Air Force Collection (page 9)

When the Germans retreated in Yugoslavia, they destroyed t all railways, locomotives and machines capable of helping in the reconstruction of the country

Operating from a landing strip carved by RAF airmen and Yugoslav Partisans with picks and shovels out of vineyards among the rocky hill of a

Rockets from South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force streaking towards German gun positions non Lussin Island in the Adriatic Sea of the Northern Dalmatian group of Yugoslavia

South African Air Force rocket firing Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, supported by the Yugoslav army in carrying out attacks on rail targets on the main supply

South African Air Force Beaufighters of the Balkan Air Force, supported by the Yugoslav army in carrying out attacks on rail targets on the main supply

US Flying Fortresses of the Eighth Air Force bomb a German aluminium plant in Heroya, Norway. 24th July 1943

A Shorts Stirling takes off from RAF Lakenheath for a mining laying operation off the Dutch coast Circa May 1941

Women flight mechanics are working for the R. A. F. in Flying training Command
Women flight mechanics are working for the R.A.F. in Flying training Command. Each aircraft is inspected every 24 hours and thoroughly overhauled after it has flown a stipulated time

Decorated New Zealand Bomber Squadron. This Wellington bomber squadron has made many raids over Germany and occupied territory. Picture taken 24th May 1941

RAF and USaF Give Germans 24 hour bomb service in Italy during the Second World War. RAF Wellington bombers and USaF Flying Fortresses operating from the same airfields in Italy are bombing the same

The Aero-Medical Laboratory, Wright Field Drayton, Ohio, United States. Pictured, wearing oxygen masks and cold weather flying gear these men are shown in the cold weather chamber

Battle of the Bay of Biscay naval action as part of the Atlantic Campaign during the Second World War. RCAF aircraft of Coastal Command

Administration buildings, hangers and revetments are covered by bomb bursts during a recent successful raid by Flying Fortresses on Athena Eleuala airfield in Greece. 2nd November 1943

Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers of the 8th Air Force attack industrial targets on the south west edge of Berlin. Circa March 1944

The usual cook of the Catholic Womens League canteen in Bicester, Oxfordshire, fell ill just after Christmas and Lady Norah Viscountess Torrington rolled up her sleeves

Six hundred Polish women have arrived in this country after having escaped from Poland to join the WaF. The Womens Auxiliary Air Force

The success of the 14th. Army on the Arakan front in Burma owes a great deal to the remarkable feat of a South-East Asia Troops Carrier Command which supplied a whole division by air for 11 days

Pilot of a Soviet Red Army Ambulance plane, Senior Lieutenant Polina Sedova. November 1941

Press visit to Army co-operation squadron equipped with American Mustang Fighters. The Squad. leader said that the old method of a pilot flying a slow plane

The Soviet Aerodrome in the mountain passes of the Caucasus mountains on the Volga Front in Russia during the Second World War where the stubborn resistance of the Red Army has brought the German

RAF Malcolm club in Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. Picture shows: The first WaF Gangshow arrived in Normandy recently

South African rocket-firing Beaufighters of the Balkan Air force recently attacked a German occupied barracks at Tirana, Albania. It is since reported that the capital has been liberated

A flight of B24 Liberators swoops in low over the Dutch countryside to drop supplies to the parachutists waiting below. The ground is dotted with collapsed chutes

People of Catania, Sicily scramble for food given out by men of the Royal Air Force.In the background is the tunnel entrance where civilians took cover during fighting for control of the town

The biggest ever Combined Operations daylight raid on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, northern France, during the Second World War

A destroyed Heinkel III bomber of the German Luftwaffe lies in a clover field in a small town in the South West of England during the Second World War

Pilots and crew of the Royal Air Force which attacked the German cruiser Lutzow off the Norwegian Coast, pictured posing on the wing of a Bristol Beaufort after returning to their home station in

FAF pilots study maps and charts before taking a flight in an Avro Anson for their training lesson at a station in England during the Second World War. 3rd October 1939

Picture shows a new Bristol Hercules Engine being transported by Mr D Robinson, aged 29. A former silk weaver. Picture taken 27th November 1941

General view showing a German supply airfield in use at Cyrenaica, Libya during the Second World War. 7th December 1942

Picture shows cadets of the Wakefield 127 Squadron ATC giving landing instructions to Corporal Don Nicholson in the cockpit of their home made aeroplane. Picture taken 16th February 1944

A fragment cut from an enemy aircraft which the RAF squadron shot down is used for recording the number of enemy aircraft destroyed. October 1941

The strong man of the RAF. 15th February 1940 (Original Caption). An up to date " Atlas" is serving with an RAF bomber squadron in France

Fairey Battle crews of 12 Squadron seen here living close to their machines, on a snow covered airfield at Amifontaine, France. 10th January 1940

Fighter pilots of 73 Squadron RAF warm their hands on a brazier in their underground Duty Office at Rouvres, whilst awaiting orders

Bomber crews receiving instructions in their squadron flight office, some where in France, The Scots Terrier held by the airman on the left is the stations mascot. 5th January 1940

Fairey Battles of 226 Squadron seen here being serviced in the fields closed to Faux-Villecerf, France Circa 16th May 1940

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force seen here bombing a German airfield in Northern France. The wing commanders aircraft can be seen making a low pass of the airfield during the attack to observe

Air Force One taking off from Heathrow Airport, at the end of President Eisenhowers state visit to the United Kingdom. 2nd September 1959

President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seen here disembarking from a US Army helicopter, the precursor to Marine One on to the apron of Heathrow Airport

Co-operation between the British and French Air forces in France during the Second World War. Some of the aerodromes in France are shared by the two Forces

No 151 Wing Royal Air Force was a British unit which fought alongside the Soviet forces on the Kola Peninsula during the first months of Operation Barbarossa during World War II

Gloster Javelins of No. 25 Squadron line up on the apron at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire in 1959

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force and French Air Force dip their wings in salute as they fly over the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge during the dedication ceremony

A Bristol Sycamore HR14 Search and Rescue helicopter seen here being refuelled at RAF Leconfield while supplies for the snow bound villages of North Humberside are loaded aboard. 5th February 1958

A Bristol Sycamore HR13 Helicopter delivers a special guest to RAF Linton 18th December 1953

RAF ground crew member T Walton seen here checks the winch on a RAF Bristol Sycamore HR13 helicopter after landing. 11th November 1957

Navigator Steve Cawthorne of 202 Search and Rescue Squadron checks over the oxygen, which automatically adjusts its supply to meet the needs of the patient as they are airlifted to hospital

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