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The following table is a search of Category:Collections of the Imperial War Museum for any description matches to 'Gibraltar|Ceuta|Algerciras|Tarifa|Monmouth|Derby'
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Convoys during the Second World War Two lieutenants, one a Royal Navy Reserve the other a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve use coded tags to plot the positions of convoys on a large wall map of the British Isles and North Atlantic. This map is in the Operations Room of Derby House, Liverpool, the home of Western Approaches Command, July 1941. |
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Fleet Air Arm Personnel at Gibraltar. February 1944. Lieut (A) P M Compston, RN, Air Gunnery Officer. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS KENT off Liverpool. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS KENT underway off Liverpool. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The SAMSONIA alongside the damaged HMS ARIGUANI at Greenock. SAMSONIA had just completed her task of towing ARIGUANI nearly 1,400 miles from Gibraltar at a speed of 6 knots for eight days in rough weather. HMS ARIGUANI had suffered damage to her stern and on the way back enemy aircraft attacked the ships but without success. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War In the distance HMS INDOMITABLE, almost hidden by a hail of near misses, during the bombing attack, part of the great sea-air battle which covered the passage of this vital Malta convoy. HMS INDOMITABLE was damaged by near misses. When she approached Gibraltar after the battle was over and the convoy safely through, the Royal Marines played the ship into harbour, using as their bandstand the top of her buckled forward lift. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A half length portrait of Admiral Sir Max K Horton, KCB, DSO, Commander in Chief, Western Approaches stood in his office at Derby House, Liverpool, which overlooks the Operations Room (not in view). |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War At Gibraltar, Lieutenant in Charge, Lieutenant Lionel Crabbe, RNVR of the Underwater Working Party wearing some of his diving gear. The party examine underwater fittings, diving wearing only their swimming trunks, breathing apparatus and glasses. Ratings can volunteer for this cold job, for which they get extra pay. After two dips each man is allowed a tot of rum. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Women's Royal Naval Service: HM Queen Elizabeth meeting 1st Officer Jean Davies, MBE, of Liverpool, when inspecting the WRNS Guard of Honour outside Derby House, Liverpool one of the Western Approaches establishments. With Her Majesty is Chief Officer D A Hesskgrave, and in the background is Commodore I A P Macintyre, CBE, DSO, RN, Chief of Staff. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The group plot with main plot in the background in the operations room, Derby House, Liverpool, three Wrens can be seen at work. All escort groups and the areas they cover are shown here. It was in this room that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned throughout the Second World War. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Two Wrens at work at the convoy plot in the operations room, Derby House, Liverpool which gives the exact positions of each convoy. It was in this room that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned throughout the Second World War. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS LEGION moving alongside the damaged and listing HMS ARK ROYAL in order to take off survivors. The aircraft carrier was torpedoed by the German U-boat U 81 off Gibraltar. HMS ARK ROYAL sank the following day. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS LEGION moving alongside the damaged and listing HMS ARK ROYAL in order to take off survivors. The aircraft carrier was torpedoed by the German U-boat U 81off Gibraltar. HMS ARK ROYAL sank the following day. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War View from HMS HERMIONE of the damaged and listing HMS ARK ROYAL. The aircraft carrier was torpedoed by the German U-boat U 81 off Gibraltar. HMS ARK ROYAL sank the following day. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The crew stood on the wing of their crashed Bristol Beaufort aircraft photographed from the cruiser HERMIONE off Gibraltar. The bomber was seen to crash into the sea by the masthead look-out on the cruiser which then steamed to the rescue. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS LARGS moored at Greenock. Formerly the CHARLES PLUMIER a French Armed Merchant Cruiser, captured by the destroyer HMS FAULKNOR on 22 November 1940, off Gibraltar. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Some of the survivors of U 95, leaving the Dutch submarine O 21 along a gang-plank at Gibraltar for a prison camp. Whilst cooperating with the Royal Navy, O 21 had sunk U 95 in the Mediterranean on the night of the 28 November 1941. There were 12 survivors including the commander Kapitan Leutnant Schreiber, three other officers and eight ratings. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Whilst the corvette HMS PENSTEMON is escorting a convoy to Gibraltar, some of the ship's company make a rescue net. The net would be thrown over the side of the ship to help rescue survivors from torpedoed ships. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS HESPERUS entering Gibraltar harbour after she had rammed and sunk a German U-Boat. She carried 36 German prisoners that she had picked up. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Women's Royal Naval Service: With several Wrens stood around it, the "Table" laid out on the floor for a class at the Western Approaches Tactical School, Derby House, Liverpool. Here naval officers are taught the strategy of anti-U-Boat warfare. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War View from HMS HERMIONE of HMS LEGION moving alongside the damaged and listing HMS ARK ROYAL in order to take off survivors. The aircraft carrier was torpedoed by the German U-boat U 81off Gibraltar. HMS ARK ROYAL sank the following day. |
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A Universal Carrier crew of the 2nd Sherwood Foresters fire a 2-inch mortar from their vehicle in the Anzio bridgehead, Italy, April 1944. Carrier crew of the 2nd Sherwood Foresters reconstruct an action in the Anzio bridgehead, 2 - 3 April 1944. They are firing a 2-inch mortar from the vehicle. |
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Middle East Veterans Going Home In a transit camp at Alexandria men in demobilisation groups one to three await to embark on troopships for home. Amongst these men were Private C Collett (left) of 515 Osmaston Park Road, Derby, and Sapper W McNaughton of 149 Netherhill Road, Gallowhill, Paisley, Scotland. |
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The British Army in Italy 1944 A reconstructed scene showing 'action' at Salerno: a Loyd carrier and 6-pdr anti-tank gun of 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) under mortar fire, 2-3 April 1944. |
