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• ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Wing Commander J R H Merifield (pilot) and Flight Lieutenant J H Spires (navigator) in De Havilland Mosquito PR Mark 34, RG241 'K', of No. 540 Squadron RAF, taxy to the main runway at St Mawgan, Cornwall, before taking off on the fastest recorded east to...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A section of three Hawker Hurricane Mark Is of No 257 Squadron RAF fly over the airfield at Coltishall, Norfolk, as another aircraft of the Squadron,V7607 'DT-H', is prepared for take-off.

• AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: DOUGLAS SKYMASTER.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Skymaster Mark I, KL990, the aircraft of the Commanding Officer of No. 232 Squadron RAF, at Prestwick airport, Ayrshire, prior to departing on a trans-Atlantic flight.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Penfold (P/O)

  Gloster Meteor Mark IIIs (EE354 'XL-H' nearest) of No, 1335 (Meteor) Conversion Unit taxy to dispersal after a demonstration flight for the Brazilian Air Minister and his party at Molesworth, Huntingdonshire.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: FIGHTER COMMAND, NO. 38 (AIRBORNE FORCES) GROUP RAF.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Goodchild A (F/O)

  Airspeed Horsa gliders stored and awaiting disposal at Netheravon, Wiltshire.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING TRAINING COMMAND, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Free French trainee pilots prepare for take-off in Miles Master Mark Is at the Franco-Belgian Air Training School, Odiham, Hampshire.

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: BRISTOL TYPE TYPE 149 BLENHEIM IV.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Daventry B J (Mr)

  Blenheim Mark IV, R3612 ‘BL-V’, of No. 40 Squadron RAF based at Wyton, Huntingdonshire, in flight. R3612 previously served with the Photographic Development Unit. It was lost with its entire crew on 8/9 September 1940 during a night raid on invasion...

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: AVRO 679 MANCHESTER.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Daventry B J (Fg Off)

  An air gunner, in the Nash and Thompson FN4A tail turret of an Avro Manchester Mark I of No. 207 Squadron RAF, trains his four .303 Browning machine guns on the photographer at Waddington, Lincolnshire.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMAND, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Trainees receiving instruction on flight rigging at No. 5 School of Technical Training, Blackpool, Lancashire.

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: PERCIVAL Q.6 PETREL.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Daventry B J (Mr)

  Q.6 “Petrel”, P5634, of the RAF Northolt Station Flight, parked alongside Bristol Blenheims at Wyton, Huntingdonshire.