Paratroopers during Operation "Market Garden" September 18, 1944 near the train station of Wolfheze(Netherlands).Lying in the foreground, a paratrooper armed with a PIAT grenade launcher, against the tree, more grenades .Others - armed with a Bren gun and  Lee Enfield rifle.

Market Garden

Lieutenant (later Major, later Member of Parliament) Airey Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, the first officer to make a successful escape from Colditz PoW facility when he reached Switzerland in 1942.  Neave was subsequently recruited to the military intelligence service, where he served for the remainder of the war.  Best regards, JR.

Airey Neave, Colditz escaper.

A petrol tanker and trailer on fire on the road between Homs and Misurata, Libya, after an attack by Bristol Blenheims interdicting Axis fuel supplies in support of Operation Crusader, which was achieved by the British Eighth Army between 18 November-30 December 1941 and which successfully relieved the siege of Tobruk. Victor Sierra