Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L4842 being flown by test pilot Bill Pegg near Filton, 29 May 1939. The aircraft served with No. 53 Squadron and was shot down on 17 May 1940 over France.
A typical group of 'Aussie' aircrew of No 460 Squadron, RAAF, photographed at Breighton, Yorkshire, 21 April 1942.
Aircrew of No. 58 Squadron RAF undergo a briefing by the Station Commander in the Operations Room at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire, prior to an operation.
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Leading Aircraftmen W E Rushton and R Carrick of No. 12 Balloon Centre based at Tichfield, Hampshire, 'bed down' a kite balloon following inspection, during one of the FABIUS invasion exercises conducted in the Southampton area. In the foreground is the portable winch operated by the two-man crews to raise and lower the balloon.
Original wartime caption: Picture (issued 1944) shows - A 12,000 lb. bomb compared with a 500 lb. and a 1,000 lb. bomb.
Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over the railway yards at Saintes, France, following an attack by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 23/24 June 1944. Almost every building in the yard is either destroyed or severely hit, and every line cut or torn up.
High oblique aerial of the camouflaged airfield at Brest/Guipavas, France, during a daylight attack by North American Mitchells of Nos. 98 and 180 Squadrons RAF. Two sticks of bombs are exploding across the landing area and runway, and there is a concentration of bursts on a hangar and its tarmac apron (top left).
Original wartime caption: In the crew room. The night bomber crews get ready for their flights.
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World War 2: RAF Bomber Command during World War 2 - RAF Bomber Command was created in 1936 and comprised the RAF's light and heavy bomber squadrons
An RAF officer surveys the wreckage of the machine tool shop of the Rheinmetall-Borsig AG arms factory at Derendorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, which was severely damaged during a raid by Bomber Command on the night of 2/3 November 1944.
Aerial photographies taken by American LIFE William Vandivert in July 1945 of the bombed out Berlin at the end of the World War 2. Bomb damage by RAF Bomber Command and USAAF bombing campaign
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Vickers Wellington Mk IC bombers of No. 149 Squadron in flight, circa August 1940.
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