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• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Crouch F W (Mr)

  Mr W P Hildred, Director of Civil Aviation, at his desk in Adastral House, London.

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

  Portrait of Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air.

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

  Head and shoulders portrait of Air Marshal R S Sorley, Controller of Research and Development, Ministry of Aircraft Production; photographed at the Air Ministry in London.

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

  Group Captain F C V "Daddy" Laws, Deputy Director of Photography. Photograph taken at the Air Ministry Studios, London.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN MALTA, GIBRALTAR AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940-1945.

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

  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.

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

  Half-length portrait of Air Vice Marshal N H Bottomley, Assistantant Chief of the Air Staff (Operations), taken in London.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE COASTAL COMMAND, 1939-1945.

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

  Publicity shot purporting to show the captain of a Boeing Fortress Mark II of Coastal Command holding a final conference with his crew before taking off. The photograph was taken at Lagens, Azores, in front of a Fortress Mark II, FL462 'W' of No. 220...

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Crouch F W (Flt Lt)

  The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London. They are, (left to right); Sir Harold Howitt (Additional Member), Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Courtney (Air Member for Supply and Organisation), Air Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton (Air Member for...

• THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

  Tipper trucks removing earth from the site of the new main runway at Heathrow, Middlesex. Although originally developed as an airfield for RAF Transport Command on the site of the Great West (or Harmondsworth) aerodrome, Heathrow was selected as the...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: HQ Coastal Command

  A Sunderland and its Spitfire escort passing the Eddystone Lighthouse, 14 miles south of Plymouth, June/July 1944.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: HQ Coastal Command

  Mosquito VI HX918 was delivered to the A&AEE at Boscombe Down in November 1943 for rocket-projectile (RP) tests.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Miller (F/O) 1944-02-26

  Wing Commander R. T. F. Gates (far left), CO of No 53 Squadron, chats to the 10-man crew of Liberator Mk V ' H for Harry', about to set off on an anti-submarine patrol from St Eval, 26 February 1944. Note the Boulton Paul rear turret, fitted to most...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: HQ Coastal Command

  Wellington XIV HF385 of No 612 Squadron, under tow at Chivernor, April 1944. The WAAF tractor driver is 20-year-old LACW Felicity Lambert.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

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

  Fitters working on the 1,200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engines of a No 224 Squadron Liberator at St Eval, 26 February 1944.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

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

  A view of Sunderland Mk III ML839 of No 10 Squadron RAAF, experimentally fitted with Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasps, May 1944. The engines proved a success, and were subsequently fitted to all Sunderland Mk Vs. ASV aerials are clearly visible, but later Mk...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: COASTAL COMMAND

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: HQ Coastal Command

  The only crew in Coastal Command to sink two U-boats in one sortie was that of Flying Officer Kenneth Owen Moore, a Canadian serving with No 224 Squadron. 'Kayo' Moore, seen here on the right with his bomb aimer Warrant Officer Johnston 'Jock' McDowell,...

• ROCKETS AND MISSILES

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

  A Supermarine Spitfire flying alongside a V-1 flying bomb in an attempt to disrupt the airflow over its wing and force it to crash, August 1944.

• V1 FLYING BOMB

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Devon Stanley

  An excellent low aerial oblique view showing adjacent V1 bomb damage sites in Lewisham, London. Lewisham Road is the main thoroughfare in the centre of the picture. The flying bomb sites shown are Granville Park (June 1944), Lewisham Hill (top right,...

• V1 FLYING BOMB

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

  Seen in silhouette, a Supermarine Spitfire manoeuvres alongside a flying bomb in an attempt to deflect it from its target.

• AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION

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

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