Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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In flight between New Guinea and Australia. Members of the RAAF and AIF injured in action by the Japanese are flown in specially equipped aircraft of the RAAF Transport Command to hospitals in the rear area. Badly injured patients are carried in stretchers fixed to the side of the aircraft by special brackets. The walking wounded are seated in the normal manner, Senior Sister E. Bray and a Nursing Orderly, Sergeant Dawson, members of the RAAF Nursing Service attached to No. 1 Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit RAAF, attend to patients during the flight

 

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Crews of 4th Royal Tank Regiment work on their Matilda Mk I tanks beside farm buildings in Acq, Nord-Pas-de-Calais. 19 October 1939

 

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Stuart III (M3A1) light tank of 34th Armoured Brigade, 107 RAC's Recce Troop, crossing a Bailey Bridge over the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal at Rijkevorsel Belgium - 22 October 1944

 

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Canadian infantrymen en route to France aboard the Landing Craft Infantry LCI (L)s 276, 118 and 135 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd Royal Navy) Flotilla, Southampton, England, June 1944

 

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Flt Lt Barrie Heath of No. 611 Squadron RAF posing with a piece of downed German aircraft and dressed in German flight overalls and giving a Nazi salute in mockery. 1941.

 

[Mark Sman]

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SAS original Mike Sadler talks about being pulled into the SAS and his first operation with them. Possibly a repost as the video is older.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sadler

 

[NebrHogger]

Photoset of WW2 RAF. Captions included when available.

 

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More WW2 RAF.

 

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A few more RAF pics. Most with captions.

 

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Tankies pose with their Sherman III (M4A2) in North Africa during the 2nd Battle of El Alamein - October 1942
Nicknamed "Blighty", this Sherman III of 5 Troop, B Squadron, 47 RTR, was knocked out on Kidney Ridge on 27 October 1942 with the loss of the loader/operator: Trooper Frederick Keates.
Lt. Bob Hiseman (wearing binoculars) and gunner trooper Mackay (standing behind Keates) were wounded when a shell hit the turret.

 

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Men of the Wiltshire Regiment from the 26th Indian Infantry Division prepare a meal beside a temple on Ramree Island. January 1945

 

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Sherman III named “Bramham Moor” of 'B' Squadron, Royal Scots Greys, 4th Armoured Brigade, fording the Teano river in Italy - 29 October 1943

 

[uktabber]

Marvelous photos posted mate, Thank You for doing so!!

 

[BravoZulu]

Albemarle ST Mark I of 'C' Flight, 511 Squadron, parked at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire.One of six Mk. I airframes that were modified to the 'standard transport' configuration and used to transport important people and items on the UK-Gibraltar-Algiers route between 1943 and 1945.

 

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Tarpon and 100# bombs

 

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Private Herbert Escreet, of Carrajung Victoria, who served with the 2/5th Battalion, Australian 6th Division. Herbert is pictured catching his breath during a halt on a track in the Mubo area during the New Guinea Campaign on August 3, 1943. He survived WW2

 

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18 November 1944
A soldier of the 5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 214th Infantry Brigade, 43rd (Wessex) Division, carrying a PIAT anti-tank weapon, resting during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany.

 

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British tanker MV San Demetrio, showing extensive damage from shelling by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, is making its way up the River Clyde to Kingston shipyard in Port Glasgow for repairs.

On the ship’s bridge and poop deck, the crew had scrawled “SOS” and “Help!”.

Prior to this, the tanker had picked up 11,200 tons of aviation fuel in Galveston, Texas, USA, intended for delivery to Avonmouth, Somerset, England.

 

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A captured Japanese Type 2 Ka-Mi amphibious tank coming ashore after trials carried out by members of Australian 2/4 Armoured Regiment in Talili Bay, Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 20 Nov 1945

 

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Soldiers from the Australian 2/16th Battalion had their photo taken in September 1941. This was just months after the Syria-Lebanon campaign where their battalion suffered the most casualties (264) out of any Australian battalion involved. Only a few months later after this photo was taken, they would be on the Kokoda Track