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HMS HERMES passes HMS VICTORY as she enters Portsmouth harbour on returning from the Falklands War on 21 July 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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RAF formation training

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Avro Lancaster aircraft under construction at the A V Roe & Co Ltd factory at Woodford in Cheshire, 1943.

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British newly married couple under the arch of Lewis guns. WW1

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The aircraft carrier HMS INVINCIBLE silhouetted against the horizon as she sails towards the Falkland Islands. 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Two British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS 1s in flight during the Falklands Conflict, 1982.

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Tea & sandwiches are offered to evacuated troops aboard a train at Addison Road station, London,31May1940. #Dunkirk

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A Royal Navy FRS 1 Sea Harrier comes in to land on HMS HERMES at sunset during the Falklands War. 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Vulcan aircraft of No 44 Squadron RAF carried out five bombing missions (code named Black Buck) over the Falklands during the Conflict. 1982

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The last British Avro Lancaster in flying condition over Avro Vulcan B.2s of 230 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) based at RAF Finningley.

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AOC Malta, Air Vice Marshal Keith Park about to taxi in a Supermarine Spitfire V to mark the opening of Malta's new airstrip at Safi. 1943

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Two Sea Harrier FRS 1s of 801 Naval Air Squadron in flight during the Falklands War. 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Feeding their mascot at the tank park at Rollancourt, 20th June 1917.

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T E Lawrence as Aircraftman T E Shaw on the aerodrome at Miranshah Fort in Waziristan, India during his service in RAF. 1926-28.

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Two Spitfire IX's of No 241 Squadron, Royal Air Force, flying above the smouldering Mount Vesuvius. January 1944. #BritainsMilHist

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Memorial to Lt. Col. H. Jones VC OBE, outside Darwin settlement, marking the spot where he died on 28 May 1982 during Battle of Goose Green.

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Sea Harriers of No 801 Squadron at the hover over HMS INVINCIBLE during the Falklands Conflict. 1982

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45 Royal Marine Commando marches towards Port Stanley during Falklands War, 1982. Marine Peter Robinson carries the Union Flag on his pack.

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The aircraft carrier HMS HERMES sails out of Portsmouth for the South Atlantic, at the start of the Falklands War, 1982.

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Two Sea Harrier FRS 1s in flight. They are from 801 Naval Air Squadron. Falklands War.1982. #BritainsMilHist

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British soldiers marching through streets of Ypres, 14 October 1914.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA,of 72 Sqn, RAF based at Acklington, Northumberland, in flight over the coast, piloted by F/Lt R. Elliot1941

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The Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940

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HMS HERMES about to berth alongside at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falklands War on 21 July 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Sea Harrier XZ 499 of No 800 Naval Air Squadron takes off from the aircraft carrier HMS HERMES for Combat Air Patrol. #BritainsMilHist

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Three Avro Vulcan B2s of 617 Sqn, carrying Blue Steel training rounds, take off in quick succession at RAF Scampton on 9 August 1963.

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A Harrier of No 1 Squadron RAF is prepared for a sortie on the flight deck of HMS HERMES during the Falklands War. 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Naval Party 8901,RM garrison of Falkland Isl, with Falkland Isl. flag outside Gov't House, Port Stanley, afterArgentine surrender,June 1982.

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Lt J Fathergill, CO of 'B' Squadron, 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps, 34th Tank Brigade, preparing hand grenades on his Churchill tank, 17 July 1944. The small plaque fixed to the turret stowage bin shows the tank has been adopted by the his home town, Bishops Stortford.

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Royal Marines from 3 Commando Brigade raise the Union Jack on landing at San Carlos beachhead during Operation SUTTON on 21 May 1982.

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Avro Lancasters of No. 57 Squadron lined up at dusk before an operation, Scampton in Lincolnshire, February 1943.

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Handley Page Victor B.1A seen in flight over Malaysian jungle in 1965 on an Operation Chamfrom deployment during Indonesian Confrontation.

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Churchill tanks drive along a badly damaged street in Kleve, Germany, 12 February 1945.

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Harrier GR3, XZ130, of No 3 Squadron RAF, based at Wildenrath, seen in flight during an exercise over the Borken area of Germany.

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Short Sunderland Mark I, N9029 V, of No. 230 Squadron RAF, taking off from Aboukir Bay. 1941. #BritainsMilHist

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An English Electric Lightning F.6 of No 74 Squadron at RAF Leuchars, Fife, banking sharply to port. #BritainsMilHist

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HMS VICTORY, Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, anchored in Portsmouth Harbour in 1909. #BritainsMilHist

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A Long Range Desert Group truck halted while its crew enjoy a midday break in the shade beneath the vehicle, July 1942.

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Supermarine Southampton Mk.II of 201 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Interwar years.

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Avro Vulcan B2 of 50 Sqn, RAF Cottesmore wing, leads in ‘Vic’ formation four English Electric Lightning F.6s during a flight in April 1968.

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Three Hawker Siddeley Argosys, either of No 114 Squadron or No 267 Squadron both based at RAF Benson, in flight. 1962-70.

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Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940. #BritainsMilHist

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40 Commando Anti-Tank Troop march towards Port Stanley. RM P Robinson, carrying Union Flag attached to radio he is carrying, brings up rear.

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HMS HERMES during the Falklands War. Her flight deck is crowded with Harriers of 1 Sqn RAF, Sea Harriers of 800 & 809 NAS & Lynx helicopter.

