charnwood, to capture Caen.

 

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OTD in 1944. Changing the 15" main guns of HMS Ramillies at Portsmouth

"the ship fired over 1,000 rounds in support of the invasion and was used to break up the concentration of German armour massed around Caen."

 

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10 July 1944 A 6-pounder anti-tank gun of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, part of the 9th Brigade of the British 3rd Division, along with Canadian Sherman tanks in Rue Montoir Poissonnerie near St-Pierre Church, Caen.

 

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A powerless HMS Shark, South-East of Stavanger just before she was sunk by her own crew to prevent her capture by the Germans, Norway, June 1940.

 

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OTD in 1944, Caen area, France. A PIAT mortar team

 

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Corporal Peter Teague, 1st Australian Armoured Regiment, stands beside his Matilda II tank and shows the Japanese Type 95 NCO sword which he captured after shooting a Japanese soldier in a tunnel on "Vasey Highway" during the amphibious landings of Operation OBOE 2 at Balikpapan on Borneo. Closely admiring the sword is Lieutenant John Emmott. In the right foreground is Sapper Clement James 'Tich' Russell, an engineer who was killed by Japanese shells 3 days later in heavy fighting on July 5th.

 

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OTD in 1944, Italy. The crew from a Staghound armoured car from 1 King's Dragoon Guards

 

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Churchill tanks of 4th Grenadier Guards assemble for the advance on Liesel, 1 November 1944.

 

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Churchill tanks of the North Irish Horse laying down indirect fire on German positions, Alfonsini-Mezzano sector, 21 March 1945.

 

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Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade carrying paratroopers from the American 17th Airborne Division pass through Dorsten in Germany, while an Achilles tank destroyer waits, 29 March 1945.