British combat medics treat one of their wounded during the battles for Monte Cassino, Italy; June-May, 1944.

Medics try to save lives

British soldiers of the 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, with a captured Japanese flag at Mount Popa, central Burma; 16th April, 1945.


Captured Japanese flag

Famous image of Avro Lancaster III (ED592), on it's maiden test flight dated 26th August 1942. She was later delivered to No. 50 RAF at Skellingthrorpe, and designated the letters VN-B.

She would be shot down on the 2nd March 1943 on a mission to bomb Berlin, reportedly by night fighter pilot Oblt Horst Pause of the 1./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield.

Badly crippled the Lancaster crash Wadenoyen sw of Tiel, killing all the crew:

Pilot F/O. F.E. Townsend
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Sandow
Navigator Sgt. H. Wood
Nav ba Sgt. W.C. Yetton
Wo ag Sgt. D.G. Hobbs
Air gunner Sgt. P.J. Rose
Air gunner Sgt. W.A. Dawe

Photographer: Charles E. Brown.
Image Credit: Authors Personal Collection (Via RAF Museum).
Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @HowdiColourWorks.
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