Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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OTD in 1944, Italy. "These tanks are within range of enemy guns. To protect the tracks and suspension, the tanks have been dug in and sandbagged. Trooper Trowhill of London, Ontario, does a spot of washing beside his sandbagged tank."

 

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Sergeant Dick Lewis, from New Zealand, after 2 months service in the desert with the LRDG, July 1942,

 

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February 1945. Bristol Beaufighters of No. 404 Squadron RCAF

 

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British aviators learn basic flight formation 1940.

 

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Dispatch rider Pte McDowell of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, near Regalbuto Italy, 4 August 1943

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Meet Roberts C Dunstan. Aged 17 in 1940 he joined the AIF, wounded outside Tobruk he lost a leg and was discharged in 1941. Feeling he'd not done his bit later in 1941 he re enlisted in the RAAF and completed a tour of 30 ops as a rear gunner with 460 Squadron Binbrook.

 

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OTD in 1940, Greece. A camouflaged anti-aircraft gun site

 

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OTD in 1944, the last obstacle in operation Nutcracker, Blerick (Holland), is captured by 15 "Scottish" Infantry Division

 

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OTD in 1941, Tobruk area. North Africa. Extraordinary. New Zealanders taking prisoner the German crew from a captured British Matilda tank.

 

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Army personnel inspect damage to a Churchill tank that was used as a test target for a 17 pounder gun in November 1943

 

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Quadruple Lewis gun on an anti-aircraft mounting, 18 August 1941

 

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OTD in 1942. Montgomery, commanding 8th Army, inspecting gun position at Benghazi Harbour

 

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Saskatoon Light Infantry (M.G.) soldiers with a Vickers machine gun near Ortona, Italy, 7 January 1944

A Universal Carrier with a Vickers machine gun, Saskatoon Light Infantry, Italy, 8 March 1944

 

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A tank recovery unit works to extricate a Sherman from a ditch, 6 August 1944.

 

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A Royal Marine of 44 Commando sheathes his Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife to his leg in preparation for an impending coastal raid on Japanese forces during the Burma Campaign, 1944,

 

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Multiple penetrations in the side of a Sherman tank of the 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry knocked out on May 18th 1944 with the loss of three crew members in Aquino Italy

 

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Libya. Troops of the Australian 9th Division guard Italians and some of the first German prisoners to be taken during the war in North Africa, after Rommel's first unsuccessful assault on Tobruk in April 1941

 

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Two Handley Page Halifaxes from 35 Squadron RAF above the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, obscured by smoke screens. Brest, France 1941

 

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A lone Canadian gunner of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment Anti-Tank Battery fires a 6-pounder gun at positions held by the German 1st Fallschirmjäger Division, Ortona, Italy, 21 December 1943

 

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Christmas Eve, Bougainville, 1944, troops of the Australian 9th Infantry Battalion receive their Aussie comfort funds Christmas hampers at Battalion HQ. No doubt, gratefully received after the previous months campaign where the 9th were involved in heavy fighting