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The British Army in Italy 1944 A reconstructed scene showing 'action' at Salerno: a 6-pdr anti-tank gun and crew of 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) under mortar fire, 2-3 April 1944. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 A bulldozer and steamroller being used during the construction of a new aerodrome on Gibraltar, November 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 A medical officer examining a 'patient' during a training exercise in an underground hospital in Gibraltar, cut into solid rock and which previously served as an air raid shelter, October 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 'Patients' rest on bunks during a training exercise in an underground hospital in Gibraltar, cut into solid rock and which previously served as an air raid shelter, October 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 Royal Engineer tunnellers using a water pressure drill to clear solid rock while creating the maze of tunnels that can be found through the Rock of Gibraltar, 1 November 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 A view of the Princess Royal Battery armed with a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, taken from the top of the Rock of Gibraltar. Spain can be seen in the background, 17 November 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1941 White Rock Battery showing a 3.7-inch mobile anti-aircraft gun, November 1941. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1942 A newly-arrived Valentine tank on Gibraltar, 30 November 1942. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1942 Staff officers conducting operations from the underground defences on the Rock of Gibraltar, 9 April 1942. |
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The British Army on Gibraltar 1942 Inside a Vickers machine-gun post in the underground defences on the Rock of Gibraltar, 9 April 1942. |
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A Rest Break Home For Nurses- Everyday Life at a Hostel Funded by the British War Relief Society, Bedford Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK, 1945 A general view of women relaxing beside the fire in the lounge of the Bedford Hotel in Buxton. Many are knitting, whilst others read books. |
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A Rest Break Home For Nurses- Everyday Life at a Hostel Funded by the British War Relief Society, Bedford Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK, 1945 Dinner is served by chef Mr Adams and warden Miss Falkhous, in the kitchen of the rest break home for nurses in Buxton. Mr Adams had been the chef at the Bedford Hotel, before it became the nurses' hostel. Also visible is one of the home's waitresses, waiting to carry the food through to the dining room. |
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A Rest Break Home For Nurses- Everyday Life at a Hostel Funded by the British War Relief Society, Bedford Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK, 1945 Off-duty nurses relax in the Games Room at the Bedford Hotel, Buxton. In the foreground, Miss Butler, a probationer, plays table tennis. Behind her Miss Ingram (a hospital nurse) and Miss Melling (QA nursing sister) play a game of snooker. Miss Ingram takes her shot as Miss Melling looks on. According to the original caption, Miss Melling has spent 12 years serving overseas. |
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Colonial Centre- Everyday Life at the Colonial Club, Russell Square, London, England, UK, 1944 In the basement kitchen of the Colonial Centre at 17 Russell Square, cook Frank Baldwin (from British Honduras) carves the roast. He is assisted by Miss A Calbinduras, seen here standing at the cooker, who is an evacuee from Gibraltar. |
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US Ranger Goes To British Battle School- Americans Train For Battle in the UK, 1943 Corporal Harold F Clausen of the United States Army (right) and Sergeant Moug of the Black Watch put the finishing touches to their tin helmet camouflage. Sergeant Moug's camouflage is so good that his helmet is hardly visible! According to the original caption, Sergeant Moug has been in Gibraltar for two years and has come back to Britain especially for this course. |
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War Bride- Everyday Life in Wartime London, March 1943 Newly-engaged couple Harold Lackland Bevan and Marcelle Lestrange examine some pieces of second hand china in a shop in London. All china now being produced in Utility and plain white. Coloured china sets have disappeared with the exception of some remaining pre-war stocks of Crown Derby and Coleport. Second hand dinner services are therefore in huge demand. |
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The British Army in Normandy 1944 Infantry of the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks of the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry wait for the order to advance, near Argentan, 21 August 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944 Sherman tank of 33rd Armoured Brigade moves forward in support of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry during fighting on the outskirts of St Michielsgestel, Holland, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Daimler armoured car of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, 51st Highland Division, passes a burning house in St Michielsgestel, during the drive on Hertogenbosch, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Infantry of 51st Highland Division, supported by Daimler armoured cars of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, pass a burning house in St Michielsgestel, during the drive on Hertogenbosch, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Troops of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, 51st Highland Division, take cover in a ditch during an attack on St Michielsgestel, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Troops of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, 51st Highland Division, take cover in a ditch during an attack on St Michielsgestel, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 A Daimler armoured car of 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, 51st Highland Division, passes a burning house in St Michielsgestel, during the drive on Hertogenbosch, 24 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 An infantryman of the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment asleep in his foxhole outside Uedem, 1 March 1945. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Infantry of the Monmouthshire Regiment cook a meal in a forward position outside Uedem, 1 March 1945. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Two soldiers of the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment resting after a period in the front line, 2 March 1945. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Pte A Anderson of the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment, 59th (Welsh) Division, during the assault on Venraij, 17 October 1944. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Men of the carrier platoon of 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment, 11th Armoured Division, February 1945. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Men of the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment, 53rd (Welsh) Division in Bocholt, 29 March 1945. Note the Nazi slogan painted on the wall. |
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The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Rail-mounted 88mm flak guns captured by the 2nd Monmouthshire Regiment, 53rd (Welsh) Regiment, 13 April 1945. |
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The British Army in the Normandy Campaign 1944 Troops at 2nd Army HQ betting on the Epsom Derby, 17 June 1944. |
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Aviation in Britain Before the First World War The rock of Gibraltar with Spain beyond.. |
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Aviation in Britain Before the First World War The rock of Gibraltar, the resevoir on the eastern side of the dependency. |
