Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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15 April 1945 – Arnhem, Netherlands – Section of the Perths moving through the city. Governor General's Horse Guards' Sherman to the right.
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Gun emplacements of Australian heavy artillery at False Cape, near Cairn, Queensland.

 

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Cairns, Qld. 1944-01-12. RAAF Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat, coded RB-U, - a "Black Cat" - taxies out along the water before a long-range mission.

 

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A damaged Lancaster from No. 426 Squadron after returning from a sortie over Leipzig, Germany in October 1943.
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Crew are up on deck around Q Turret on HMS Bellerophon.
This pic was taken while the ship was either just starting or cleaning down from coaling, a long arduous task that saw the crew manually lift and move anywhere up to 3000 tons of coal into the ships bunkers. By the end the crew would be Black from soot, and coal dust would get everywhere meaning that the next job that needed doing was a clean ship routine.

 

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15 April 1945 – Netherlands – A section of Perths of ‘D’ Company takes a break on the roadside during the advance north from Arnhem to Harderwijk. Left to right: Cpl GC Gavey; No.1 Bren Pte GF Cote; Pte Wilbert R. Flood; Pte GC Compton; Pte RN White; LCpl EW Wilson.
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Between the wars the British Army experimented with the concept of amphibious tanks.
Here, a Vickers Light Tank Mk II (A4E13 - A4E15) has been fitted with large bouyancy cells and an outboard motor for propulsion.
The tank commander seemed somewhat unphased by it all!
(IWM)

 

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Crew of Handley Page Halifax bomber from RCAF No. 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron getting a ‘thumbs-up’ in January 1945.
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Original wartime caption: For story see CH.11872. Picture (issued 1944) shows - Aircraftwoman J. Waterton of Lochend Road, Musselburgh, a Flight Mechanic [Engine] formerly a shop assistant and Aircraftwoman/2 P.McPhee of Balgarva, Outer Hebrides, at work on an Oxford.
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HMS Campbeltown being inspected by German officers shortly before she explodes, killing 250 and rendering the drydock she rammed useless for the remainder of the war.

The obsolete battleship HMS Centurion dressed up as HMS Anson for Operation Vigorous, June 1942

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All my readings of WWII and do not remember reading about HMS Campbeltown . Interesting and daring mission.

 

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Lancaster bomber of No 1 Group, RAF Bomber Command over Hamburg, Germany, night of Jan 30-31, 1943.
Imperial War Museum

 

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A QF 2pdr(40mm) "Pom-Pom" anti-aircraft mount aboard HMS King George V.

 

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A warden gives directions to a mother and her two children during a World War II gas drill in Southend on March 29, 1941.

 

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Home Guard troopers with Tommyguns.

 

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Paratrooper Ronald Green 6th Airborne, Royal Welch 2nd independent, photo taken at Monte Cassino Italy 1944.

 

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Members of a Papuan Infantry Unit prior to a forward area patrol. Sergeant F. Wust of Eumundi, Qld, checks his patrol's weapons. New Guinea, 1943.
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Infantry of the 2nd New Zealand Division link up with Matilda tanks of the Tobruk garrison during Operation 'Crusader’ .
Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during World War II by the British Eighth Army (with British, Commonwealth, Indian and Allied contingents) against the Axis forces (German and Italian) in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel. The operation was intended to bypass Axis defences on the Egyptian–Libyan frontier, to defeat the Axis armoured forces and to relieve the 1941 Siege of Tobruk.

 

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Troops of the Australian 25th Battalion search Japanese bodies for documents and equipment after the action on Slater's Knoll, 6 April 1945.