Winston Churchill stops 'Blackie', ship's cat of HMS PRINCE OF WALES, crossing over to a US destroyer during the Atlantic Conference, August 1941.
The western bell towers of St Paul's Cathedral in London seen through an archway after the heavy incendiary raid of 29 December 1940.
Supermarine Spitfire Mark Is of No. 610 Squadron based at Biggin Hill, flying in 'vic' formation, 24 July 1940.
Sailors surround the ship's cat "Convoy" asleep in a miniature hammock on board HMS HERMIONE, Gibraltar, 26 November 1941.
Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.
A Royal Navy officer using a sextant aboard a destroyer on convoy protection duties, 1942.
Supermarine Spitfire PRXI 'Thank U NHS' Spitfire.
Winston Churchill outside 10 Downing Street, 21 November 1941.
The Operations Room at RAF Fighter Command's No. 10 Group Headquarters, Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Wiltshire, showing WAAF plotters and duty officers at work, 1943.
Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942.
A soldier from No. 1 Commando climbs up a steep rock face during training at Glencoe in Scotland, 19 November 1941.
A British soldier gives a V-for-Victory sign to German prisoners captured at El Alamein, 26 October 1942.
A British sailor uses a sewing machine to repair a signal flag on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V 249 Sqn RAF based at Ta Qali airfield, Malta 1943
North American TF51D Mustang 'Contrary Mary', North American P-51D Mustang 'Miss Helen', and Republic P-47D Thunderbolt flying together
VE Day in London, 8 May 1945
Free French soldiers attend a mass at sunrise during the siege of Bardia in Libya, December 1940.
Winston Churchill watching a Short Stirling bomber of No. 7 Squadron taking off, 6 June 1941.
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.
The Supermarine Spitfire, 1938
The crew of HM Submarine UTMOST displaying their "Jolly Roger" at Holy Loch in Scotland after a successful year's service in the Mediterranean, 6 February 1942.
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 2 Squadron SAAF based at Palata, Italy, flying in loose line astern formation over the Adriatic Sea while on a bombing mission to the Sangro River battlefront.
Still from the British film "The Battle of the Somme".
