A jeep and other vehicles and troops passing through La Breche as they move inland from Sword Beach, Normandy,  June 6, 1944.

From Sword Beach

The Livens Projector was a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with flammable or toxic chemicals. In the First World War, the Livens Projector became the standard means of delivering gas attacks and it remained in the arsenal of the British Army until the early years of the Second World War.


Livens Projector

This Fiat CR.42, with wheel fairings removed, is one of the Italian aircraft captured by the British Forces during and after their advance in Cyrenaica, Operation Crusader, end 1941. In particular this aircraft, in the photo already in British markings, was captured intact and flown by No.238 Squadron, a Royal Air Force fighter Squadron at this time equipped with Hurricanes, when was based at El Gubbi, near Tobruk, between 19th January and 5th February 1942. Further fate of this plane unknown. Victor Sierra