RAF Squadron No 71 pilots run to their Hawker Hurricane planes; Kirton in Lindsey, air base England; 17 March, 1941. These American volunteer  pilots are members of the RAF's first "Eagle" squadron.
 

In RAF service

British troops landing at Arromanches, codenamed Gold Beach, June 16th 1944. Behind them is the Mulberry Harbour that helped to ensure enough supplies made it off the beaches and to the troops at the front.

British troops on French soil

82 yars ago, in 1940, Operation Dynamo began to extricate as many British troops as possible from Dunkirk, France.
The German Forces were about to capture or annihilate the fighting men of the UK there.

They will come back in due time

The British armored Universal Personnel Carriers and M4 Sherman tanks on a street of a Dutch town of Aalst; 18 September, 1944.

British activity in a Dutch town

The British armored personnel Universal Carriers on the move on a rural road in Burma. 
The picture is taken on the road between Imphal  and Kohima; November 29, 1944.

Carriers advancing with troops

British tankers on a Churchill flamethrower tank in France; 1944.

Churchill Crocodile flame-throwing tank

Eighth Army troops moving through a smoke screen past Monastery Hill into Cassino, Italy, 1944.

British troops on the attack

Men of the 1st Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, part of 71st Brigade of 53rd (Welsh) Division, in forward positions on the road to 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Holland taking cover in a ditch; 24 October, 1944.

First to spot the enemy

A pair of British soldiers with a PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank) rocket launcher; Normandy, France, June 1944.

Covering a road junction

An M7 Priest self-propelled gun battery of the 33rd Royal Field Artillery Regiment in a field near the French village of Hermanville-sur-Mer, due north of Caen; June 6, 1944.

Positions on Sword Beach

British machine gunners with a Bren light machine gun. Somewhere on the border of Holland and Germany; September 1944.

 

Top-mounted curved box magazine

3-inch mortar team of the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in action during the advance of 53rd (Welsh) Division towards Laroche in Belgium; 5 January 1945.

Firing mortar rounds

British Morris Commercial C8 Field Artillery Tractors, also known as Quads, tow 57mm 6-pounder anti-tank guns (QF 6 pounder 7 cwt 57mm anti-tank gun) on a road in Tunisia; December 5, 1942.

British Artillery in North Africa

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders Regiment and Churchill tanks of the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade on the street of the captured German city of Kleve; February 1945.  
   Kleve is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine.

Street fight of infantry and armor

British soldiers push a CWT (hundredweight) truck, that got stuck in the coastal sand of a landing beach in Italy;  February 4, 1944.

Manpower instead of horsepower

Signalmen of the British 1st Airborne Division, landed on a field west of Arnhem, Netherlands; September 17, 1944.
   The paratrooper in the center is holding a BC-611 Walkie-Talkie.

Operation Market Garden

Ground crew of No. 320 Squadron RAF and the Royal Dutch Naval Air Service prepare bombs to be loaded into an American-made B-25 (Mitchell Mk.II) bomber at Melsbroek airbase in Belgium; December 31, 1944.

Loading bombs

Allied heavy artillery supports the crossing of the Rhine river in the Wesel area during the predawn hours of March 24, 1945.
   5.5-inch guns fire on the German positions across the river during the bombardment, that preceded the jumping off of units involved.

Operation Plunder

British motorcyclist soldiers cross the Rhine river on a pontoon bridge in the Wesel region; March 27, 1945.

In the course of Operation Plunder

Two soldiers of the 49th British Infantry Division (Durham Light Infantry, 49th West Riding Division) run past a German tank Pz.Kpfw.V "Panther" # 204, which was knocked out in France; June 27, 1944 .

British soldiers and a disabled German tank

A picture taken of the tankers of the 4th squadron A of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade, British 2nd Armored Division of a Cruiser Mk. IV tank in Libya, North Africa; 1941.

A Cruiser tank with crew

British Sexton self-propelled guns driving down the Charlottenburg Chaussee in Berlin during the Four Nations VJ Day parade; 7 September 1945.

Victory over Japan Parade

A British Churchill AVRE (=Armored Vehicle Royal Engineers) accompanies soldiers of the 53rd Welsh Infantry on the way to assault 's-Hertogenbosch (colloquially known as Den Bosch), Netherlands; October, 1944.

Churchill tank in infantry support

British armored vehicles on the road near the eastern-Dutch town of Hengelo. In the photo on the right - a Bren Carrier armored personnel carrier, on the left - a jeep with a trailer, in the background - an M4 Sherman tank; April 3, 1945.

A Jeep, a Tank and a Bren Carrier

The first WAAF nursing orderlies selected to fly on air-ambulance duties to France, standing in front of a Douglas Dakota Mark III of No. 233 Squadron RAF at B2/Bazenville, Normandy. June, 1944. 
From left to right: Leading Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts of Oswestry, Corporal Lydia Alford of Eastleigh and Leading Aircraftwoman Edna Birbeck of Wellingborough.

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