Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Australian Army engineers with a captured Daihatsu-class landing craft, Milne Bay, PNG Sep 1942.

 

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Pilots from 609 Sqn RAF at Manston in March 1944. Of the 19 in the photograph, eight wouldn’t survive to see August 1944

 

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19 August 1942. The failed raid of Dieppe (operation Jubilee). Exhausted commandos, arriving in Newhaven

 

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Pilot Officer L. J. Montgomery (NZ) with his Spitfire in the Volturno Valley area, Italy. 30 April 1944

 

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Lancaster B Mark I's of No. 50 Squadron, 26 August 1943

 

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31 Aug 1944, France. A despatch rider greeting Madame Scarlett, the wife of a Briton who ran the Hotel des Fleurs in the village of Les Andelys.

 

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French civilians watching a Cromwell tank and other vehicles from 2 Welsh Guards during the advance of Guards Armoured Division. 31 Aug 1944

 

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German soldier inspecting Cruiser Tank Mk IVA T.15252 "Elephant" of 12 Troop C Squadron 5th Royal Tank Regiment knocked out in North Africa in early 1941

 

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British Army DUKW carrying a 6-pounder anti-tank gun during training in North Africa, 31 August 1943.

 

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The damaged tail section of a Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series I of 51 Squadron RAF following its collision with an Avro Lancaster while returning from a raid on Munchen-Gladbach on the night of 29/30 August 1943

 

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A BBC journalist interviewing Squadron Leader E H Dunkley of 464 Squadron RAAF following a successful raid on Gestapo Headquarters, 'Shellhaus', Copenhagen, on 21 March 1945, by the Squadron's Mosquito aircraft.

 

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Captured Italian Armato M11/39 tank being used by the Australian 6th Division Cavalry Regiment during the capture of Tobruk. Date 23 January 1941

 

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Balikpapan. 26 July 1945. A DUKW transports members of a patrol from Australian C Troop, 2/3 Commando Squadron, 2/7 Cavalry Commando Regiment, across a bay to inspect local villages

 

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Duplex tanks of B Wing, 79th Armoured Division School driving on to LCT 782 at Stokes Bay, Gosport during exercises.

 

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Vickers Wellington Mk IIIs of No. 30 Operational Training Unit at RAF Hixon, Staffordshire, 6 September 1943

 

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7 September 1940. The Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.

 

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"Fly-walking" up the walls. Sept 1942, Birmingham

 

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Light Tank Mk VIB knocked out in France in 1940

 

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An RAF Morris LRC (light reconnaissance car) alongside a bullock cart on an airfield in the Azores, January 1944. Original colour photo.

 

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New Guinea Campaign. October 1942. Australian troops of the 2/31st Battalion, 7th Division, heat up a meal on the Kokoda Track near Menari.