Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Tank crewmen of the 2nd Armoured Brigade, reading books they have just received from the library truck in North Africa - October 18, 1942

 

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SAS jeep in the Gabes-Tozeur area of Tunisia, January 5th, 1943.

 

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RAF Spitfires in formation in 1942.

 

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Churchill tanks of the 4th Grenadier Guards advance on Venray / Venraij Netherlands - October 17, 1944

 

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Dover area. A Matilda tank from 49 Royal Tank Regiment advancing through a smoke screen during an exercise. 23 Oct 1941

 

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Operation Alan, the liberation of Hertogenbosch. Netherlands. 23 Oct 1944

 

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M7 Priest 105mm self-propelled guns of the 78th Division in Italy - October 25, 1944

 

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M3 half-track of the 11th Armoured Division stuck in the mud in the Netherlands - October 19, 1944

 

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Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (known as the Ox and Bucks) part of the 71st Brigade of 53rd (Welsh) Division, take cover in a ditch after coming under small arms fire on the road to Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands - October 23, 1944

 

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A soldier examines a German 88mm gun believed to have been knocked out by the RAF in the Western Desert, 10 September 1942.

 

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Sniper Francis Miller of the 5th, East Yorks, with his Enfield No. 4 Mk. I (T) sniper rifle - October 21, 1944. Miller hails from Leeds, volunteered as a sniper in his Battalion, and has 17 confirmed, in civilian life he was a scaffolder.

 

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April 1941. A group of Australian soldiers take their meal as they await the order to evacuate Nafplion, Greece.

 

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Kangaroo armoured personnel carriers carrying soldiers of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders in Moergestel Netherlands - October 26, 1944

 

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Challenger tank crosses a Bailey Bridge in Esch, Netherlands - October 27, 1944

 

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Able Seaman W Connor loads a 12 pounder 12 hundredweight anti-aircraft gun on board British V-class destroyer HMS Vanoc while at action stations during a convoy escort mission in July, 1941.

 

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A Guardsman of 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 7th Guards Brigade, 3rd Division rides a Norton Model 18 motorcycle fitted with a special mount to accommodate a Thompson sub machine gun, allowing the rider to fire while in motion. Swanage, Dorset, UK. 9 April 1941

 

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Convoy of vehicles of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division on the Beveland Causeway, Walcheren Island, Netherlands

 

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A Tallboy being loaded into a Lancaster. Lancasters were capable of carrying them, but their bomb-bays had to be modified for them to fit.

 

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Sherman V (M4A4) and M3A3 Stuart reconnaissance vehicle of the 2nd Lothian and Border Horse, British 6th Armoured Division, near Rufina Italy - September 12, 1944

 

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Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 452 Squadron RAAF seen from the escorting Lockheed aircraft of No. 37 Squadron RAAF shortly after leaving Sattler airfield near Darwin en route to Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, the first stop on the move of the squadron from Sattler to Morotai Island. December 1944.