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Group photograph of 603 Squadron posing with a Bristol Beaufighter, April 1944

Photographs, In Storage, P020406

No. 603 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, a reserve component of the RAF comprised of civilians designed to reinforce the RAF. They were one of 20 squadrons incorporated into the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Formal squadron portrait with personnel posing on an aircraft, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset

Photograph of De Havilland Mosquito NF.30 (MM813 FK-H) of 219 Squadron, Lubeck, about 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P019171

The RAF occupied the former Luftwaffe airfield at Lubeck at the end of the Second World War. It was used to concentrate captured German aircraft, both those already captured and those brought in after the German surrender.

Side view of Mosquito aircraft on a grass landing strip, Out of copyright

Ground crew at work on a Supermarine Spitfire XIVE aboard HMS Vindex, Iwakuni, Japan, September 1946

Photographs, In Storage, P019205

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the RAF provided aircraft and personnel to the British Commonwealth Occupation Force for Japan.

Top view of ground crew working on a Spitfire aircraft, Crown

Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, HMAC Glengorm

Photographs, In Storage, P020966

Rolls-Royce Armoured Car "HMAC Glengorm", photographed in Iraq.

Armoured Car in Iraq, stationary on sand, with boards under starboard rear wheel, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset / RAF Museum

English Electric Canberra PR.3 (WE173) of the Metrological Research Flight (RAE), 1975

Photographs, In Storage, P019782

English Electric Canberra PR.3 (WE173) of the Metrological Research Flight (Royal Aircraft Establishment), 1975

English Electric Canberra front port side view in flight, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset / RAF Museum

Magnetic mine being loaded into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Hampden Mk I

Photographs, P021820

Minelaying operations, typically referred to as Gardening sorties, represented a considerable part of the RAF's activities throughout the Second World War. The first RAF airborne minelaying operation was completed by a Handley Page Hampden.

Cylindrical mine, on wheeled trolley, being loaded into open bomb bay under an aircraft., Crown

Control tower, RAF Stanley, 1982

Photographs, In Storage, P015208

In the aftermath of the Falklands War of 1982, Britain moved to secure the peace and garrison the islands. Part of that process saw a permanent detachment of aircraft being posted to the Islands, who required a base to operate from.

A sign for RAF Stanley airbase is added to the airfield control tower, © Crown

Ground Operational Exercise (GROPE) by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1756

Leslie Cole’s painting represents a ground operational exercise or 'GROPE' – a form of synthetic training for air crew which, to test concentration, simulated the demanding navigational conditions of a bombing raid.

Ground Operational Exercise, oil on canvas, by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas,1943, Crown copyright: expired.

Excavating Tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1834

After selling numerous Home Front pictures to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, Cole was appointed an Official War Artist. For his first commission in 1943 he recorded the German Siege of Malta in its last months.

Excavating a tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum

Allied troops watching Japanese delegation being escorted to surrender negotiations, Mingaladon, 26 August 1945

Photographs, In Storage, P032507

Allied troops watching Japanese delegation being escorted to surrender negotiations, Mingaladon, 26 August 1945

Allied troops watching Japanese delegation being escorted to surrender negotiations, Mingaladon, 26 August 1945 | P032507, Please contact Museum Copyright Officer or Collection Curator before using this asset

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