Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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Low-level oblique aerial photograph taken during an attack on an enemy radio-equipped trawler off Borkum Island by three Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of No. 21 Squadron RAF. Sergeant E A R R Leaver's aircraft, V6034 'YH-D', can be seen (left) spinning out of control after hitting the ship's mast during his attack. The 21 year- old pilot and his crew, Sergeant I Overheu and Sergeant J Phelps, were all killed, although the "squealer" (a vessel equipped with radio to warn enemy shipping of impending aerial attack) was sunk. 20 July 1941

 

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Private J.E. McPhee of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, armed with a Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk 1(T) sniper rifle under German mortar fire at Foiano di Val Fortore, Italy. 6 October 1943

 

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Soputa, New Guinea Campaign. 20 July 1943. Corporal F. J. Gleeson (left) and Private N. G. Creswell of the 15th Australian War Graves Register and Enquiry Unit, paint crosses.

 

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An Australian Soldier, landed on Borneo from a Coast Guard-manned LST covers a Japanese pill box, while Coast Guard combat photographer Gerald Anker of Los Angeles, Cal., does the same with his camera. 1945

 

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British and American troops meet on the Anzio Road in Italy. 10 May 1944

 

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Soldiers man a Bren Gun position in Naples, Italy - October 1943

 

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The BEF arrives in France, September - 1 October 1939: A British soldier is greeted with flowers by a French girl at Rouen.

 

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Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, 3 April 1940.

Men of the 1st Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment enjoy a tot of rum in a section of trench named 'Pudding Lane', 4th Division near Roubaix, 3 April 1940

 

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Two soldiers pay their respects at a British First World War cemetery, 5 November 1939.

 

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Men of the BEF being transported from Cherbourg to their assembly area in a railway goods wagon, 29 September 1939.

 

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A 40mm Bofors gun crew on the quayside at Southampton having returned from France during the evacuation of British forces from Cherbourg, 19 June 1940.

 

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Men of the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 51st Highland Division, Millbosche, France. 7 June 1940.

The driver of a Bren gun carrier of 51st Highland Division, June 1940.

 

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Smiling troops disembarking at a French port, 28 January 1940

 

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A patient recovering at No. 1 General Hospital in the Casino building at Dieppe, November 1939.

 

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Two soldiers peer out from the entrance to their dugout, named '10 Downing Street', made from old car doors and corrugated iron, 28 November 1939.

 

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Lorries carrying troops of 105 Field Park Coy, Royal Engineers through Brebieres, 11 September 1939.

 

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Men of the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers celebrate St David's Day, 1 March 1940

 

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Light Tank Mk VI crews of 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, attached to 51st Division, 19 March 1940.

 

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Men of the 1st Battalion the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) on a training exercise at Bourghelles, France, on 21 March 1940.

 

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An exhausted British soldier catches up on his sleep on board the steamer 'Royal Sovereign' en route to Southampton during the evacuation of British troops from Cherbourg, 13 June 1940.