British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects Britain's Grenadier guards standing at attention in front of Light Bren gun armored units in July, 1940. 

Inspection

H.M.S. Adventure was in the Thames Estuary on 13th November 1939 escorted by the destroyers H.M.S. Blanche and H.M.S. Basilisk. There she was damaged by an underwater explosion at  - almost certainly the result of activating a magnetic mine which had been laid by one of four German destroyers Z18, Z19, Z20 and Z21 only hours previously. Blanche escorting the Adventurer also struck a mine and capsized becoming the first RN destroyer loss of ww2

Mine damage (H.M.S. Adventure)

The only crew in Coastal Command to sink two U-boats in one sortie was that of Flying Officer Kenneth Owen Moore, a Canadian serving with No 224 Squadron. 'Kayo' Moore, seen here on the right with his bomb aimer Warrant Officer Johnston 'Jock' McDowell, achieved this dramatic feat on the night of 7/8 June 1944, when flying a 'Cork' patrol over the Western end of the Channel.

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