Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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A Challenger (A30) tank crosses a Bailey bridge over the Dommel river, near Esch. 27 October 1944.

 

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Bren gun team of the 2nd Cameronians, 5th Division, in a position high up in the mountains in Italy - 21 November 1943

 

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A King Tiger of the 503rd heavy tank battalion, after it has been rammed by a British Sherman commanded by Lieutenant John Gorman of the 2nd Armoured Irish Guards, Guards Armoured Division during Operation Goodwood. Gorman and his crew then captured most of the Tiger's crew. The event took place on 18 July 1944 to the west of Cagny, Normandy, France.

 

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A knocked out M10 tank destroyer of the 7th Royal Welch Fusiliers Battalion sits dormant on a Dutch street as civilians examine the wreckage. The M10 was knocked out by a StuG III of Schwere Panzerjager-Abteilung 559. Hertogenbosch, Holland, October 26th 1944

 

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An Avro Lancaster Mk III of No. 49 Squadron RAF is guided to its dispersal point at Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid on Berlin, 22 November 1943.

 

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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.
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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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The gentlemen in the first photo have some rather old rifles. Those are the MkIII, not MkIII*. From what I know, the MkIII was phased out of production in 1916 in favor of the MkIII* to ease production due to wartime pressures. Sometimes the magazine cutoff would reappear in later production to use up stocks of old parts, but it was unusual. AFAIK, the long range volley sights never did resurface in production after 1916, with Weedon removing the sights on the existing rifles as they came in for overhaul in the interwar period.

 

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Bristol Beaufort twin-engined torpedo bombers of No. 8 and 100 Squadron RAAF taxiing to take off for a night raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, on January 5, 1944.

 

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The Regimental Sergeant Major and other members of the 5th Cameron Highlanders preparing Christmas puddings in the Western Desert, 28 December 1942.

 

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A young PIAT gunner from 1st Battalion the Rifle Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, emerges from his foxhole near Nieuwstadt, Netherlands - 28 December 1944

 

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A four-horn acoustic locator used in the early stages of the Blitz.