The British light cruiser HMS Cleopatra; 33, sets up a smokescreen to cover a convoy in the Mediterranean, en route from Alexandria to Malta. The light cruiser HMS Euryalus; 42 is deploying its 5.25-inch artillery mounts (5.25 ″ QF Mark I) towards the Italian ships; March 22, 1942.

Protecting the convoy

British light reconnaissance armored car "Humber" Mk.III next to a German 8.8 cm FlaK 18 anti-aircraft gun, near Cologne.
Cologne Cathedral is visible in the center background. The photograph was taken on the eastern side of the Rhine river, which the Allied Forces entered in April 1945.



British Humber and a German "88"

British commandos help a wounded comrade board a landing craft during a raid in Vågsøy.

The raid of special units of the British armed forces on the Norwegian islands of Vågsøy captured by Germany is also known as Operation Archery.  The main goal of the operation was to destroy the production of fish oil, which the Germans used to make explosives. The secondary goal was to force the Germans to hold and increase forces in Norway that could be transferred to the Eastern Front; December 27, 1941.

