British Air Power in View

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight: Avro Lancaster, Hawker Hurricane (in front of the Lancaster), and six variants of the Supermarine Spitfire.

 Bristol Beaufighter of No. 144 Squadron RAF.

 Bristol Beaufighter PL-T of No. 144 Squadron RAF.

 Bristol Beaufighter PL-Q (right) of No. 144 Squadron RAF.

 Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark Xs of the Dallachy Strike Wing lined up at Dallachy, Morayshire. Both early- and late-production TF Xs can be seen in this photograph, Royal Air Force, 144 Squadron.

 Armorers load RP3s rocket projectiles onto the wing rails of a No. 144 Squadron Bristol Beaufighter TF.X at Dallachy. Boasting a 60lb semi armor-piercing high-explosive warhead, this gave rise to the alternative name of the ‘60-pound rocket’.

 Bristol Beaufighters, Dallachy Wing, Langham, May 5, 1945.

 No. 403 (Fighter) Squadron members in their dispersal hut at RAF Kenley, England, March 21, 1943.

 British Royal Enfield "Flying Flea" with a Universal Carrier and a Hamilcar glider.

 British Royal Enfield "Flying Flea" with a Jeep and trailers and a Horsa glider.

 Fortress Mark IIA FK197 outside the Scottish Aviation workshops at Prestwick, Ayrshire, where it was being fitted with special wireless equipment. This aircraft eventually served as a GR Mark IIA with No. 251 Squadron RAF, which undertook meteorological reconnaissance flights from Reykjavik, Iceland in late 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.

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.

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.

Baltimore Mark I AG697 flying past Kasfareet during an air test, following assembly at No. 107 Maintenance Unit. AG697 served with the Strategic Reconnaissance Unit in North Africa, and was then transferred to No. 69 Squadron RAF in Malta, with whom it was lost while conducting an air-sea rescue search on 25 August 1942.

Lieut (A) D M Jeram, RN, Martlet fighter pilot of 888 Squadron, who shot down two French aircraft in the initial North African Offensive, returning from the sortie.

Grumman Martlet of 882 Squadron, NAAS.

Leading Aircraftman R. Stuart of Birkenhead retrieves tools from a flooded equipment chest following heavy rain at Celone, Italy. In the background can be seen Handley Page Halifax Mark IIs of No. 614 Squadron, RAF, and Republic P-47 Thunderbolts of the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, parked on the airfield.

Operation MARKET I: the airborne operation to seize bridges between Arnhem and Eindhoven, Holland, (part of Operation MARKET GARDEN). Oblique photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing Douglas Dakotas dropping paratroops of 1st Airborne Brigade on to Dropping Zone (DZ) 'X', at Renkum, west of Arnhem. Some Horsa gliders have already landed.