Armed Forces & Weapons

Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery loading 18-pounder shells into limbers. Acheux, Somme, July 1916.

Gunner of the Royal Marine Artillery posing with shell near Acheux, Somme, July 1916.

Guardsmen of 3rd Irish Guards in a Loyd carrier, wrapped up against the clouds of dust, during Operation 'Goodwood', Normandy, 18 July 1944.

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Groundcrew installing a Type F.24 camera into a Westland Lysander Mk II of No. 225 Squadron at RAF Tilshead, Wiltshire, September 1940.

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Ground staff at an RAF bomber station in Britain celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945.

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Grant tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment on the move in the Western Desert, 17 February 1942.

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German prisoners being marched through the Cathedral Square, Ypres, 20th September 1917.

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German Dornier Do 17 bombers over London, 7 September 1940.

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General Sir Bernard Montgomery shows Winston Churchill the battle situation on a map held by the Commander of the 2nd Canadian Division, General G G Symonds, during the Prime Minister's visit to Normandy, 22 July 1944.

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General Montgomery with Generals Patton (left) and Bradley (centre) at 21st Army Group HQ, Normandy, 7 July 1944.

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Gee! I Wish I Were a Man

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French and British soldiers playing cards together at Bernagousse, 16 March 1918.

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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.

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Flying Officer Leonard 'Ace' Haines of No. 19 Squadron on his Supermarine Spitfire Mk I at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940.

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Flight Sergeant Georges Nadon, a French-Canadian pilot with No. 122 Squadron, in his Spitfire at Hornchurch, May 1942.

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Flight Lieutenant W H Pentland, of No 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force

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Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943.

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Flight Lieutenant J Pattison of No. 485 Squadron RNZAF graphically recounts a combat to Squadron Leader 'Reg' Grant (left), and Flight Lieutenant R Baker (right), in front of a Spitfire at Westhampnett, 21 January 1943.

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Flight Lieutenant C L F "Jimmy" Talalla of No. 122 Squadron RAF, standing in front of his North American Mustang Mark III at B12/ Ellon, Normandy.

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Flight Lieutenant A R Costello of No. 112 Squadron standing by his Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk I at Sidi Heneish, Egypt, April 1942.

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Fairey Swordfish Mk I torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm on a training flight from Crail in Scotland, 1940.

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Experimental camouflage on the fuselage of a Sopwith camel, developed during the First World War to disguise the aircraft's direction of flight.

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Ernest Brooks: Men of the Wiltshire Regiment waving their helmets as they march along the Acheux road to the trenches.

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Douglas Dakota Mk III of No. 267 Squadron RAF based at Bari in Italy, 27 December 1944.

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