Men of the Leicestershire Regiment man a Bren gun near Tobruk, 10 November 1941

North Africa

Patricia Burke, stage, screen and radio star, accompanied by a flight lieutenant playing a ukelele, entertains pilots of an RAF Squadron while sitting on the wing of a Republic Thunderbolt I at an airfield in Central Burma. Patricia and her mother, the singer and actress Marie Burke, visited a number of airfields and hospitals in the forward area during their tour of the Far East.
.

Patricia Burke entertains the RAF

Men of the 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army, with Achilles tank destroyers in support, advancing along the road to Ferrara, Northern Italy, April 1945. The 17 pounder, Self-Propelled, Achilles was a British variant of the American M10 tank destroyer armed with the British Ordnance QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun in place of the standard 3" (76.2 mm) Gun M7. Victor Sierra