Historical Period

Basutos Cleaning a Mobile 3.7 HAA Gun

Avro Lancaster Mk I of No.44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, 14 April 1942, while practising for the daylight, low-level attack on the M.A.N. diesel engineering works at Augsburg which took place three days later on 17 April.

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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.

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Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) women at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site at Wormwood Scrubs in London, 22 October 1941.

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Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) girls at the Royal Artillery Experimental Unit at Shoeburyness in Essex, recovering shells from the mud flats at low tide, 1943.

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Auxiliary Fireman Norman Hepple switches on the water to the hose from a trailer pump, somewhere in London during 1940.

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Aufhalten! [Stop him!]

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ATS at the Wheel

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Armourers 'bombing up' a Sea Harrier on board HMS INVINCIBLE during the Falklands War, 1982.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife descend the steps of the City Hall, Sarajevo to their motor car, a few moments before their assassination.

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An RAF Tornado GR.1 in flight during the Gulf War, 1991.

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An RAF sergeant shares an alfresco lunch with two Dutch women at Nieuland, near Middelburg, soon after the town had been liberated by Allied forces, November 1944.

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An officer of the 444th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises a kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras, 19 July 1918.

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An Inspector and Sergeant of the Women's Police Service during the First World War.

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An Indian infantry section of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment about to go on patrol on the Arakan front in Burma, 1944.

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An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 49 Squadron RAF is guided to its dispersal point at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid on Berlin, 22 November 1943.

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An Australian infantryman gives a drink to a wounded Turkish soldier during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

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An ambulance driver of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) assists with the maintenance of her vehicle at St Omer, 28 February 1917.

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An airman stands guard in the snow at Betheniville, framed by the camouflage netting on the wing of a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of No. 139 Squadron RAF.

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