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• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

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

  Captured Messerschmitt Bf 110D "The Belle of Berlin" in British markings on a landing ground in North Africa. This aircraft served with II/ZG76 in Iraq and was captured after crash-landing near Mosul in May 1941. It was used as a communications aircraft...

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

  part of "LIVOCK (GROUP CAPTAIN)" (photographs)

  Short Sunderland Mark I, L2164 'DQ-M', of No. 228 Squadron RAF, on fire in St Paul's Bay, Malta after being shot up for a second time by Messerschmitt Bf 109s of 7/JG26. L2164, already damaged from the previous attack on 7 March 1941, ultimately sank...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945.

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

  Messerschmitt Bf 110C-5, AX772, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in flight. Originally '5F-CM' of 4(F)/14, this aircraft was intercepted by RAF fighters while on a reconnaissance mission on the morning of 21...

• THE BATTLE FOR CRETE, 20 - 31 MAY 1941

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Invasion: A German troop-carrying aircraft (JU-52) shot down by anti aircraft gunfire near Heraklion, Crete on 20 May 1941. Smoke and flames pour from the German plane as it loses altitude. On that morning 3000 German paratroops landed at Maleme,...

• THE BATTLE FOR CRETE, 20 - 31 MAY 1941

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Invasion: The bombing of Heraklion aerodrome in Crete by the Luftwaffe. The British officers in Crete had showed more concern about the possibility of a sea invasion. This meant that a fundamental weakness of the British defence was the complete lack of...

• THE BATTLE FOR CRETE, 20 - 31 MAY 1941

  part of "CUNNINGHAM (ADMIRAL)" (photographs) Made by: German official photographer

  Invasion: Photograph taken by a German airman recording the sinking of HMS GLOUCESTER off Crete, 22 May 1941.

• THE BATTLE FOR CRETE, 20 - 31 MAY 1941

  part of "CUNNINGHAM (ADMIRAL)" (photographs) Made by: German official photographer

  Invasion: Photograph taken by a German airman recording the sinking of HMS GLOUCESTER off the coast of Crete, 22 May 1941.

• THE BATTLE FOR CRETE, 20 - 31 MAY 1941

  part of "CUNNINGHAM (ADMIRAL)" (photographs) Made by: German official photographer

  Invasion: Photograph taken by a German airman recording the sinking of HMS GLOUCESTER off the coast of Crete, 22 May 1941.

• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

  Fire crews cover an Avro Lancaster of Bomber Command with foam in an effort to save it from burning, at B58/Melsbroek, Belgium, following the attack on the airfield by Luftwaffe fighter-bombers, (Operation BODENPLATTE).