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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.
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.
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.
Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, HMAC Glengorm
Photographs, In Storage, P020966
Rolls-Royce Armoured Car "HMAC Glengorm", photographed in Iraq.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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