Fairey Swordfish Mk I torpedo bombers of the Fleet Air Arm on a training flight from Crail in Scotland, 1940.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) move a torpedo for loading into a submarine at Portsmouth, 29 September 1943.
Follow-up waves of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade disembarking with bicycles from landing craft onto 'Nan White' sector of Juno Beach at Bernieres-sur-Mer, 6 June 1944.
A London family from Peckham evacuated to Bideford in North Devon during the Second World War.
American volunteer pilots of No.121 (Eagle) Squadron run to their aircraft at RAF Rochford in Essex, August 1942.
Men of the 51st Highland Division charging with fixed bayonets during a training exercise in the desert, North Africa, 23 September 1942.
A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941.
Cecil Beaton photograph of an RAF bomber crew being debriefed by the squadron intelligence officer on their return from a night raid over Germany, 1941.
Nighttime view of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London in 1940.
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.
A ground crewman helps a pilot of No. 601 Squadron RAF into the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX at Venafro, Italy, 12 May 1944.
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC of No. 166 Wing in flight from Chittagong in India, May 1943.
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.
Members of the O'Rourke family sleeping in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London during November 1940.
A group of evacuees from Bristol arrive at Brent railway station near Kingsbridge in Devon during 1940.
Londoners sleeping in the passageway of a London Underground station, probably Aldwych, in November 1940.
Douglas Dakota Mk III of No. 267 Squadron RAF based at Bari in Italy, 27 December 1944.
Flight Sergeant Georges Nadon, a French-Canadian pilot with No. 122 Squadron, in his Spitfire at Hornchurch, May 1942.
Squadron Leader Donald 'Don' Finlay, the CO of No. 41 Squadron RAF with his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IIA at Hornchurch, Essex, January 1941.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Is of No. 19 Squadron RAF at Fowlmere near Duxford, 1940.
A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1943.
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.
Vickers Wellington Mk Is of No. 9 Squadron in flight, 1939.
War Correspondent Alan Wood is seen typing his despatch, while Airborne troops in the background consult a map during Operation 'Market Garden', Holland, 18 September 1944.