Winston Churchill inspects the 1st American Squadron of the Home Guard on Horse Guards Parade, London, 9 January 1941.
A soldier from 101st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment prepares for D-Day by reading his French handbook at a camp near Portsmouth, 29 May 1944.
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.
South African troops of 1991 Swaziland Smoke Company wait to board landing craft at Castellammare before sailing for Anzio, January 1944. The unit was responsible for creating smokescreens over the invasion area.
Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall in London as they celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945.
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site at Wormwood Scrubs in London, 22 October 1941.
Churchill inspects Polish troops at St Andrews in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Clementine and General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile and commander of Polish forces, 23 October 1940.
Winston Churchill reads a newspaper on the platform at St Andrews railway station, during a tour of defences and naval forces in Scotland, 23 October 1940.
Cecil Beaton photograph of a British soldier drinking tea next to a Red Cross mobile tea wagon at Calcutta airport in 1944.
Winston Churchill with his scientific advisor Lord Cherwell (extreme left), Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, watching a display of anti-aircraft gunnery, June 1941.
Winston Churchill gives the "V" sign in reply to cheering troops as he leaves the liner QUEEN MARY with his wife Clementine on his return from Canada, September 1943.
Allied anti-aircraft fire over Algiers during a night raid, 23 November 1942.
Winston Churchill raises his hat on the end of his walking stick to acknowledge a cheering crowd while travelling along a Bristol road during a visit to the city on 12 April 1941.
Avro Lancaster B Mk I (Special) of No. 617 Squadron, loaded with a 'Grand Slam' 22,000-lb deep-penetration bomb, running up its engines at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, 1944.
Winston Churchill shows off his famous 'siren suit' to General Dwight D Eisenhower, during a tour of Allied invasion forces in Kent, 12 May 1944.
Winston Churchill at a BBC microphone about to broadcast to the nation on the afternoon of VE Day, 8 May 1945.
A bomb-damaged house in Gosport after a German air raid on 12 August 1940.
Winston Churchill receives an honorary degree from Harvard University in Massachusetts, USA, 6 October 1943.
Winston Churchill inspects the new Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 rifle during a visit to 53rd Division in Kent, 20 November 1942.
A Union Flag hangs defiantly from a building in the aftermath of the air raid which devastated the centre of Coventry on the night of 14/15 November 1940.
A practice 'Upkeep' weapon attached to the bomb bay of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron at Manston, while conducting dropping trials for the Dams Raid off Reculver, May 1943.
Winston Churchill stands on a Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, to take the salute at an inspection of 9th Armoured Division near Newmarket, Suffolk, 16 May 1942.
General Charles de Gaulle with Czechoslovak President-in-exile Dr Benes in Algiers, 3 January 1945.
The Big Three': Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin sit for photographs during the Yalta Conference in February 1945.
