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• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  The corporal in charge of a maintenance crew directs a Handley-Page Halifax Mark II of No. 1656 Heavy Conversion Unit to its dispersal point at Lindholme, Yorkshire, while other crew members stand ready with chock-blocks.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Armourers attach carriers to two 1,000-lb GP bombs before manoeuvring the bomb trolley under a Short Stirling Mark I of No. 218 Squadron RAF at Downham Market, Norfolk. Note the hoist cables hanging from the bomb-bay winches, and the trolley-accumulator...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: BOMBER COMMAND

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR CENSORSHIP BUREAU LIBRARY OF PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Halifax III of No 78 Squadron comes in to land at Breighton, passing the airfield control trailer, after the first daylight raid on Essen, 25 October 1944.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  A sergeant armourer checks the fuze of a 1,000-lb GP bomb before it is winched by hand into the bomb bay of a Short Stirling of No. 218 Squadron RAF at Downham Market, Norfolk.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Armourers loading 1,000-lb GP bombs into a Short Stirling of No. 218 Squadron RAF at Downham Market, Norfolk, prior to an operation. Note the use of the hand winch to hoist the ordnance into the bomb bay.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off)

  Wrecked workshops of the Siemens-Schuckert Werke electrical factory at Nuremberg, which was attacked a number of times by Bomber Command.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off)

  An RAF officer walks through the ruins of the Sebalder Altstadt in Nuremberg, destroyed during a number of area attacks by Bomber Command between 1942 and 1944. The Kaiserburg and castle can be seen in the background, and the ruined twin towers of the...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off)

  The severely damaged tank shop in the MAN engineering works at Nuremberg, which was attacked by Bomber Command a number of times.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

  The Siemens factory at Siemensstadt, Berlin, badly damaged as a result of raids by aircraft of Bomber Command.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945.

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

  A wrecked machine shop where telescopes and torpedoes were made, at the Krupp-Grusonwerk AG in Magdeburg, Germany. Magdeburg was subjected to a heavy area attack by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 16/17 January 1945, when 44 per cent of the...