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Crimean War 1854 - 1856 Portrait of Sergeant John Geary, Thomas Onslow and Lance Corporal Patrick Carttay, 95th Regiment (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot, wearing their packs and equipment. The 95th Regiment won eight Victoria Cross awards in the Crimea |
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A Lockheed Hudson Mk III of No. 233 Squadron at North Front airfield at Gibraltar, March 1942. Hudson III T9459, part of No 233 Squadron's detachment at North Front airfield, with the famous Rock of Gibraltar providing a backdrop, March 1942. |
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Aerial Reconnaissance View of Liverpool, Great Britain Vertical aerial view from 1,800 feet of the waterfront from the Pier Head to the Albert Dock, and of the city east to Derby Square, showing the extensive bomb damage to the commercial centre. The shell of the burnt out customs shed is visible left centre. |
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Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Armstrong Whitworth Aw.41 Albemarle. Albemarle ST Mark I series 2, P1475, of No. 511 Squadron RAF based at Lyneham, Wiltshire, in flight. One of six Mark I aircraft modified to Lyneham Standard transport configuration and used by 'C' Flight of the Squadron on the UK-Gibraltar-Algiers route. |
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American Aircraft in RAF Service 1939-1945- Consolidated Model 28 Catalina. Catalina Mark I, Z2147 AX-L, of No. 202 Squadron RAF based at Gibraltar, in flight approaching Europa Point on returning from an anti-submarine patrol. While serving with the Squadron, Z2147 was credited with nine successful attacks on enemy submarines. |
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British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. Short S.30 'C' Class Empire Flying Boat, G-AFCZ "Clare" of BOAC, moored at Gibraltar after flying King George of Greece and Sir Stafford Cripps to the colony for a visit. On 12 October 1941, "Clare" made BOAC's first flight to Cairo, routed through Lisbon, Gibraltar and Malta. She was destroyed by fire off Bathurst, West Africa, on 14 September 1942. |
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British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. Curtiss CW-20A/C-55, G-AGDI "St Louis", of BOAC is refuelled at Gibraltar. "St Louis" ran regular supply flights between Lisbon, Gibraltar and the besieged island of Malta from 1941 to 1942. |
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British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. Curtiss CW-20A/C-55, G-AGDI "St Louis", of BOAC, parked at North Front, Gibraltar. "St Louis" ran regular supply flights between Lisbon, Gibraltar and the besieged island of Malta from 1941 to 1942. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Mechanics and armourers prepare Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AJ159 'AX-B', of No. 202 Squadron RAF, for an anti-submarine patrol, while moored at Gibraltar. From a bomb scow under the starboard wing, amourers are clipping tail fins onto 250-lb Depth Charge Bombs fitted to the underwing racks. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Short Sunderland Mark I, L5798 'KG-B', of No. 204 Squadron RAF, based at Bathurst, The Gambia, moored beneath the North Face of the Rock at Gibraltar. Between 1941and 1944, this unit regularly escorted Allied convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa as well as mounting anti-submarine patrols over the South Atlantic. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Air and ground crew of No. 202 Squadron RAF check equipment and ordnance issued to Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AJ159 'AX-B', on the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar, in preparation for a patrol. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Consolidated Catalina Mark I, AH544 'AX-H', of No. 202 Squadron RAF sets course after taking off from Gibraltar on an anti-submarine patrol. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Groundcrew of No. 458 Squadron RAAF sit underneath one of the Squadron's Vickers Wellington Mark XIVs at Gibraltar, while another aircraft takes off past the Rock. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Searchlights illuminate a line of parked Lockheed Ventura GR Mark Vs of No. 22 Squadron SAAF at Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Consolidated Catalina Mark I, Z2417 'AX-L', of No. 202 Squadron RAF flies by the North Front of the Rock as it leaves Gibraltar on a patrol. |
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. A Lockheed Hudson Mark III air-sea rescue aircraft of No. 520 Squadron RAF flies over High Speed Launch No. 181 of No. 71 Air/Sea Rescue Marinecraft Unit while returning to Gibraltar following a search in the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Royal Air Force Flying Training Command, 1940-1945. Air Commodore P E Maitland, Air Officer Commanding Officer Commanding No. 93 (Operational Training) Group, leaving Group Headquarters at Egginton Hall, Derbyshire, just prior to his appointment as Director of Operational Training of FTC. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Squadron Leader J J Lynch, Commanding Officer of No. 249 Squadron RAF, sits in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC at Krendi, Malta, as an airman chalks "Malta's 1,000th" below his victory tally. Lynch, an American who joined the RAF in 1941, served with No. 71 (Eagle) Squadron RAF in the United Kingdom before being posted to 249 Squadron in Malta in Novembe 1942. He became a flight commander in early 1943 and was given the command of the Squadron in March. He enjoyed much success during operations over the sea route between Sicily and Tunisia, and, on the 28 April 1943, shot down a Junkers Ju 52 five miles north of Cap Cefalu which was assessed as being the 1,000th enemy aircraft shot down by Malta-based units since the start of the war. Lynch transferred to the USAAF in July 1943 having scored 10 and 7 shared victories with the RAF. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Bristol Beaufighters of No. 272 Squadron RAF in flight over Malta. Nearest the camera is a Mark VIC, X8079, 'K', which was shot down by German fighters off Maritime Island on 22 May 1943, Behind X8079 is Mark IC, T5043 V. The Squadron flew from both Luqa and Ta Kali during this period. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. A line of Martin Baltimore Mark IVs of No. 223 Squadron RAF Detachment at Luqa, Malta, being refuelled and loaded with bombs for a raid on enemy positions around Catania, Sicily. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Trolleys loaded with 250-lb GP bombs are driven to the flight lines of No. 223 Squadron RAF Detachment at Luqa, Malta, where their Martin Baltimore Mark IVs are being prepared for a raid on enemy positions around Catania, Sicily. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Ground crews servicing, or stripping, a Martin Baltimore Mark IIIA, FA353 'X', of No. 69 Squadron RAF in a revetment built of limestone blocks at Luqa, Malta. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. A Douglas Dakota and a North American Mitchell parked on the hard standing at Luqa while staging through Malta to the Far East. Two airmen in the foreground are squatting against the end of one of the aircraft revetments built of sand-filled fuel tins during the siege. