Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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A Home Guard detachment manning a Bofors gun, 16 November 1943.

 

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Troops of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division land at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernieres-sur-Mer on D-Day.

 

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Gun camera still taken from a Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark X of No. 455 Squadron RAAF, just after the pilot fires all 8 of his RP-3 rockets at a German minesweeper during a joint attack by the Langham and North Coates Strike Wings on shipping lying at anchor off Marsdiep, Holland, 25/09/1944.

 

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A De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of 'A' Flight, No. 143 Squadron RAF, firing on two moored merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire, during an attack by the Banff Strike Wing on concentrations of enemy shipping in Sandefjord, Norway. Two merchant vessels were sunk, and a tanker and three merchantmen damaged, for the loss of two Mosquitos out of 39 aircraft employed on the strike, 2 April 1945

 

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Comet tanks from 11 Armoured Division, March 1945

 

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Men from 2 Sherwood Foresters in Roches, France. 1940

 

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April 1945, Weser River area, Germany. An A34 Cruiser "Comet" tank (11 Armoured Division)

 

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Czechoslovakian orphans from German concentration camps make their way to Short Stirling GT Mark IVs, parked at Prague airport which will fly them to the United Kingdom for rehabilitation. Many of these children were resettled in the Windermere area of the UK.

 

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Commandos demonstrate a technique for crossing barbed wire during training in Scotland, February 1942

 

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6 April 1945. Member of a tank crew and two captured young Germans who were part of a bicycle-mounted tank-hunting unit, equipped with Panzerfausts.

 

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8th Army advancing through the Gabes Gap, Tunisia. 6 April 1943

 

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6 April 1945, Weser River area, Germany. Comet tanks from 23 Hussars (11 Armoured Division) passing a barrier

 

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6 April 1945. Member of a tank crew and two captured young Germans who were part of a bicycle-mounted tank-hunting unit, equipped with Panzerfausts.
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I wanna know where the lads Stg-44 went.....??? Somewhere in the UK.........

 

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Italian Campaign. March 1945, A Churchill ARV recovering a Churchill tank of the North Irish Horse in the Alfonsi area.

 

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Private John Davies, with a Bren light machine-gun, during an attack by the Australian 24th Battalion against the Japanese at the Hatai Junction on Buin Road, Southern Bougainville. 14 April 1945

 

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10th April 1945, Celle area, Germany. Men from 15 "Scottish" Infantry Division and Churchill tanks from 6 Guards Tank Brigade

 

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Short Stirling and Halifax in Belfast, during 'Wings for Victory' savings week, 1943