A cheery party of Sisters of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service with their baggage at No. 88 General Hospital at Douvres-la-Délivrande, Normandy, France.


Military nurses

This is an initial training group photo used as a basis to illustrate the statistics for the fate of aircrew. This is what the raw numbers regarding a man's chances in Bomber Command actually mean, based on the calculations on Rob Davis' Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command 1939-1945 site.
Sir Arthur Harris : “There are no words with which I can do justice to the aircrews who fought under my command. There is no parallel in wartime to such courage and determination in the face of danger over so prolonged a period, of danger which at times was so great that scarcely one an in three could expect to survive.”

Photo used with permission from Mike Wainright / FB

Note:EVD means Evaded

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"Sharpshooters".......the 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry.

The two units had been merged in 1944 due to losses sustained during the Normandy campaign. Both units, prior to the merger, had seen action in North Africa, Italy and Normandy.

Following DDay, Britain was suffering understandable manpower shortages, with her Army now engaged on 3 fronts.

The 4 CLY had suffered heavy losses during the action at Villers-Bocage; in spite of which they had still helped to push back the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion whilst inflicting heavy losses.

The two units were merged and renamed on August 1st, 1944 at Carpiquet in the Calvados region, and saw action in France, Holland, and on into Germany.

Photo: German POWs trudge past tanks of the Sharpshooters near the Elbe crossing in 1945.
taken from fb/Gabi Enahoro