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. A Martin Baltimore of No. 69 Squadron RAF is serviced in a revetment built with limestone blocks at Luqa, Malta. In the background can be seen St Andrew's parish church in Luqa village. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Vickers Wellington B Mark IC, DV513, refuelling at North Front, Gibraltar, while staging through on a ferry flight to the Middle East. DV513 formerly belonged to No. 99 Squadron RAF and was retained in the United Kingdom when that unit moved to the Far East in February 1942. It eventually joined No. 70 Squadron RAF at LG 104, Egypt, only to be lost on 13 August 1942 when it force landed in a lake near Fayum after running out of fuel. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1939-1945. Supermarine Spitfire PR Mark IVs lined up at North Front, Gibraltar, while staging through as reinforcement aircraft for Malta and the Allied landings in North Africa, (Operation TORCH). |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Low-level oblique photograph taken from one of a force of Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs attacking an Italian motor vessel in the Mediterranean, showing the first bomb exploding on the stern. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A bomb explodes by the side of an Italian motor vessel, under attack from Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs in the Mediterranean. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Bristol Beaufighters of the Mediterranean Air Command going in to attack a steamer while conducting a sweep of the Bay of Naples for enemy shipping. The vessel, which was probably carrying ammunition, blew up shortly afterwards. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Vertical aerial photograph taken during a daylight bombing attack on enemy positions on mountain slopes near Mount Etna, Sicily, by Douglas Bostons of the Tactical Bomber Force of the North West African Air Forces. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Bombs from Douglas Bostons of the Tactical Bomber Force of the North West African Air Forces explode along the main road at Randazzo, Sicily, during repeated attacks on enemy road convoys retreating toward Messina. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Martin Baltimore of theTactical Bomber Force of the North West African Air Forces, flys over its target by a road in Sicily, while bombing retreating German forces heading for Messina. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Low-level oblique aerial taken from a Bristol Beaufighter as it attacked a small cargo vessel and a naval patrol boat moored in the harbour at Fiskardho on the island of Cephalonia, Greece. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Enemy cargo vessels under attack by cannon fire from Bristol Beaufighters of No. 201 Group in the eastern Mediterranean. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Bristol Beaufighter releases its bombs towards the further of two German flak vessels attacked by aircraft of No. 201 Group, south of the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. The Italian liner REX, lying on her side and on fire in Capodistria Bay, south of Trieste, two days after the attack by Bristol Beaufighters of the Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force which capsized her. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Air Vice-Marshal W Elliott, Director of Plans at the Air Ministry, photographed at the Air Ministry Studios on the occasion of his appointment as Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Hawker Sea Hurricane Mark I of the Merchant Ship Fighting Unit is craned aboard a Catapult Armed Merchant (CAM) ship at Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Hawker Sea Hurricane Mark I of the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit being placed on the steam catapult of a Catapult Armed Merchant (CAM) ship at Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Operation DRAGOON: the Allied invasion of Southern France. The crash tender of No. 111 Squadron RAF lined up with the flying control 'tower' and vehicles at Sisteron, as aircraft of the squadron fly in from Ramatuelle. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Operation DRAGOON: the Allied invasion of southern France. Spitfire LF Mark IX, MH763 RN-S, of No, 72 Squadron RAF based at Calvi, Corsica, coming in to land at the newly-constructed landing ground at Ramatuelle in southern France, piloted by Flight Lieutenant the Prince Emanuel Galitzine. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Operation DRAGOON: the Allied invasion of southern France. Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIIIs and IXs of No. 43 Squadron RAF parked at dispersal points on Ramatuelle landing ground. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Operation DRAGOON: the Allied invasion of southern France. Mechanics servicing Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIII, MT714 'FT-F, of No. 43 Squadron RAF, at Ramatuelle landing ground. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Hawker Hurricane Mark I of No. 213 Squadron RAF based at Famagusta, banks away from the photographer's aircraft over the mountains of Cyprus. Note the undersurface paint scheme used - with considerable variation - to identify operational RAF fighters in the early years of the Second World War. In this case the aircraft's azure-blue undersurface has been augmented by painting the port wing matt black. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Hawker Hurricane Mark Is of No. 261 Squadron RAF at Luqa, Malta. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. The first pilot of a Short Sunderland of No. 230 Squadron RAF based at Aboukir, Egypt, takes the reading from a Mark VIII bubble sextant at the navigator's station in the aircraft. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. '100' Class High Speed Launch HSL 107 of the RAF Air/Sea Rescue Unit, Malta, returns to its base at Kalafrana following a rescue call in the Mediterranean. HSL 107 was the longest-serving of the launches operated by the Malta A/SR Unit and was credited with 86 live rescues to the end of 1944. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. The crew of High Speed Launch HSL 166 of the RAF Air/Sea Rescue Unit, Malta, on board their vessel at Kalafrana after rescuing the aircrew of an Egypt-based Vickers Wellington which had ditched in the Mediterranean. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Wing Commander J K Buchanan, Commanding Officer of No. 272 Squadron RAF, standing by one of his Squadron's Bristol Beaufighters at Luqa, Malta, shortly after being awarded the DSO. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, Air Officer Commanding, Mediterranean, talking to the crew of a Vickers Wellington operating from Malta, while visiting the bomb dump at Luqa. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, talking with pilots of No. 126 Squadron RAF outside their crew room at Luqa, during his visit to Malta. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff (third left), accompanied by the Air Officer Commanding RAF Malta, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park (second left), talking with pilots of the Luqa Fighter Wing, in front of a Supermarine Spitfire in a dispersal at Luqa, during his visit to the island. Fourth from the left stands Wing Commander J M Thompson, leader of the Luqa Wing. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Bren gun carrier of the Malta Garrison tows a trolley-load of 250-lb GP bombs to a Vickers Wellington in its dispersal at Luqa. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Wing Commander Adrian Warburton (centre), Commanding Officer of No. 69 Squadron RAF, standing with some of his aircrew at Luqa, Malta. