A relaxed portrait of a corporal of the Royal Air Force as he stands under the port engine of Consolidated Liberator Mark II, AL511 'A', of No. 108 Squadron RAF at Fayid, Egypt. This aircraft is decorated with 'Dumbo' nose art.
Five year old Andrew and three year old Jacqueline say their prayers before settling down to sleep at the house in which they are staying, somewhere in Surrey.
The Axis Offensive 1941 - 1942: Remains of German tanks form circular patterns in the sand at Sidi Rezegh in Libya.
Two men cutting templates in the mould loft.
Winston Churchill, accompanied by Air Marshal the Hon. Sir Ralph Cochrane, Air Officer Commanding in Chief, Transport Command, walks from his Douglas Skymaster Mark I, EW999, at Northolt, Middlesex.
Two Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks at Pihu Military Training Centre in south eastern China.
The Chinese Police Force; the Assistant Chief of Police and his staff grouped in a circular doorway at headquarters in Chengtu.
Members of the London Fire Brigade train their hoses on burning buildings in Queen Victoria Street, EC4, after the last and heaviest major raid mounted on the capital during the 'Blitz'.
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.
Two gunners in Short Sunderland Mark I, N9027, of No 210 Squadron RAF based at Oban, Argyll, sit at their positions with .303 Vickers K-type machine guns, mounted in the upper fuselage hatches.
RAF armourers load a 250lb bomb into the bomb bay of a Wellington of No 38 Squadron, RAF Shallufa, Egypt, 1942
An airman poses in front of a sandbagged aircraft revetment, RAF Shallufa, Egypt, 1942
Cecil Beaton Photographs: Tyneside Shipyards, 1943
A British sailor on shore leave waits for transport away from the dockside, Harwich, 1941
King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944.
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943.
Winston Churchill inspecting men of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Loreto aerodrome, Italy, 25 August 1944.
The Western Desert 1942: Head and shoulders portrait of a bearded member of the Long Range Desert Group wearing a woolly cap at the wheel of his jeep.
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.
