Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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July 1942. A P-51 Mustang I from 2 Squadron RAF

 

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Staghound armoured cars on patrol, 27 July 1944.

 

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Australian soldier using a captured German MG-34 in North Africa - July 25, 1942

 

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1st Armoured Division, 2nd Dragoon Guards Regiment abandoned Mk.IV Cruiser Tank. France, May 1940.

 

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Members of NZ No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron prepare a mine to destroy the airfield they had been building at Tebrau, Malaya before the arrival of Japanese forces. 1942.

 

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British troops examine a destroyed German Sturmpanzer 43 or Sd.Kfz. 166 “Brummbär" assault gun near Ondefontaine Normandy - August 6, 1944

 

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Sherman II (M4A1) DD tank moves along a narrow lane towards Ondefontaine Normandy - August 4, 1944

 

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Sherman III (M4A2) passing through ruins of Cahagne during the advance towards Aunay-sur-Odon Normandy - August 2, 1944

 

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Universal Carriers, motorcycles and other vehicles prepare to cross the Souleuvre River in their advance towards Vire Normandy - August 2, 1944

 

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Sherman III (M4A2) passes a tram in Catania Sicily - August 5, 1943

 

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Cromwell tanks of 7th Armoured Division wait to advance in Normandy - July 30, 1944

 

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New Zealand Army Sergeant Ian Thomas sits down and smokes a pipe with his Lee Enfield during the North African Campaign in Egypt 1942

 

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On 1 August 1944, as Allied infantry and armour advance, a British soldier is ready to engage enemy tanks with his PIAT gun, near St Martin-des-Besaces, Normandy.

 

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Tiger I captured intact by New Zealand Soldiers with the 22nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 2nd NZ Division near Romola, Tuscany Italy - August 2, 1944

 

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Company Sergeant-Major D.D. Perkins of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade writing a letter aboard a Landing Ship Tank (LST) en route to the Normandy beachhead, France, June 1944.

 

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Infantrymen of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles in a Buffalo amphibious vehicle taking part in Operation VERITABLE en route from Niel to Keeken Germany 9 February 1945.

 

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Soldiers of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry resting next to a Sherman tank of 3rd Royal Tank Regiment in Normandy - August 15, 1944

 

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Cromwell tank of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, driving through Vassy, Normandy - August 15, 1944

 

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A knocked-out Churchill III among abandoned Italian M13/40 tanks at El Alamein, 2 November 1942. The Churchill was one of six rushed to the front line and placed under control of 7th Motor Brigade, 1st Armoured Division, in time for Montgomery's offensive at El Alamein. The group was named Kingforce after its commander, Major Norris King MC. 2 Nov 1942

 

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The tank in the foreground is T187796, a 5th Royal Horse Artillery "Observation Post" Cromwell commanded by Captain Roy Dunlop. The tank to the left of the image is T187599 "SHUFTI CUSH" of the 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters). Both tanks were overrun on Point 213 during the Battle of Villers-Bocage. 13 June 1944

Destroyed British tanks on Point 213 after the German arrival, with two Cromwells on the left and a Sherman Firefly on the right