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German soldiers who were captured in Normandy disembarking from an LST at Southampton, England during June 1944.


Stepping on British soil as POWs

The Valentine Tank, Infantry, Mk III, was an infantry tank produced in the United Kingdom during World War II. More than 8,000 were produced.
 It was used extensively by the British in the North African campaign.  It proved to be both strong and reliable.

British Valentine tanks in Tunisia

312 Czechoslovak Squadron RAF Redhill 19th August 1942,Sgt pilot Mira LIŠKUTÍN landed safely at base with Spitfire damaged in combat Clash near Paris with the distance to the Redhill airbase, near London, a safe landing in that state was a miracle.

Miracle Spitfire Sgt pilot Mira LIŠKUTÍN Clash at Paris

British 4.5 inch gun in action near the  commune of  Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvados, south of Bayeux, north-western, France. during the Battle of Normandy; July, 1944.

Battle of Normandy.

Italian Campaign.; ML 3-inch mortar crew of the British Army's 4th Parachute Regiment, 2nd Parachute Brigade in action near the commune of Venafro, between Naples and Rome; April 30-May 1, 1944.

British paratroopers in ground-action

A Universal Carrier crew of the British 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade hands out chocolate to Dutch civilians during the advance of 11th Armoured Division in the Netherlands, 22 September 1944.

Spreading the goodwill...

Soldiers of the British 8th Army in a battle in the commune of San Clemente east of San Marino during the offensive on the Adriatic side of Italy; September, 1944.

Fierce battle with many casualties

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.

British Forces

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