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A Hawker Hurricane Mark II of No. 261 Squadron RAF, taxying at Ta Kali, Malta, following a sortie. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Busy scene by the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar. In the foreground various RAF marinecraft undergo maintenance. Parked behind them are shrouded Consollidated Catalinas of No. 202 Squadron RAF, while in front of the hangar, an engine service is undertaken on Short Sunderland Mark I, L5798 'KG-B', of No. 204 Squadron RAF based at Bathurst, The Gambia. Between 1941and 1944, this unit regularly escorted Allied convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Short Sunderland Mark I, L5798 'KG-B', of No. 204 Squadron RAF based at Bathurst, The Gambia, is relaunched down the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar following an engine service. Between 1941and 1944, this unit regularly escorted Allied convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Armourers, Leading Aircraftman R E Atkins of Ealing, London, (left) and Corporal F Wheeler of Orpington, Kent, arm a Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark X of No. 328 Wing RAF with 3-inch rocket projectiles at Alghero, Sardinia. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Watched by a group of schoolchildren, airmen of a Detachment of No. 982 Balloon Squadron RAF untether a Mark VI Kite Balloon from their tender, an adapted American Landing Craft Personnel (Ramped), before bringing in ashore at Ajaccio, Corsica. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar And the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Five Malta-based pilots sitting in front of two fighter aircraft at Luqa. Third and fourth from the left, respectively are, Wing Commander J K Buchanan, Commanding Officer of No. 272 Squadron RAF, and Wing Commander M M Stephens, leader of the Hal Far Fighter Wing, shortly before the end of his tour of operations. Behind them is Wing Commander P P Hanks' Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC, BR498 'PP-H', which he flew as leader of the Luqa Fighter Wing, parked in front of a Bristol Beaufighter of No. 272 Squadron RAF. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar Andthe Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Flight Lieutenant E G Price, Master of High Speed Launch HSL 107 of the Air/Sea Rescue Unit, Malta, sits on the conning seat in the wheelhouse as he steers the vessel out into the Mediterranean west of the island to rescue a downed pilot. Behind him is one of his crew, Leading Aircraftman S Ibister. The miniature lifebelts painted on the canvas in front indicate the number of successful pick-ups to date. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in Malta, Gibraltar Andthe Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Sergeant D Goodwin RCAF, a pilot of No. 229 Squadron RAF, about to be rescued by the crew of High Speed Launch HSL 107 of the Malta Air/Sea Rescue Unit, after being forced to ditch his Supermarine Spitfire in the Mediterranean, 30 miles west of the island. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945 Ground crew of No. 110 Squadron RAF service the starboard engine of a de Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI at Joari, India
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Operation TORCH: the RAF commences operations from Maison Blanche, Algeria, following its capture on the morning of 8 November 1943. In the foreground lie kit bags dumped by No. 3201 Servicing Commando, who marched eight miles to the airfield after disembarking at 'Charlie' Beach, and who can be seen re-arming and servicing the Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs of No. 322 Wing RAF which arrived in the afternoon. Note the discarded long-range 'slipper' fuel tanks used by the Spitfires in their flight from Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Operation TORCH: Squadron Leader R "Raz" Berry (third from left), the Commanding Officer of No. 81 Squadron RAF, with some of his pilots at Maison Blanche, Algeria, after flying in from Gibraltar to commence operations on the first day of the invasion. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Operation TORCH: a mobile Homer Station at work on the airfield at Bone, Algeria, during the arrival of Supermarine Spitfire reinforcement aircraft, ferried from Gibraltar. The vehicle is a Commer Q2, fitted with an RVT 105 Signals body, housing single-channel VHF/DF radio equipment from which homing bearings and controlled descents were transmitted to the ferry pilots. In the background, Spitfire Mark Vs can be seen, undergoing preparation for onward flights to the forward units. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Operation TORCH: men of No. 3203 Servicing Commando at work on Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB, EP286, which suffered undercarriage failure on landing at Bone, Algeria, after a reinforcement ferry flight from Gibraltar. EP286 was repaired, and served in North Africa and Italy with No. 1435 Flight and No.208 Squadron RAF. |
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Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Operation TORCH: Supermarine Spitfire Mark V reinforcement aircraft and a Hawker Hurricane (far left), prepare to taxi out from the flight line at Bone, Algeria, for delivery to forward units in North Africa, after being ferried from Gibraltar. |
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Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. Albemarle ST Mark I series 2, P1514, of 'C' Flight, No. 511 Squadron RAF, parked at Lyneham, Wiltshire. One of six Mark I aircraft modified to Lyneham Standard transport configuration and used by the Squadron on the UK-Gibraltar-Algiers route. |
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Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. A mixed service and civilian crew of No. 45 Group RAF leave their Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI on arriving at Celone, Italy, after a ferry flight from Canada. The aircraft were flown directly to the Italian theatre to equip the newly-formed No. 31 Squadron SAAF. Personnel are, (left to right): Flying Officer Doyle of Sydney, Australia, (observer); Pilot Officer T F Clarke of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, (second pilot); Mr A Latus of Preston, Lancashire, (radio operator); Mr D Cardiff of Los Angeles, USA, (captain and pilot); and Flight Sergeant D Hicks of St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, (flight engineer). |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Ground crew of No. 249 Squadron RAF take a break from maintaining their Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs at Ta Kali, Malta, to observe the activity on the airfield. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. RAF ground crew, assisted by a soldier and a sailor, refuel and rearm a Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC(T) of No. 603 Squadron RAF, in a revetment constructed from empty fuel tins filled with sand at Ta Kali, Malta. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Soldiers construct aircraft revetments at Ta Kali, Malta, using locally-quarried limestone blocks. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Three Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC(T)s (BR130 'T-D' nearest), of No. 249 Squadron RAF at readiness in their dispersal at Ta Kali, Malta. