A medical officer conducts an eye test during medical examinations of ...
A medical officer conducts an eye test during medical examinations of aircrew candidates in London, May 1940. Medical tests for aircrew candidates in London. A medical officer conducts a convergence test on a ... More
A Mite for Right Art.IWMPST16419
A Mite for Right whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, held within a circular inset. A smaller image is placed in the upper right. The title is separate and located in the upper quarter, i... More
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945-handley Page Hp.50 Heyford. ...
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945-handley Page Hp.50 Heyford. Heyford Mark III towing a General Aircraft Hotspur glider during a demonstration by airborne troops near Camberley, Surrey. This aircraft i... More
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service, 1939-1945- Fairchild 91....
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service, 1939-1945- Fairchild 91. Fairchild 91, HK832 'M' of the Sea Rescue Flight, on an airfield in Egypt. This single-engined amphibian, formerly NC16690 on the US civil... More
An RAF sergeant shares an alfresco lunch with two Dutch women at Nieul...
An RAF sergeant shares an alfresco lunch with two Dutch women at Nieuland, near Middelburg, soon after the town had been liberated by Allied forces, November 1944. An R.A.F. sergeant shares an alfresco lunch wi... More
Back Them Up Art.IWMPST8562 (cropped)
Back Them Up whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in blue, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an air battle against a... More
Back Them Up Art.IWMPST8562
Back Them Up whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in blue, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an air battle against a... More
Back Them Up! Art.IWMPST15028 (cropped)
Back Them Up! whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a ... More
Back Them Up! Art.IWMPST15028
Back Them Up! whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a ... More
Be an Airman Art.IWMPST14628
Be an Airman whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is partially integrated and positioned along the top edge, in green. The text is separate and placed along the bottom edge, in black. All set again... More
Both Together Art.IWMPST13978
Both Together whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow black border. The title and text are separate and placed along the bottom edge, in black. Further text is integrated and positioned in ... More
Civilian Maintenance Reserve Art.IWMPST14627
Civilian Maintenance Reserve whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned in the upper half, in red. The text is integrated and placed in the upper quarter and across the centre... More
Civilians row an RAF reconnaissance officer back to his unit after car...
Civilians row an RAF reconnaissance officer back to his unit after carrying out an inspection of Middelburg in Holland, November 1944. An Officer returns to his R.A.F. reconnaissance squadron by ferry after car... More
Come on. Skilled fitters! Your experience will earn you the finest job...
Come on. Skilled fitters! Your experience will earn you the finest job ever: and with it - security, good prospects, a grand outdoor life whole: the image is positioned in the upper image, with a smaller image ... More
Flight Lieutenant A R Costello of No. 112 Squadron standing by his Cur...
Flight Lieutenant A R Costello of No. 112 Squadron standing by his Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk I at Sidi Heneish, Egypt, April 1942. Flight Lieutenant A R Costello of No. 112 Squadron RAF standing by the nose of his C... More
General Charles de Gaulle inspects RAF personnel, March 1942. CH5119
General Charles de Gaulle inspects RAF personnel, March 1942. General Charles de Gaulle inspects RAF personnel, March 1942.
He's Wanted Here and Now Art.IWMPST14629
He's Wanted Here and Now whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the upper third, in white, held within a blue inset. image: a half-length photograph of a mem... More
If You're Being De-reserved Remember the RAF Needs Pilots Art.IWMPST14...
If You're Being De-reserved Remember the RAF Needs Pilots whole: the image occupies the whole. The title is integrated and located in the upper two-thirds, in red. The text is integrated and placed along the bo... More
Interrogation of Air Crews After Their Return From Berlin CH11924
Interrogation of Air Crews After Their Return From Berlin Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Into Action Art.IWMPST14801 (cropped)
Into Action whole: a large image is occupies in the upper three-quarters. Text is placed separately below, in black against an off- yellow background. image: five RAF Bristol Beaufighter aircraft attacking a Ge... More
Into Action Art.IWMPST14801
Into Action whole: a large image is occupies in the upper three-quarters. Text is placed separately below, in black against an off- yellow background. image: five RAF Bristol Beaufighter aircraft attacking a Ge... More
Into Action Art.IWMPST14882
Into Action whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters. The title and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a yellow background. image: a depiction of a RA... More
Join an Air Crew- in the RAF Art.IWMPST14630
Join an Air Crew- in the RAF whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned across the top edge, in white, and in the lower quarter, in blue. The main text is integrated and place... More
Join the RAF Art.IWMPST14635
Join the RAF whole: the image is positioned in the upper half, with a smaller image located in the lower centre. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the lower third, in black. The text is separa... More
Join the RAF Art.IWMPST14642
Join the RAF whole: the image is positioned in the upper half, with a smaller image located in the lower centre. The title and text are partially integrated and positioned in the lower half, in black. The upper... More
Libya - Help Them Finish the Job Art.IWMPST14981
Libya - Help Them Finish the Job whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an... More
Mightier Yet! Art.IWMPST14798, World War II photo
Mightier Yet! whole: a centrally positioned photographic image, with the title is placed above in large blue type. Further text is located below the image, white against a blue background. image: a monochrome p... More
Mosquito Bulletin Art.IWMPST14232
Mosquito Bulletin whole: the image is positioned in the upper half, with a smaller image placed in the lower centre. The title and text are partially integrated and placed along the top edge and in the lower ha... More
MosquitoPRmarkIX, Imperial War Museum
de Havilland Mosquito PR Mark IX (serial number ML897) of 1409 (Meteorological) Flight RAF photographed in November 1944. Part of the Air Ministry Second World War official collection.
