One of the specially modified Avro Lancasters used by No. 617 Squadron on the raid against the Ruhr dams, 16/17 May 1943.
A reconnaissance photograph of the heavily-bombed German V-1 flying-bomb assembly and launch complex at Siracourt in France, prior to the final attack on the site by 17 Avro Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron on the afternoon of 25 June 1944.
A pilot of No. 175 Squadron RAF scrambles to his waiting Hawker Typhoon Mk IB fighter-bomber at Le Fresne-Camilly in Normandy, 24 July 1944.
A Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB of No. 134 Squadron RAF taxies out past Russian sentries at Vaenga, near Murmansk, October 1941.
A party of riggers working on the tailplane of a Supermarine Spitfire of No. 601 Squadron at Lentini West, Sicily, 7 September 1943.
Squadron Leader L C Wade, commanding No. 145 Squadron, sitting in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk VIII at Triolo landing ground, south of San Severo in Italy, 12 November 1943.
Wing Commander Frank Carey, Officer Commanding the Air Firing Training Unit, based at Amarda Road, India, standing by the nose of a Hawker Hurricane, April 1943.
A crewman on board an RAF Coastal Command Lockheed Hudson of No. 269 Squadron, using an F.24 camera during an ice patrol from Kaldadarnes in Iceland, 5 May 1942.
Men of an RAF Repair and Salvage Unit working on a damaged Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX of No 403 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, at a forward airstrip in Normandy, 19 June 1944.
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE of No. 412 Squadron RCAF, armed with a 250-lb GP bomb under each wing, taxies out for a sortie at Volkel, Holland, 27 October 1944.
A Supermarine Spitfire flying alongside a V-1 flying bomb in an attempt to disrupt the airflow over its wing and force it to crash, August 1944.
Kite balloons of No. 1 Balloon Training Unit at Cardington, October 1940.
Ground staff at an RAF bomber station in Britain celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945.
Spitfire LF Mk Vs of No. 244 Wing flying over the Tunisian coast after escorting light bombers on a sortie to Mareth, 23 March 1943.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXs of No. 241 Squadron RAF return to their base at Madna, south-east of Campomarino, Italy, after a weather reconnaissance sortie over the Anzio beachhead, 29 January 1944.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIVe RB140 in March 1944. This aircraft served operationally with Nos. 616 and 610 Squadrons, but was destroyed in a landing accident at Lympne on 30 October 1944.
A Sea Harrier on the temporary airstrip constructed at San Carlos on the Falkland Islands, named HMS SHEATHBILL, June 1982.
SE.5 aircraft of No.32 Squadron at Humieres airfield near St Pol, 6 April 1918.
Paratroopers of 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, jumping from an American C-130 Hercules in Kuwait, during training for operations in Iraq, 16 March 2003.
A Wasp helicopter from the Ice Patrol Ship HMS ENDURANCE touches down on pack ice during a survey operation in the Antarctic, 1980.
Staff Sergeant-Major Twist of the ATS embraces and kisses her husband, Lance-Bombardier Twist during a special photo-shoot at Army Headquarters in Northern Ireland, 22 October 1941.
A member of the Women's Royal Air Force at a plotting board at an RAF station, circa 1960.
Four 'stick' commanders of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division, synchronising their watches in front of an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle at about 11 pm on 5 June 1944, just prior to take off from RAF Harwell in Oxfordshire.
Allied anti-aircraft fire over Algiers during a night raid, 23 November 1942.