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. A section of three Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC(T)s of No. 249 Squadron RAF waits at readiness by the main runway at Ta Kali, Malta, as a Bristol Beaufighter comes in to land. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Bristol Beaufighter Mark IC, possibly from No. 235 Squadron RAF Detachment, preparing to taxy at Ta Kali, Malta. From mid-June 1942 the Detachment provided protection for anti-shipping strike aircraft operating from the island until they were absorbed by the newly-formed No. 227 Squadron RAF the following August. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Flight-Sergeant G F "Screwball" Beurling of No. 249 Squadron RAF, standing by a sandbag revetment at Ta Kali, Malta, with the rudder and unit emblem cut from a crash-landed Macchi MC.202 of 378ª Squadriglia/51º Stormo CT, Regia Aeronautica, one of four enemy aircraft which he shot down over Gozo on 27 July 1942. George Beurling joined the RAF in September 1940 and was posted to No. 41 Squadron RAF a year later. On 9 June 1942, he flew into Malta from HMS EAGLE and joined No. 249 Squadron RAF, with whom he became the top-scoring Allied fighter pilot on the island, achieving 26 victories between 12 June and 14 October 1942. He was sent home to Canada for publicity purposes in November 1942, but returned to the United Kingdom to join No. 61 Operational Training Unit as a flying instructor in July 1943. He transferred to the RCAF on 1 September 1943 and achieved the last of his 32 confirmed victories with Nos. 403 and 412 Squadrons before returning to Canada in April 1944 and retiring from the Air Force the following October. His eccentric, 'lone wolf' nature and an inability to succumb to authority, made him unpopular in the services and contributed to his restlessness after the war. He died in a flying accident, (sabotage was also suspected), on 20 May 1948, while ferrying an aircraft to Israel after having volunteered for service with the nascent Israeli Air Force. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. RAF fitters and Maltese civilian workers repairing damaged Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs in a maintenance shed at Ta Kali. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Pilots of 'B' Flight, No. 126 Squadron RAF snatch some refreshment between sorties, in their flight tent at Luqa, Malta. On the left is Pilot Officer F D Thomas of Harrow, Middlesex, and on the right, Flight-Sergeant C F Bush of Gravesend, Kent. |
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Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Supermarine Spitfire Mark VB(T), EP257, being operated by No. 126 Squadron RAF, taxies along the dusty perimeter track at Luqa, Malta, for a sortie. A member of the groundcrew runs alongside to warn the pilot of obstacles ahead. There was considerable interchange of aircraft between squadrons on Malta at this time, and EP257 shows evidence of hastily painted-out identification letters. |
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A Women's Royal Naval Service plotter at work in the Operations Room at Derby House in Liverpool, the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches, September 1944. The female plotter at work in the Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool. This is one of the scenes for an Anglo-American official film covering the battle of the Atlantic right up to D-Day, being shot by Army Film Unit cameramen at the headquarters of the Commander in Chief Western Approaches. |
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Christmas Preparations in the Royal Navy Home Fleet, September 1943 On the foc'sle of a battleship, in the shadow of the guns, a Royal Marine, J Lynch of Newport, Monmouthshire is putting the finishing touches to a large dolls house, complete with furniture. |
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HMS Anthony on An Anti-submarine Patrol, Off Gibraltar, 26 January 1944 Anti-submarine control officer (left) with three radio ratings listening through headphones to the ASDIC equipment on the compass platform aboard HMS ANTHONY. |
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HMS Sturdy Underway en route for Gibraltar, photograph taken from the deck of HMS FURIOUS |
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Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War Wartime Entertainers: The actress Beatrice Little, who worked ceaselessly to entertain the troops, being awarded an 'honorary' naval cap tally by a group of British sailors in Gibraltar. |
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Lieutenant Lionel 'Buster' Crabbe, in diving apparatus at Gibraltar, April 1944. A portrait of Lieutenant Lionel 'Buster' Crabbe, RNVR, Officer in Charge of the Underwater Working Party at Gibraltar. |
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Operation Pedestal, August 1942 12 August: Air Attacks: The cruiser HMS CHARYBDIS, part of Admiral Syfret's Force Z, leaving the convoy to return to Gibraltar. |
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Phyllis Stanley is playing to a naval audience during a show on the packed deck of HMS NELSON, 7 January 1943. Phyllis Stanley is playing to a naval audience during a show on the packed deck of HMS NELSON. Note the sailors sitting on one of the 16 inch guns in the foreground. |
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Staff officers discuss convoy movements in the Operations Room at HQ Western Approaches Command, Derby House, Liverpool, September 1944. Commander Cross, Staff Officer Convoys, (left) discussing a special convoy movement map with Captain Lake, RN, Duty Officer in the Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool. This is one of the scenes for an Anglo-American official film covering the battle of the Atlantic right up to D-Day, being shot by Army Film Unit cameramen at the headquarters of the Commander in Chief Western Approaches. |
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The Operations Room at Derby House in Liverpool, the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches, September 1944. In the operations room at Derby House, Liverpool, where up to the minute shipping positions are shown on a huge indicator, a Wren can be seen up a ladder making an alteration to an indicator on one of the large, wall mounted maps. This is one of the scenes for an Anglo-American official film covering the battle of the Atlantic right up to D-Day, being shot by Army Film Unit cameramen at the headquarters of the Commander in Chief Western Approaches. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS ARGONAUT approaching Gibraltar; "The Rock", during the transport of men to the North African coast. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The troopship PEGELBERG en route for Gibraltar as part of a huge convoy. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Lieutenant Commander A R E Coleman, RCNR, Commanding Officer of the Canadian Corvette HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC, looking through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of his ship at Gibraltar. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War General view aboard HMS NELSON on the occasion of the visit of the ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) show "Spring Party" whilst the ship was at Gibraltar. The deck and 16 inch gun turrets are crowded with sailors watching the show, the performers are out of sight. The show starred Beatrice Lillie, Leslie Henson and Vivien Leigh. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Rock of Gibraltar viewed between two Supermarine Seafire aircraft of No 885 Squadron Fleet Air Arm on board HMS FORMIDABLE. