RAF Squadron No 71 pilots run to their Hawker Hurricane planes; Kirton in Lindsey, air base England; 17 March, 1941. These American volunteer  pilots are members of the RAF's first "Eagle" squadron.
 

In RAF service

British troops landing at Arromanches, codenamed Gold Beach, June 16th 1944. Behind them is the Mulberry Harbour that helped to ensure enough supplies made it off the beaches and to the troops at the front.

British troops on French soil

Soldiers of the British 8th Army in a battle in the commune of San Clemente east of San Marino during the offensive on the Adriatic side of Italy; September, 1944.