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  • BOMB DAMAGE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, APRIL 1945 BOMB DAMAGE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, APRIL 1945

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Devon S D (Flt Lt)

    Aerial view from the north-west of the damage resulting from a V2 rocket missile which exploded in Mackenzie Road, Islington, London N7, England on the evening of 26 December 1944. Clearance work is still in progress on the site at which sixty-eight...

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

    King George VI, with Wing Commander Guy Gibson (right) , talking to Flight Lieutenant D J H Maltby, during his visit to No 617 Squadron RAF at Scampton, Lincolnshire, following the Dams raid in Germany. Maltby and his crew delivered the Squadron's final...

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

    King George VI, accompanied by Wing Commander Guy Gibson (right), talking to Pilot Officer L G Knight RAAF, during his visit to No. 617 Squadron RAF at Scampton, Lincolnshire, following the Dams raid. Knight and his crew launched the 'Upkeep' weapon...

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

    Half-length portrait of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, while Commanding Officer of No 617 Squadron RAF, wearing flying kit.

  • THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES

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

    Portrait of Wing Commander Guy P Gibson.

  • OPERATION CHASTISE (THE DAMBUSTERS' RAID) 16 - 17 MAY 1943 OPERATION CHASTISE (THE DAMBUSTERS' RAID) 16 - 17 MAY 1943

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

    Personalities: Wing Commander Gibson and his crew board their Avro Lancaster A3-G (ED 932/G) for the Dams' raid. Left to right: Flight Lieutenant R D Trevor-Roper DEM; Sergeant J Pulford; Flight Sergeant G A Deering RCAF; Pilot Officer F M Spafford DFM...

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: BOMBER COMMAND ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: BOMBER COMMAND

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

    Crews of No 106 Squadron photographed in front of a Lancaster at Syerston, Nottinghamshire, on the morning after the raids on Genoa, 22-23 October 1942. Fourth from the right is Pilot Officer David Shannon, a future 'Dambuster' and leading light of No...

  • DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN, AUGUST 1945 DROPPING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN, AUGUST 1945

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

    Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC RAF, the British observer for the dropping of the second atom bomb on Nagasaki 9 August 1945 and the former commander of No 617 Squadron (Dambusters), Royal Air Force.

  • OPERATION CHASTISE (THE DAMBUSTERS' RAID) 16 - 17 MAY 1943 OPERATION CHASTISE (THE DAMBUSTERS' RAID) 16 - 17 MAY 1943

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

    The Targets: A (vertical) reconnaissance photo of the town of Kassel, some 30 miles downstream of the Eder Dam. Large areas of water lie adjacent to the River Fulda which bisects the town.

  • AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: CONSOLIDATED MODEL 28 CATALINA. AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: CONSOLIDATED MODEL 28 CATALINA.

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

    Catalina Mark IB FP244/G-AGFM ‘2’ "Altair Star", operated by QANTAS, flying along the coast of Ceylon at the conclusion of a long-haul flight from Australia.

  • BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945. BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION AND QANTAS, 1940-1945.

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

    Consolidated Catalina Mark IB, JX577 '4' "Antares Star", operated by QANTAS, taxies to moorings after touching down at Koggala, Ceylon.

  • THE 303 POLISH FIGHTER SQUADRON IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN THE 303 POLISH FIGHTER SQUADRON IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Devon S A (Mr) 1940-10

    A group of pilots of No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron RAF walking toward the camera from a Hawker Hurricane after, purportedly, returning from a fighter sortie. Left to right, in the front row are; Pilot Officer Mirosław Ferić, Flight Lieutenant John A...

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT INTERWAR PERIOD ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT INTERWAR PERIOD

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION"

    Spitfire PR Mk.11, chassis EN654, in flight.

  • ROYAL AIR FORCE: THE AIR TRAINING CORPS, 1941-1945. ROYAL AIR FORCE: THE AIR TRAINING CORPS, 1941-1945.

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

    Air Commodore J A Chamier, Commandant of the Air Training Corps, at his desk at Adastral House, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session in the Council Chamber at Adastral House, London. Left to right: Air Vice-Marshal A G R Garrod; Sir Harold G Howitt (Additional Member); Air Marshal Sir Christopher L Courtney (Air Member for Supply & Organisation); Air...

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London: Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid R Freeman, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    Captain H H Balfour MP, Under Secretary of State for Air, sitting at his desk at the Air Ministry, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London: (left to right); Captain H H Balfour, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Air and Vice President of the Air Council, Rt Hon Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air and President of...

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London: Rt Hon Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air & President of the Air Council (left), and Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles F A Portal, Chief of the Air Staff.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles F A Portal, Chief of the Air Staff (left), and Sir Arthur Street, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Air.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    Air Marshal A G R Garrod, Member of Air Council for Training, at his desk at Adastral House, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. 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 Sir Douglas Evill, Vice Chief of the Air Staff. Photograph taken at the Air Ministry Studios, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council in session at Adastral House, London: Sir Harold Hewitt, an additional member, shares a lighter moment with the Air Member for Personnel, Air Marshal Sir Philip Babington, during a break in the Council's proceedings.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

    part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Goodchild A (Flt Lt)

    View of the interior of the Wireless Cabin of the Central Forecasting Station at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, showing WAAF and RAF radio operators recording meteorological reports from aircraft and ships.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    The Air Council assembled in the foyer of Adastral House, London, on the occasion of a visit by Field Marshal Smuts. Left to right, (seated): Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Coastal Command; Lord...

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

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

    Air Marshal J T Babington, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Technical Training Command, at his desk at the Air Ministry, London

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    Air Commodore W A Coryton, when Deputy Director of Operations (Overseas), at his desk at Adastral House, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    Air Vice Marshal C E H Medhurst, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) seated at his desk at Adastral House, London. He became Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Policy), then Acting Vice-Chief of the Air Staff between October 1942 and March...

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

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

    Air Marshal Sir William L Welsh, Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Flying Training Command, at his desk at the Air Ministry, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. 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 Sir Richard Peck, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff. Photograph taken in the Air Ministry studios, London.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945.

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

    Air Vice-Marshal P Babington, Director of Postings, at his desk shortly before being appointed Air Member for Personnel on the Air Council. He became the Air Officer Commander-in-Chief of Flying Training Command in August 1942.

  • THE AIR MINISTRY, 1939-1945. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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