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• LANCASTER 'G - GEORGE' FLIES TO AUSTRALIA, 1944

  part of "AUSTRALIAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian Official

  Flying Officers C H Tindale DFM (wireless operator) and W C Gordon DFC (navigator) in Lancaster W4783/AR-G, 'G for George' of No 460 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Prestwick, 11 October 1944. The veteran aircraft, which had completed 90...

• THE WAR EFFORT IN AUSTRALIA, OCTOBER 1942

  part of "AUSTRALIAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian official photographer

  A production line of Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers at an Australian aircraft factory.

• THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST GERMANY 1939-1945

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

  A De Havilland Mosquito of No 487 Squadron, RNZAF (Royal New Zealand Air Force), from RAF Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, photographed in February 1944 carrying a 500lb bomb beneath each wing. One of its most important roles in bomber command was to deliver onto...

• AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE, 1939-1945: PIPER CUB.

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

  Piper Cub Coupe, DG667, of No. 651 (AOP) Squadron RAF, is secured with pickets by ground crew at Larkhill, Wiltshire. This aircraft was formerly G-AFXS on the civil register, and was impressed for service in February 1941.

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: TAYLORCRAFT AUSTER.

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

  Taylorcraft Plus C/2, HH982, of No. 651 (AOP) Squadron RAF, about to depart on a training flight from Old Sarum, Hampshire. Formerly a civilian machine (registration G-AFVA), impressed in August 1941, HH982, went on to serve with Nos. 653 and 654 (AOP...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Laing (Sgt)

  British troops inspecting abandoned German Gotha Go 145, and a solitary Arado Ar 96, training aircraft at Celle airport, 13 April 1945.

• War Weapons Week, Paisley : December 1940

  (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander 1940-12-01

  image: A view looking down on Barshaw Park hung with buntings. Crowds of civilians are gathered to look at a display of artillery, tanks and a captured German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft.

• THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION/BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICE, WASHINGTON DC" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Handley Page Hampden Mark I, AT137 'UB-T', of No 455 Squadron RAAF based at Leuchars, Fife, Scotland, in flight above clouds, May 1942.

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION/BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICE, WASHINGTON DC" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Lockheed Hudson Mark V, AM853 'OY-K', of No 48 Squadron RAF based at Wick, Caithness, Scotland, in flight along the coast, early 1942. (Port threequarter view from slightly above).

• De-icing Aircraft

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1942

  image: ground crew clear snow and ice off a DH Dragon Rapide standing on a runway. The tail of a second plane is in the foreground.