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A Supermarine Seafire of No 885 Squadron Fleet Air Arm just about to "land out" on the deck of HMS FORMIDABLE at Gibraltar. Three more Supermarine Seafires are ranged on outriggers on the side of the Flight Deck. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Left to right: Chief Engine Room Artificer R H Gornall, of Ashford Middlesex, Able Seaman A J Pearce, of Bromley, Kent, Leading Seaman E T Morse, of Ashford, Kent, and W Graham, of Glasgow all of HMS CRANE docked at Newport, Monmouthshire, after they had taken part in the successful Atlantic convoy action against U-Boats and glider bomb aircraft for four nights and three days. Two of the men are carrying out some painting work on the ship whilst the other two look on. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A naval Bristol Beaufighter returns from fleet co-operation work to HMS CORMORANT II, Royal Navy Air Station, Gibraltar. The pilot and fitter, who looks after the machine have a conference about the aircraft conditions. The rock of Gibraltar can be seen in the background. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Pilot and navigator pose with their Bristol Beaufighter at HMS CORMORANT II, Royal Navy Air Station, Gibraltar. The Rock can be seen in the background. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Leading Seaman J Jackson, from Salford, Manchester, and Leading Seaman K Rainey from Northwood, Middlesex, of HMS AFFLECK take a break to smoke a cigarette whilst the ship is docked at Gibraltar. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Depth charge party reloading a thrower on board HMS ANTHONY whilst she is docked in Gibraltar Harbour. They are lowering the depth charge into the ready placed expendable arbor. The thrower is a Mark II Depth Charge Thrower; the charge a Mark VII (Heavy). |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Women's Royal Naval Service: A Wren Cinema Operator from London projecting instructional films in the Naval cinema at Gibraltar. Wrens have been serving in Gibraltar since 1941, many of them working in the tunnel offices built inside the rock. With 1,000 feet of solid rock above them it is probably the safest air raid shelter in the world. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Women's Royal Naval Service: The recreation room at the WRNS quarters in Gibraltar. Wrens have been serving in Gibraltar since 1941, many of them working in the tunnel offices built inside the rock. With 1,000 feet of solid rock above them it is probably the safest air raid shelter in the world. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Women's Royal Naval Service: WRNS officers working on a chart in the Naval operations room in Gibraltar. Wrens have been serving in Gibraltar since 1941, many of them working in the tunnel offices built inside the rock. With 1,000 feet of solid rock above them it is probably the safest air raid shelter in the world. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Official Wartime Film Production: Army Film Unit cameramen filming a Wren marking a position on the chart in the Atlantic Battle Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool, for use in "The True Glory", January 1945. The location is genuine, though a later caption says The report on the board was an imaginary one. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The main plot in the operations room at Derby House, Liverpool showing restricted bombing areas. It was in this room that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned throughout the Second World War. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Home Plot in the operations room at Derby House, Liverpool, showing Irish Sea convoy movements. It was in this room that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned throughout the Second World War. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War High jump event in progress during a sports meeting on board HMS VENGEANCE during passage from Malta to Gibraltar. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Left to right: Lieutenant H O Forester, RNR, of Aylesbury, Bucks, and Lieutenant D W Halsam, RN, of Derby at work charting the findings of a survey on board HMS WHITE BEAR, a hydrographic survey vessel serving with the East Indies Fleet, at Colombo. She acts as headquarters for smaller vessels which penetrate small creeks and rivers to survey areas either uncharted or not charted for many years. The data obtained by these ships is then transformed into charts for allied shipping, with the help of a printing plant which makes HMS WHITE BEAR a floating advanced printing unit. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War "Convoy" is the ship's cat on board HMS HERMIONE and is asleep in his hammock whilst the ship is docked at Gibraltar. Several members of the ship's crew can be seen in the background. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Fairey Swordfish aircraft of 824 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm coming in to land on the deck of HMS ARGUS being batted down at Gibraltar. The batman is stood in the foreground with his arms out. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War A Fairey Swordfish of 824 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm about to land on the deck of HMS ARGUS is seen just about to carry the trip wire whilst the aircraft carrier is at Gibraltar. Another arrestor wire can be seen in the foreground. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War In the distance two Italian hospital ships lying in harbour at Gibraltar Bay. In the foreground is the 4 inch gun of HMS ARGUS as she watches over the ships. The Italian hospital ships were in Gibraltar to pick up Italian wounded being exchanged for British prisoners. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War Two gunners on board a Motor Launch going into action with their twin Lewis Guns as suspicious aircraft are spotted above the Mediterranean near Gibraltar. Note the depth charges along each side of the ML. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942 General view of part of the convoy en route for Gibraltar stretching across the horizon. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942 General view of the convoy en route for Gibraltar bathed in sunlight and stretching into the distance. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942 General view of the convoy en route for Gibraltar stretching into the distance. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War- Operation Torch, North Africa, November 1942 In the distance a general view of the convoy en route for Gibraltar stretching across the horizon. |
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The Western Approaches Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool, from where the Battle of the Atlantic was controlled, April 1945. In the Western Approaches Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool, the main plot is nearest the camera and in the background is the Home Plot and enemy submarine report board. Discs on the main plot are restricted bombing areas for aircraft of approximately 150 miles radius where submarines of Allied Navies are under passage. It was in this room that the Battle of the Atlantic was planned throughout the Second World War. |
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The Royal Navy during the Second World War The aircraft carrier HMS FORMIDABLE exercising with destroyers off Gibraltar, as seen from the battleship RODNEY. The Rock of Gibraltar is in the distance. |
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A 9.2-inch Mk X coastal gun on Mk V mounting, of Breakneck Battery on the Rock of Gibraltar, facing north. |
