Gladiator K7903 of 80 Sqn adopting the vertical parking position at Helwan in 1939.
taken from fb/Aviation History Research centre

Landing mishap

A scout car from the Household Cavalry of the Guards Armored Division. The first British vehicle to arrive in Eindhoven, Holland, on their desperate push to relieve the British troops in Arnhem.

British are coming

4 inch Mk IX coast defense gun and crew; 1940.
Their role was to defeat enemy ships attacking the ships in a port, including warships, alongside or at anchor in the port. However, where guns covered narrows, such as the Dover Straits, the Straits of Gibraltar,  they also had a wider role of engaging enemy ships passing through the straits. Normally deployed in batteries of two or three guns, a few major ports had several batteries positioned miles apart.
