462 Squadron RAAF aircrew Sept 1942
AWM caption : A Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber squadron, No. 462 Squadron RAAF, operating in the Middle East Command is manned by flying crews from all over the Empire. Left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) N. Dear... More
RAAF 462 Sqn crew with Me 110 of W Schnaufer 1945
Schleswig, Germany, 19 June 1945. Informal group portrait of a Handley-Page Halifax crew of No. 462 Squadron RAAF standing next to an Messerschmitt Me 110G-4 aircraft (G9+BA). Identified are, left to right: Fli... More
Sergeant Ryan 24 Squadron RAAF with waist gun Fenton NT 1944 AWM NWA06...
AWM caption : Fenton, NT. c. November 1945. Sergeant P. Ryan, of Melbourne, Vic, cleaning a waist gun of a Consolidated B24 Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 24 Squadron RAAF. Sergeant Ryan took part in a succes... More
617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR11...
617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Flight Lieutenant H S Wilson's crew. Left to right: Flight Sergeant J H Payne, gunner Pilot Officer T W Johnson, engineer Sergeant W E Hornby S... More
Consolidated Liberator - Digri - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far...
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. The crew of "Winnie" a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of No. 159 Squadron RAF based at Digri, India, salute the nose insignia on their aircraft. Sittin... More
Fairey Battle - Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1653
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. A sergeant air-gunner mans his .303 Vickers K-type gas-operated machine gun from the rear cockpit of a Fairey Battle of No. 103 Squadron RAF at St-Lucien Ferme near Rheges. ... More
Lockheed Hudson - Bircham - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945...
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7318, of No. 206 Squadron RAF which rescued the Commander in Chief of Free Polish Forces, General Władysław Sikorski and his st... More
Lockheed Hudson - Leuchars - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-194...
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The crew of a Lockheed Hudson of No. 224 Squadron RAF, prepare to board their aircraft at Leuchars, Fife. The wireless operator/air gunner (far right) is carrying hi... More
Lockheed Hudson - Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH339
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The wireless operator/air gunner of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I of No. 206 Squadron RAF based at Bircham Newton, Norfolk, signals with an Aldis lamp to four other aircra... More
Martin Baltimore - Royal Air Force- Italy, 1942-1945. CNA2599
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South East Europe, 1942-1945. The crew of a Martin Baltimore Mark IV of No. 223 Squadron RAF walk from their aircraft (FA394) at Celone, Italy, after successfully complet... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH14855
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Crew members of Lancaster PA995/BQ-V of No. 550 Squadron board their aircraft at North Killingholme for its 100th operation on 5 March 1945. Left to right are: Sergeant... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH2450
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command On board a No 240 Squadron Catalina at Stranraer, March 1941. A WOp/AG (wireless operator/air gunner) poses with his twin Vickers 'K' guns at the starboard blister hat... More
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH10678
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The air and ground crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark I, W4236 'QR-K', of 'A' Flight, No. 61 Squadron RAF, grouped by the nose of the aircraft at Syerston, Nottinghamshire,... More
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH12090
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Air gunners attend a refresher class in aircraft recognition conducted by a Gunnery Instructor, Pilot Officer V A Reed, using wooden models, at No. 7 Air Gunners Schoo... More
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH637
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Air gunners at their positions on board a Beaufort Mark I, L4461 'OA-J', of No. 22 Squadron RAF at North Coates, Lincolnshire. One gunner occupies the Bristol Mark I... More
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8078
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Flight-Sergeant Albert Jeffrey, a wireless operator/air gunner aboard a Consolidated Liberator GR Mark IIIA of No. 224 Squadron RAF based at Beaulieu, Hampshire, ste... More
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH8080
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Flight-Sergeant Ronald Johnson, a wireless operator/air gunner on board a Consolidated Liberator GR Mark IIIA of No. 224 Squadron RAF based at Beaulieu, Hampshire, m... More
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. The Commanding Officer of a squadron of No. 326 Wing RAF, followed by wireless operator/air gunner, alights from a Bristol Blenheim Mar... More
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL1523
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A petty-officer in the Royal Dutch Naval Air Service, serving as a wireless operator/air gunner with No. 320 (Dutch) Squadron RAF, checks over his .5 Browning... More
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. ...
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945. Personnel of No. 284 Squadron RAF, an air/sea rescue unit, standing in front of one of their aircraft, Supermarine Walrus, X9506 'C', at Cas... More
Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving w...
Sergeant Lincoln Orville Lynch DFM, a West Indian air gunner serving with No. 102 Squadron, by the rear turret of his Halifax at RAF Pocklington, February 1944. West Indians in the Royal Air Force: Sergeant Lin... More
Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in...
Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 1942. Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3676 'S', of 1651 Heavy Conversion Uni... More
The crew of the first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster X to arrive in Bri...
The crew of the first Canadian-built Avro Lancaster X to arrive in Britain, christened the 'Ruhr Express', photographed with their mascot at Northolt, Middlesex, on 15 September 1943. The crew of the first Cana... More
The Royal Air Force in North Africa E8292
The Royal Air Force in North Africa The gunner of a Blenheim bomber, F/Sgt J Mitchell, in his turret, 12 February 1942. This aircraft was used as personal transport by Lt Gen Neil Ritchie, GOC 8th Army, for vis... More
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A1867
The Royal Navy during the Second World War The crew; pilot, observer, and air gunner, report to the Commanding Officer on getting out of their Supermarine Walrus aircraft on board the aircraft carrier HMS ARGUS... More
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7540
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A bearded Fleet Air Arm gunner, Leading Airman C H Clark, from Tadworth, Surrey, exits his Fairey Albacore aircraft carrying his flying kit, after his aircraft returne... More
Training of Royal Air Force Aircrew in Rhodesia, 1943 CRH29
Training of Royal Air Force Aircrew in Rhodesia, 1943 Royal Air Force air gunners receive class-room instruction at an Air Training School in Southern Rhodesia. The instructor is Pilot Officer J Ward.
Vickers Wellington at Amendola - Royal Air Force - Italy, the Balkans ...
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1944-1945. A Boeing B-17 crew of the 5th Bombardment Wing, 15th USAAF, after returning to Amendola, Italy, from a daylight bombing mission over Sofia, ... More
Vickers Wellington at Chaklala - Royal Air Force Operations in the Far...
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. The crew of Vickers Wellington Mark X, HZ950, of No. 99 Squadron RAF, gather by the tail turret of their aircraft at Chaklala, India, after returning from ... More
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Vc, Dso and Bar, Dfc and Bar, Commander of ...
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, Vc, Dso and Bar, Dfc and Bar, Commander of 617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Wing Commander Guy Gibson with members of his crew. Left to right: Wing Co... More
Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D1...
Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 Third Officer Ingledew, WRNS, gives a lecture on aircraft recognition to gunners of the Station Defence. She uses an epidiascope to project p... More
Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 D1...
Women's Royal Naval Service- With the Fleet Air Arm, Scotland, 1943 Third Officer Ingledew, WRNS, encourages gunners of the Station Defence to draw various aircraft types from memory as part of her daily hour-l... More
Air Force personnel & equipment. The Pacific, England, Wash. DC. 1942-...
Scope and content: B-29 Men bombed Tokyo. The crew of "Waddy's Wagon", fifth B-29 to take off on the initial Tokyo mission from Saipan, and first to land after bombing the target. Crew members, posing here to ... More
Action station (AWM ARTV04986)
AWM Caption: This is a British poster depicting a rear-gunner in a Lancaster bomber. A second aircraft is seen flying at left. Added to the slogan 'Savings is everybody's war job' are the words 'Post Office Sav... More
Betty tail gunner. Japanese empire during World War Two.
G4M1 Betty tail gun station view Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
150 Squadron Wellington crew Tunisia WWII IWM CNA 1271
The crew of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 150 Squadron RAF receive a final briefing from their flight commander before taking off from Kairouan, Tunisia, for a raid on targets in the Salerno area on the d... More
466 Squadron Wellington crew RAF Leconfield 1943 IWM CH 11173
The first all Australian crew in Bomber Command to complete a tour of operations (with No 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force) stand in front of their Vickers Wellington bomber at RAF Leconfield, Yorkshir... More
550 Squadron Lancaster and crew IWM CH 17852
IWM caption : The crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark III, ED905 'BQ-F' "Press on regardless", of No. 550 Squadron RAF, pose on their aircraft after it had completed 70 operational sorties, at RAF North Killingholme... More
A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1...
A No. 57 Squadron Lancaster mid-upper gunner in his turret, February 1943. A No 57 Squadron mid-upper gunner, Sergeant 'Dusty' Miller, 'scans the sky for enemy aircraft' from a Lancaster's Fraser Nash FN50 tur... More
Blenheim gunner Greece 1940 CM 285
IWM caption : A wireless operator/air gunner mans his Vickers K gun in the turret of an RAF Bristol Blenheim Mk I at Menidi/Tatoi, Greece.
Whitley tail gunner WWII IWM C 924
IWM caption : An air gunner sits at the ready in the Nash and Thompson Type FN4 rear turret of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No.102 Squadron RAF at Driffield, Yorkshire.
Whitworth tail gunner in turret WWII IWM C 913
The Nash and Thompson Type FN4 rear turret of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V of No.102 Squadron RAF at RAF Driffield, Yorkshire, UK.