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Members of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on parade in 1918.

Members of the Women's Land Army climbing over a gate on a British farm during the First World War.

Members of the O'Rourke family sleeping in an air raid shelter under the railway arches in Bermondsey, London during November 1940.

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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'.

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Mechanics work on the port engines of an Avro Lancaster

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Mark I 'Male' Tank of 'C' Company that broke down on its way to attack Thiepval on 25 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

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Major General George 'Pip' Roberts (right), commanding 11th Armoured Division, with Brigadier Roscoe Harvey of 29th Armoured Brigade, and a Sherman command tank, Normandy, 15 August 1944.

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Looking across Tower Bridge at night in 1940.

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Londoners sleeping in the passageway of a London Underground station, probably Aldwych, in November 1940.

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Lockheed Hudsons of No. 233 Squadron RAF based at Aldergrove in Northern Ireland, 30 May 1941.

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Lines of barbed-wire obstacles stretch across snow-covered fields near Menin in France, 21 January 1940.

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Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery, commanding the British Eighth Army in North Africa, in the turret of his Grant command tank at El Alamein, 5 November 1942.

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Land Army girls sawing larch poles to lengths for pit props.

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Kite balloons of No. 1 Balloon Training Unit at Cardington, October 1940.

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King George VI listens as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery outlines his future strategy at his mobile headquarters in Holland, 13 October 1944.

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Joseph Stalin, Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on the veranda of the Soviet Legation in Teheran, during the first 'Big Three' Conference, November 1943.

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