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
617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 TR11...
617 Squadron (dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943 Flight Lieutenant Dave Shannon, pilot of ED929/`AJ-L' on the dams raid, with Flight Lieutenant R D Trevor-Roper, who flew as Gibson's rear gunne... More
An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of...
An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. An air-gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun... More
Cecil Beaton Photographs- General; Royal Air Force D4736
Cecil Beaton Photographs- General The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.
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
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. ...
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. The crew of Lancaster ED285/`AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy clo... 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
RAF Fighter Command 1940 HU104495
RAF Fighter Command 1940 An air gunner climbs into a Boulton Paul Defiant of No. 264 Squadron, July 1940.
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH12209
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Lancaster skipper, Flying Officer T Blackham of No. 50 Squadron, keeps a firm hold on the crew's lucky mascot, as he is helped into his flying jacket by his flight engi... 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- Bomber Command CH573
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Trainee Polish air gunners receive instruction on a Vickers (VGO) K machine gun at a bombing and gunnery school. These were some of the Polish airmen who had escaped to... 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, 1939-1941. C496
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1941. Aircrew a No. 77 Squadron RAF Detachment at Villeneuve/Vertus, France, prepare to board Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V, N1357 'KN-H', for a leaflet-dropping ("Nick... More
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1941-1945. CH11640
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1941-1945. Crew members of a Short Stirling B Mark III of No. 622 Squadron RAF face their intelligence debrief at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berl... 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. CH413
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The two side-gunners in a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, mount watch from their positions by the open dorsal hatches mid-way along the fuselage, dur... 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. CH807
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. The rear fuselage interior of a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 210 Squadron RAF, showing the tail gunner leaving his turret and making his way forward.
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 Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CH810
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Two gunners in Short Sunderland Mark I, N9027, of No. 210 Squadron RAF based at Oban, Argyll, sit at their positions with .303 Vickers K-type machine guns, mounted in... More
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH1585
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. A pilot, (Flying Officer L G H Kells; left), and gunner of No. 29 Squadron RAF climb on board their Bristol Blenheim Mark IF for a night sortie from Coleby Grange/Wel... More
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. CH868
Royal Air Force Fighter Command, 1939-1945. Pilots and gunners of No 264 Squadron RAF, pass the time with a game of draughts while waiting at readiness outside their dispersal tent at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
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- 1939-1945- Coastal Command CH1081
Royal Air Force- 1939-1945- Coastal Command A Dutch air gunner in the turret of an Anson of No 320 Squadron at Carew Cheriton, near Pembroke Dock, in August 1940.
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 a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debr...
The crew of a Short Stirling bomber of No. 622 Squadron RAF being debriefed by the intelligence officer at Mildenhall, Suffolk, after returning from the major raid on Berlin of 22/23 November 1943. The crew of ... More
The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon a...
The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943. Sergeant J B Mallett, Sergeant H H Turkentine and Sergeant R ... 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 rear gunner of a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron peeks out through a ...
The rear gunner of a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron peeks out through a cut-out in the perspex of his gun turret, October 1942. A gunner, believed to be Sergeant J Bell, looks through the opening in the perspex o... 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 A24262
The Royal Navy during the Second World War Interrogation of Grumman Avenger bomber crews of 832 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm on board HMS ILLUSTRIOUS. Left to right: Petty Officer R O Begley, Tail Gunner, from Dulwi... More
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3843
The Royal Navy during the Second World War The air gunner of a Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber at his position on the rear-facing .303 inch Vickers machine gun. This Fairey Swordfish was one from HMS ARK ROYAL.
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
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A9008
The Royal Navy during the Second World War Air gunners of a Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish squadron passing a line of Supermarine Walrus sea-planes at HMS SPARROWHAWK, Royal Naval Air Station Hatston, Orkney Islands.
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.
Unidentified airship RAE-O946 during World War I
Aircraft and Balloons Used by Some of the Air Pioneers Who Were Contemporary With Samuel Franklin Cody. An unidentified airship on the ground. Note the gunners on the front of the airship and on top of it.
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
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
Aircrew walking beneath tnose oaShort Stirling
Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3676 'S', of 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire while the ground crew run up the engines. The pilot (2nd fro... More
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. ...
Flight Lieutenant Joe McCarthy (fourth from left) and his crew of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at RAF Scampton, 22 July 1943. The crew of Lancaster ED285/`AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy cl... More
The crew of Lancaster AJ-T sitting on the grass, posed under stormy cl...
Picture series: 617 Squadron (Dambusters) at Scampton, Lincolnshire, 22 July 1943. Object description: The crew of Lancaster ED285/'AJ-T' sitting on the grass, posed under stormy clouds. Left to right: Sergean... More
Boulton Paul Type A gun turret
An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. An air-gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gu... More
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.
Boulton Paul Defiant gun turret WWII IWM CH 879
An air gunner in the turret of a Boulton Paul Defiant Mark I of No. 264 Squadron RAF, trains his four .303 Browning machine-guns skywards at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
IWM CH2526 - A couple of men sitting in the cockpit of a plane
Flight Sergeant E. R. Thorn (pilot, left) and Sergeant F. J. Barker (air gunner) pose with their Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, after destroying their 13th Axis aircraft. Note th... More
Lancaster tail gunner IWM CH 12776
IWM caption : Flight -Sergeant J Morgan, the rear gunner of an Avro Lancaster of No. 630 Squadron RAF at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, checks his guns in the Nash & Thompson FN120 tail turret before taking off on... More
R.E.8 Gunner - A black and white photo of a man in a plane
Observer/gunner's cockpit in a typical WWI two seater aircraft - showing stencilled "Centre of Gravity" loading warning
RAF gunners with Balkan Air Force Italy WWII IWM CM 6978
RAF air gunners attached to 13th Squadron, Royal Hellenic Air Force, prepare for a sortie at Pescara, Italy, where the Squadron operated as part of No. 254 Wing RAF, Balkan Air Force, in missions over northern... More
RAF gunners with Martin Baltimore Italy WWII IWM CM 6922
IWM caption : RAF air gunners attached to 13th Squadron, Royal Hellenic Air Force, stand in front of Martin Baltimore Mark V, FW852 'Y', at Pescara, Italy, where the Squadron operated as part of No. 254 Wing R... More
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH12282
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Veteran air gunner Flt Lt J A Howard DFC in the rear turret of a No 619 Squadron Lancaster, 14 February 1944.
Royal Aircraft Factory FE2d gunner
Español: Ametralladoras Lewis montadas en un avión británico F.E.2d Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vickers K cockpit, Imperial War Museum
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. Note the unofficial flight and squadr... More
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.