Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces

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British MTBs returning from an anti-E-boat patrol, June 1944.

 

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HMS Howe transiting the Suez Canal in Egypt.
The year is 1944.

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Take a look at that cathedrals bell tower......those are some very neatly placed holes mate! I did not notice it at first but then thought they were part of the design.......no doubt put there but the previous residents as firing ports for snipers I'd guess?

As it is today -

 

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THANKS [U]Connaught Ranger[/U] for the new pictures, neat! I guess they liked the holes or they have a purpose I'm not privy to.

 

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Two unidentified crew members from HMCS TRENTONIAN during the North Atlantic crossing in April 1944. It is still cold on the open ocean as there are icicles hanging from the kisby ring.

 

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Photos taken from HMCS Algonquin, likely during Operation Tungsten, an air raid that targeted the German battleship Tirpitz at her base in Kaafjord in the far north of Norway on 3 April 1944. LAC MIKAN 4950933 and 4950935.

 

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Spitfire Mk I of No. 19 Squadron RAF being re-armed between sorties at Fowlmere, near Duxford, September 1940.

 

[uktabber]

What a great photo of the lads at work in the big one, WWII getting the Spitfire ready and back up.....bloody great photo mate!!

 

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Syria–Lebanon campaign July 1941, Australian troops among the ruins of the old Crusader castle at Sidon, Lebanon.

Soldiers of Australian 6th Division operate light machine gun in action near Wewak, New Guinea; June 1945

Lt. R.H. Dawson of the Australian 2/6th Field Regiment firing a captured Japanese mountain gun against enemy positions on Coconut Ridge, July 30, 1943.

 

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25 April, 1941, Grangemouth airfield. A Hurricane, a Blenheim and three Spitfires

April 25, 1945, Bremen, Germany. Men from King's Own Scottish Borderers. Note the giant Luftschutzbunker in the background.

 

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April 25,1943. RAF Beaufighter Mark VI from 144 Squadron.

 

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April 26, 1944. A Churchill AVRE carpet layer from British 79 Armoured "Hobart's Funnies" Division.

April 26, 1945, Bremen area, Germany. Churchill tanks and a Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier.

 

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A Short Stirling from 75 (NZ) Squadron that was fighter damaged over Duisburg on 26/4/1943. Sgt B.A Rogers was found dead in the rear-turret after landing.

 

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Private DG Kotz with a prototype 60 round Owen magazine, Labuan Island, June 1944.

 

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FINSCHHAFEN AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-09. NX108123 MAJOR J.H.D. EDWARDS, DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, 2ND AUSTRALIAN CORPS EXAMINING A ISOLATED ROCK POOL IN DRY WEALTHER SHOWING HEAVY BREEDING OF THE MOSQUITO LARVAE.

 

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Port Moresby, New Guinea. 1944-04-10. VX89924 Corporal C. Bourke at the 11th Advance Workshop, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, replacing track rod ends on a Ford V8 vehicle.

 

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FINSCHHAFEN AREA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-09. QX44130 CAPTAIN J.L. GROOM, COMMANDING OFFICER 15TH MALARIA CONTROL UNIT, (1), WITH NX108123 MAJOR J.H.D. EDWARDS (2), DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, 2ND AUSTRALIAN CORPS EXAMINING A LARGE DRAIN 300 YARDS LONG WHICH WAS COMPLETED BY TWENTY FIVE NATIVES IN NINE DAYS USING THE ASSISTANCE OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES.

 

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FORTIFICATION POINT, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-06. A JAPANESE 75MM REGIMENTAL GUN TYPE MEIJI 41 BEING FIRED WITH A LANYARD BY MEMBERS OF THE 2/14TH FIELD REGIMENT AT THE FRONTAL ARMOUR OF A DISABLED MATILDA TANK DURING TESTS ARRANGED BY THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SECTION, ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS AT HEADQUARTERS 5TH DIVISION. THE WEAPON WAS SERVICED BY MEMBERS OF THE 2/83RD LIGHT AID DETACHMENT. IDENTIFIED PERSONNEL ARE:- SX11511 SERGEANT A.B. WHITTING (1); SX10693 GUNNER C.H. HALL (2); SX10807 GUNNER S. GERMEIN (3); VX52611 GUNNER D.B. OFFICER (4); SX4911 GUNNER W.J.M. HALL (5)

 

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FORTIFICATION POINT, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-06. THE EFFECT OF A HOLLOW CHARGE ROUND NO. 6 PROJECTILE FIRED FROM A JAPANESE 75MM REGIMENTAL GUN TYPE MEIJI 41 AT THE FRONTAL ARMOUR OF A DISABLED MATILDA TANK DURING TESTS ARRANGED BY THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SECTION, ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS AT HEADQUARTERS 5TH DIVISION. THE WEAPON WAS SERVICED BY THE 2/83RD LIGHT AID DETACHMENT AND FIRED BY A CREW FROM THE 2/14TH FIELD REGIMENT AT A RANGE OF 150 YARDS.

 

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LAKONA, NEW GUINEA. 1944-04-05. NX114181 CAPTAIN A.E. RICKARDS, THE AMENITIES OFFICER AT HEADQUARTERS 5TH DIVISION, TUNES THE RADIO TO THE EARLY MORNING AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION NEWS BROADCAST.