British MK.III Crusader tank in El Alamein, North Africa.

In North Africa

This Seafire made a spectacular landing on HMS Implacable. The arresting nets have failed, a wheel has separated from the fuselage, and the plane is going into a half somersault.

Failed landing

Indian infantry advance through a shattered Italian town.  Indian forces made a substantial contribution to the British war effort in both World Wars.  Perhaps remembering the contribution made (at least traditionally) of the affair of the greased cartridges to launching the Indian Mutiny, the British exercised the maximum possible sensitivity to Indian cultural preferences and imperatives in both wars.  Indian-style food was provided where possible (the Indians did not always agree).  Another example is seen in this photo, in which Sikh soldiers wear the turban.  This  had first arisen as an issue in WW1, when Sikh soldiers flatly refused to shed their turbans for helmets.  They were allowed to keep their turbans.  Best regards, JR.