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Two English Electric Lightning F.3s, of No 74 Squadron are seen in flight in 1964. Each aircraft is armed with two Firestreak missiles.

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A PIAT gunner of the 1st Norfolk Regiment during the advance on Wanssum, Holland, 26 November 1944.

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CF104 Starfighter of Royal Canadian Air Force in flight alongside a Hawker Hurricane & Supermarine Spitfire of the Battle of Britain Flight.

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Lancaster Bombers nearing completion in Avro’s Assembly Plant at Woodford near Manchester, 1943.

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A soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to have a bath in Tobruk, 17 February 1942

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The pilot, navigator and bomb aimer at their positions in a Handley Page Halifax, October 1941.

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The Little Ships at Dunkirk: June 1940

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Avro Lancasters await their crews in their dispersals at sunset, before taking off from Scampton, Lincolnshire on a bombing raid. Nov 1943

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HMS 'Vindictive' Storming Zeebrugge Mole. Painting by Charles John de Lacy

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Soldiers of 1st Welsh Guards in action near Cagny during Operation 'Goodwood', 19 July 1944.

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Parachutists of the RAF Parachute Brigade boarding a Blackburn Beverly aircraft via the rear loading ramp. October 1959.

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Three Hawker Siddeley Argosys, either of No 114 Squadron or No 267 Squadron both based at RAF Benson, in flight. 1963-69

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Marines of 45 Royal Marine Commando enter Port Stanley after a 40 mile march across the Falkland Islands, 4 June 1982.

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British troops eating their Christmas dinner in a shell hole, Beaumont Hamel, 25th December 1916

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A Long Range Desert Group Chevrolet 30cwt 1533 truck negotiates the slope of a sand dune during a patrol in the desert, 27 March 1941.

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Harrier GR.1 'A' of No 3 Squadron RAF hovering during Exercise GRIM CHARADE in the North Rhine-Westphalia province of Germany, August 1973.

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An officer York and Lancaster Regiment feeds a puppy outside a reinforced dugout in a trench near Roclincourt, 13 January, 1918.

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HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982.

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British paratroops inside a Dakota transport aircraft on their way to Holland during 1st Airborne Division's operation to Arnhem, 17 September 1944.

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HMS ARK ROYAL,her ship's company lining the deck and her Scimitar, Sea Vixen and Whirlwind aircraft on the flight deck.1961. #BritainsMilHist

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Maj Gen J Moore,Royal Marines,CO,British Forces in Falklands, meets jubilant Islanders in Port Stanley after Argentine surrender,15June1982.

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McDonnell Douglas F-4M Phantom FGR2 in flight over RAF Aldergrove, Northern Ireland. 1967

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Boulton Paul Defiant Mk Is of No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940.

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A Gloster Javelin FAW.9R (XH890) of No 23 Squadron RAF.

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RAF 1962:aircraft left to right: Supermarine Spitfire, English Electric Lightning F.1, Gloster Javelin, Hawker Hunter F.6&Hawker Hunter T.7

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An Avro Vulcan B2 (MRR), XH534, of No 27 Squadron RAF, based at Scampton, in flight over the sea, August 1976.

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Troops of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (37th Division) marching to the trenches, St Pol (Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise), November 1916.

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42 Commando, Royal Marines, moves off Mount Harriet during the mountain battles during the Falklands War. 1982. #BritainsMilHist

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Paratroops of 22 Independent Parachute Company, British 6th Airborne Division, with their toy mascot 'Pegasus' at RAF Harwell, 5 June 1944

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A Handley Page Victor K.1prepares to refuel a de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2 (starboard wing) and Blackburn Buccaneer S.1 (port wing).

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Three Avro Lancaster B Mark Is of No 44 Squadron, Royal Air Force based at Waddington, Lincolnshire, flying above the clouds.

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3 Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2's of No 237 Operational Conversion Unit, photographed in stepped line abreast formation during early 1970s.

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View of a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun position overlooking Grand Harbour, Malta, 10 June 1942.

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Two British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS 1s in flight. They are from background to foreground: ZA176 and XZ451 both of 801 Naval Air Squadron.

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A heavily-armed patrol of 'L' Detachment SAS in their jeeps in the North African Desert, January 1943.

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An air engineer of Avro Shackleton MR.3 of No 206 Sqn, checks wheel bay & undercarriage of aircraft pre-flight at RAF St Mawgan,Cornwall1964

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Future enemies at peace.HMS Hood(back),HMS Resolution(centre),&Admiral Graf Spee(fore),at Portsmouth for King George VI's Coronation,May1937

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Lancaster crew

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Supermarine Spitfire & Hawker Hurricane along with a Hawker Hunter F.6 & Gloster Javelin FAW.7 in flight together in August 1959.

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The tank park at Rollancourt, 20th June 1917

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A British soldier bidding goodbye to a nurse at his ward at No. 29 Casualty Clearing Station RAMC at Bonn. 1919

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Two Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.1 aircraft flying over HMS EAGLE, 1964. #BritainsMilHist

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A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Normandy, 9 August 1944.

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A Sherman Firefly and other vehicles in the village of Putanges, 20 August 1944.

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A formation of Royal Navy Sea Harriers in flight shortly before being deployed during the Falklands Conflict.

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A Matilda tank during an exercise in the Maltese countryside, 24 May 1942. Note the distinctive camouflage, and its inspiration - a stone wall - behind.