Armed Forces & Weapons

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIV flown by the CO of No. 610 Squadron RAF, Squadron Leader R A Newbury, based at Friston, Sussex, 3 July 1944.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk VBs of No. 81 Squadron RAF, June 1942.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vbs of No. 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, flying in loose formation over the Tunisian desert on a bomber escort operation, April 1943.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB of No. 165 Squadron at Gravesend, Essex, 16 October 1942.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk V and pilots of No. 40 Squadron, South African Air Force, at Gabes in Tunisia, April 1943.

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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.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk Is of No. 501 Squadron RAF based at Colerne, Wiltshire, 23 May 1941.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk Is of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere near Duxford, 1940.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk Is of No. 92 Squadron RAF taking off from Manston, Kent, February 1941.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIa aircraft of the Air Fighting Development Unit based at Duxford, 6 April 1942.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC of No. 73 Operational Training Unit in flight over Egypt, January 1943.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXs of No. 242 Squadron RAF at Calenzana, Corsica, after a patrol over the invasion beaches in southern France, 17 August 1944.

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Stolz Weht die Flagge [Proudly Waves the Flag]

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Still from the British film "The Battle of the Somme". The image is part of a sequence introduced by a caption reading "British Tommies rescuing a comrade under shell fire".

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Still from the British documentary film 'The Battle of the Somme'. The image is part of a sequence purportedly showing British soldiers moving forward through wire at the start of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

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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.

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St George's Day 1918: Bridge of 'HMS Canterbury'. When the Great Naval Raid took place on Zeebrugge and Ostend, 'HMS Canterbury' was on Patrol Work.

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Squadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck (centre) with pilots of No. 257 Squadron RAF under the nose of Tuck's Hawker Hurricane at Martlesham Heath. They are displaying souvenirs of their action against Italian aircraft on 11 November 1940.

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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.

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Squadron Leader H J L Hallowes, CO of No. 122 Squadron, with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk V at Scorton in Yorkshire, December 1941.

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Squadron Leader Douglas Bader with pilots of No. 242 Squadron in front of his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940.

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Squadron Leader Douglas Bader (centre) and fellow pilots of No. 242 Squadron, Flight Lieutenant Eric Ball and Pilot Officer Willie McKnight, admire the nose art on Bader's Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, October 1940.

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Squadron Leader Donald 'Don' Finlay, the CO of No. 41 Squadron RAF with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA at Hornchurch, Essex, January 1941.

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Squadron Leader Dennis Barry (in cockpit) and other pilots of No. 616 Squadron RAF with a Gloster Meteor at Manston, Kent, January 1945.

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