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Men of the 6th Airlanding Brigade Hamminkeln, Germany for Operation Varsity with what looks like a Mk II & Mk V Sten guns suppressors (silencers) attached.
#OpVarsity #AFPU
Men of the 12th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment filmed flying to the village of Hamminkeln, Germany, during Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945.
Film: IWM A70 278-5
The big picture: Bert Hardy’s portrait of striking Chinese seamen in 1940s Liverpool #AFPU
Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace is at the Photographers’ Gallery, London W1, 23 February-2 June
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Workers at an Indian railway workshop constructing armoured vehicles, 1942.
© IWM IND 517, photographer from No.9 AFPS #AFPU
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Lean gunners man a 4.5-inch anti-aircraft gun of 66th (Leeds Rifles) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, at one of the main supply airstrips on the Ledo road, 24 July 1944.
© IWM SE 2911, Sgt Wackett #AFPU
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Meanwhile, the British Army entertains the local children. Both scenes filmed at Deurne, the Netherlands, 27 December 1944.
Selections from © IWM A70 222-2, Sgt Jones #AFPU.
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Anticipation and perspiration on his face, Sgt. Getwood from Ayrshire mans his Bren gun during the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division's advance on Tilburg, 27 October 1944.
© IWM B 11396, Sgt Laing #AFPU
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Churchill tanks and Humber armoured cars in Rijkevorsel, Belgium, 22 October 1944. Modern Google Earth screenshot for comparison.
© IWM B 11114, Sgt Crocker #AFPU
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Screenshot © Google Earth 2023
A wooden grave marker lies alongside a jeep destroyed during Operation Market Garden in 1944. The Dutch 'Engelse Soldaten' on the cross suggests more than one person is buried there. Photographed near Arnhem, 18 April 1945.
© IWM BU 4132, Sgt Hewitt #AFPU
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Men of the 1st Royal Fusiliers operate a captured German Marder III self-propelled gun, with a RAF-style roundel painted on the side, Italy, 30 December 1943.
© IWM NA 10439, Sgt Hewitt #AFPU
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Paratroops of 6th Airborne Division put on camouflage in good spirits at R.A.F. Harwell on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944.
© IWM H 39066, Capt. Malindine #AFPU
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An AFPU sergeant, revolver in one hand and De Vry camera under the other arm, watches over three young German prisoners in the Venraij/Venray area, the Netherlands, 17 October 1944.
© IWM BU 1229, Sgt Norris #AFPU
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Royal Engineers move cautiously through a cornfield near St Contest during the advance to Caen, Normandy, 9 July 1944.
📷© IWM B 6756, Capt Malindine #AFPU
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A Churchill and a Sherman dozer of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade demolish road blocks in Dülmen, Germany, 30 March 1945.
Selection from © IWM A70 286-2, Sgt George Laws #AFPU
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Sgt George Laws of the Army Film and Photographic Unit destroys what appears to be a dummy anti-aircraft weapon at Wunstorf airport, Germany, 8 April 1945.
Selection © IWM A70 293-3, Sgt Leeson #AFPU
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Monty and Patton (a keen amateur photographer) discuss a Minox subminiature camera, 25 July 1943.
Selection from © IWM AYY 511/3/1, Capt. Black #AFPU
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An ambulance drives whilst under shell fire, Western Desert, 3 November 1942.
Selection from © IWM AYY 275/2-8, Sgt Wolfe #AFPU
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