RAF photographers inspect a developed reconnaissance film at a landing ground in Egypt, September 1941.
RAF kite balloons are walked out of No. 1 Airship Shed at Cardington for handling practice by No. 1 Balloon Training Unit, October 1940.
RAF armourers load a 250lb bomb into the bomb bay of a Wellington of No 38 Squadron, RAF Shallufa, Egypt, 1942
Publicity shot purporting to show the captain of a Boeing Fortress Mark II holding a final conference with his crew before take off.
Private W Stack of No. 9 Commando at Anzio, equipped for a patrol with a Browning pistol, 5 March 1944.
Private T Henderson with fixed bayonet, practises assault.
A voluntary domestic science course for service women based in the London area, organised by the London District of the Army Education Scheme.
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill seated on the quarterdeck of HMS PRINCE OF WALES for a Sunday service during the Atlantic Conference, 10 August 1941.
President Harry Truman and Winston Churchill shake hands on the steps of Truman's residence during the Potsdam conference, 16 July 1945.
President Franklin D Roosevelt confers with Winston Churchill at a press conference during the Casablanca Conference, 24 January 1943.
Portrait of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, 1944.
Portrait of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery on his appointment as Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment, 1944.
Portioning out the bread at a roadside dump. Albert, March 1917.
Political Personalities: Three quarter length portrait of Princess Durri Shehvar Berar, only daughter of the former Sultan of Turkey, photographed wearing a jewelled sari in India.
Officers and S.E.5a Scouts of No. 1 Squadron, RAF at Clairmarais aerodrome near Ypres.
Pilots of No. 611 Squadron walk away from a Supermarine Spitfire Mk V at Hornchurch after a daylight sweep over France, 7 July 1941.
Pilots of No. 33 Squadron RAF, at Larissa, Greece
Pilots of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF in front of Hawker Hurricane Mk I at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 7 September 1940.
Pilot Officer A V "Taffy" Clowes of No. 1 Squadron standing by the nose of his Hawker Hurricane Mk I at Wittering, October 1940.
Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.
Paratroops on parade outside a hangar at No 1 Parachute Training School, Ringway, Manchester.
Paratroopers of 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, jumping from an American C-130 Hercules in Kuwait, during training for operations in Iraq, 16 March 2003.
One of the specially modified Avro Lancasters used by No. 617 Squadron on the raid against the Ruhr dams, 16/17 May 1943.
One of the portable concrete-making machines used in the construction of the Hindenburg Line, and found at Izel-les-Equerchin on its capture by the 8th Division.
