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• THE ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Lockheed Venturas of No 4 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, prepare for a sortie at their base in the Solomon Islands.

• OPERATION PEDESTAL, AUGUST 1942

  part of "HEWLETT F S (MR)" (photographs)

  13 August: Air Attacks: The merchant ship WAIMARAMA explodes after being bombed.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: FIGHTER COMMAND, 1939-1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Parnall, C H (Lt)

  Flight Lieutenant D R Turley-George (left) and the Flying Officer C Fenwick (spare pilot) of the Merchant Ship Fighter Unit, in front of their Hawker Sea Hurricane on board the SS EMPIRE TIDE at Hvalfjord, Iceland.

• KAMIKAZE

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

  Attacks on shipping: View of the port side of HMAS AUSTRALIA showing the damage caused by a Japanese suicide aircraft.

• KAMIKAZE

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

  Attacks on shipping: The remains of the engine and propellor of the Japanese suicide aircraft which struck the deck of HMAS AUSTRALIA.

• THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beadell, S J (Lt)

  View of the torpedo attack trainer at Arbroath Fleet Air Arm Station, also known as HMS CONDOR. Directly in front of the plane in which the trainee is seated, is the ship projected onto the screen.

• KAMIKAZE

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

  Attacks on Shipping: Inspecting damage to the bridge of HMS ILLUSTRIOUS caused by a Japanese 'Judy' single engine dive bomber on 6 April 1945. The plane passed just in front of the bridge about 9 feet from where the Commanding Officer, Captain C E Lambe...

• THE LOSS OF HMS PRINCE OF WALES AND REPULSE 10 DECEMBER 1941

  part of "FUKUI SHIZUO (LT CDR)" (photographs) Made by: Japanese official photographer

  Japanese Forces: Japanese cruiser CHOKAI whose seaplane sighted the British ships, HMS PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE, on 9 December 1941. The next morning they were attacked by Japanese aircraft and both were sunk off the coast of Malaya. The majority of...

• AIR RAIDS ON BERLIN, 1940

  part of "GROSS DEUTSCHLAND IM WELTGESCHEHEN: TAGESBILDBERICHTE [HEINRICH HOFFMANN]" (photographs) Made by: Heinrich Hoffmann

  German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels inspects bomb damage in Berlin following RAF raids on the city in August 1940.

• 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...