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1=Armstrong Whitworth AW.41 Albemarle ST Mark I series 2, P1475, of No. 511 Squadron RAF based at Lyneham, Wiltshire, in flight. One of six Mark I aircraft modified to ‘Lyneham Standard’ transport configuration and used by 'C' Flight of the Squadron on the UK-Gibraltar-Algiers route. |
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1="CHRISTMAS PARTY" ON THE ROCK: FAMOUS WEST END STARS PLAY FOR GIBRALTAR GARRISON. |
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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom. |
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1="Captain J. Fitzgerald with Kathleen, a 2 year old ape from French Morocco, on his shoulder. Captain Fitgerald is the Officer in charge of the younger apes, kept in a cage on the Upper Rock, which is a job he does in addition to his regular duties. The British Army authorities take an official interest in the welfare of the apes of Gibraltar, after the population was recently topped up at Winston Churchill's request. Legend has it that if Gibraltar's apes ever leave the rock it will cease to be a British colony." |
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IWM caption : Left to right: Chief Engine Room Artificer R H Gornall, of Ashford Middlesex, Able Seaman A J Pearce, of Bromley, Kent, Leading Seaman E T Morse, of Ashford, Kent, and W Graham, of Glasgow all of HMS CRANE docked at Newport, Monmouthshire, after they had taken part in the successful Atlantic convoy action against U-Boats and glider bomb aircraft for four nights and three days. Two of the men are carrying out some painting work on the ship whilst the other two look on. |
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British recruitment poster for the Derby Scheme. |
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British recruitment poster for the Derby Scheme. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.137. |
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1=HMS LARGS moored at Greenock. Formerly the CHARLES PLUMIER a French Armed Merchant Cruiser, captured by the destroyer HMS FAULKNOR on 22 November 1940, off Gibraltar. |
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1=HMS Furious and either HMS Courageous or HMS Glorious off Gibraltar |
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British recruitment poster for the Group System. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No.140. "The Prime Minister's pledge to married men is now being redeemed by Parliament. But let the young unmarried men themselves redeem that Pledge by joining under the Group System to-day. Do not force your country to force you to fight, but come of your own free will". |
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British recruitment poster for the Group System. |
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Douglas DC-3, BOAC, Gibraltar |
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Short S.30 Empire (G-AFCZ), BOAC, Gibraltar, 1941 |
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1=A portrait of Lieutenant Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, RNVR, Officer in Charge of the Underwater Working Party in Gibraltar. |
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File:Men of the Black Watch Regiment observing in Gibraltar, 1942.jpg |
1="Men of the Black Watch Regiment observing the scene below using a telescope from a vantage point on The Rock, 4 January 1942." |
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1="Captain Fitzgerald's assistant for looking after the apes is Gunner D R Carpenter of the Rose and Crown, Tottenham, who is well known on the Rock for his fondness for his ape charges. This image shows Gunner Carpenter checking a new arrival from Tangiers on the nominal role. The British Army authorities take an official interest in the welfare of the apes of Gibraltar, after the population was recently topped up at Winston Churchill's request. Legend has it that if Gibraltar's apes ever leave the rock it will cease to be a British colony." |
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British cruiser HMS Penelope in Gibraltar after escaping from Malta. Wooden plugs are visible in shell splinter holes in hull. |
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1=Princess Royal's Battery armed with a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, taken from the top of the Rock of Gibraltar. 17 November 1941. |
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1=Five Malta-based pilots sitting in front of two fighter aircraft at Luqa. Third and fourth from the left, respectively are, Wing Commander J.K. Buchanan, Commanding Officer of No. 272 Squadron RAF, and Wing Commander M.M. Stephens, leader of the Hal Far Fighter Wing, shortly before the end of his tour of operations. Behind them is Wing Commander P.P. Hanks' Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC, BR498 'PP-H', which he flew as leader of the Luqa Fighter Wing, parked in front of a Bristol Beaufighter of No. 272 Squadron RAF. |
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1=Royal Engineer tunnellers using a water pressure drill to clear solid rock while creating the maze of tunnels that can be found through the Rock of Gibraltar, 1 November 1941. |
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1="Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942." |
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German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. Men of the Notts. and Derby Regiment marching along the Amiens-St. Quentin Road, from Foucancourt, near Brie, Somme. |
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1="Short Sunderland Mark I, L5798 'KG-B', of No. 204 Squadron RAF based at Bathurst, The Gambia, is relaunched down the slipway at North Front, Gibraltar following an engine service. Between 1941and 1944, this unit regularly escorted Allied convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa." |
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1="Short Sunderland Mark I, L5798 'KG-B', of No. 204 Squadron RAF, based at Bathurst, The Gambia, moored beneath the North Face of the Rock at Gibraltar. Between 1941and 1944, this unit regularly escorted Allied convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa as well as mounting anti-submarine patrols over the South Atlantic." |
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1="Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs assembled by the Special Erection Party for Operation TORCH, undergoing initial engine tests at North Front, Gibraltar. The Special Erection Party was established at Gibraltar in July 1942 to assemble and test fly aircraft crated from Britain by sea for the reinforcement of Malta. On 28 October 1942 an unexpected shipment of 116 Spitfires and 13 Hawker Hurricanes arrived to be prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (Operation TORCH) and a further shipment was received a few days later. Despite shortages of personnel, the SEP, assisted by soldiers of the Malta Brigade, assembled, test-flew and cannon-tested all the aircraft in time for the commencement of the Operation (8 November)." |
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1="Supermarine Spitfire PR Mark IVs lined up at North Front, Gibraltar, while staging through as reinforcement aircraft for Malta and the Allied landings in North Africa, (Operation TORCH)." |
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Poster in the Welsh language for the Derby Scheme. |
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