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force CH7519
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force At the Aircrew Reception Centre of Royal Air Force Flying Training Command at St John's Wood, London, new recruits are inspected by non-commissioned of... More
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force CH7522
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force Recruits from the Aircrew Reception Centre of Royal Air Force Flying Training Command at St John's Wood, parade on a London street.
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force CH7523
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force At the Aircrew Reception Centre of Royal Air Force Flying Training Command at St John's Wood, London, new recruits take a Morse Code test. Here they tr... More
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force CH7524
New Recruits For Service As Aircrew in the Royal Air Force Recruits from the Aircrew Reception Centre of Royal Air Force Flying Training Command at St John's Wood, practice drill on a London street.
RAF Bomber Command 1940 HU104650
RAF Bomber Command 1940 Bomber crews attend a briefing by the squadron commander, 15 December 1940.
RAF Pinpoint Bombing Wrecks Key Railway Centres in France C4221
RAF Pinpoint Bombing Wrecks Key Railway Centres in France Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command CH2851
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Fighter Command A pilot demonstrates the new 'K'-type one-man dinghy in the unlikely surroundings of Watford Public Baths, 19 May 1941.
Royal Air Force Cadets in South Africa, September 1943 TR1206
Royal Air Force Cadets in South Africa, September 1943 RAF cadets watching a Zulu war dance at Rose Deep Mine, Johannesburg.
Royal Air Force Cadets in South Africa, September 1943 TR1208
Royal Air Force Cadets in South Africa, September 1943 Zulu war dance at Rose Deep Mine, Johannesburg.
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. CS354
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939-1945. Snowed-up technical huts and airfield at Reykjavik, Iceland, during a lull in the blizzard which hit the island between 21 and 27 February 1945. Consolidated Liberat... More
Royal Air Force Educational and Vocational Training Scheme D23101
Royal Air Force Educational and Vocational Training Scheme Members of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) are given a lecture as part of a course in joinery, one of the many options... More
Royal Air Force Film Production Units, 1941-1945. CH13069
Royal Air Force Film Production Units, 1941-1945. A cameraman of the RAFFPU poses, focussing a Bell & Howell Eyemo 35mm film camera with a telephoto lens.
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. CF263
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. Pilots of 'A' Flight, No. 42 Squadron RAF study target maps in a clearing at Onbauk, Burma, before an operation in support of 14th Army. Personnel featured... More
Royal Air Force Training Command, 1939-1941. C378
Royal Air Force Training Command, 1939-1941. A Link trainer, modified to represent a training aircraft, in use by a pupil pilot, who is steering the trainer on headings transmitted to him by the sergeant instru... More
Royal Air Force- France 1939-1940. C87
Royal Air Force- France 1939-1940. Hanging out the washing in a Royal Air Force rest billet in France.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940 C202
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940 Airmen enjoying lunch in a Royal Air Force mess in France.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C119
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. A photographer removes developed aerial reconnaissance film (taken by an F.24 aerial camera) from a developing tank in a Mobile Darkrooms tender at the Headquarters of No. 71... More
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C120
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. The film magazine from an F.24 aerial camera is handed over to a sergeant photographer for processing at a Mobile Darkrooms at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAF, Bétheniville.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C121
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. A photographer makes contact prints from exposures on aerial camera film in a Mobile Darkrooms tender at the Headquarters of No. 71 Wing RAF, Bétheniville.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1457
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Senior NCOs relax in the bar of the Sergeants' Mess on an airfield in France.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1493
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Junkers Jumo 211 radial engines salvaged from a the wreckage of a Junkers Ju 88 shot down over France, are removed from the crash scene by low-loader for further examination.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C1742
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Airmen crowd the deck of a steam packet during the evacuation of British forces from Brest, (Operation ARIEL).
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C264
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Airmen of the Advanced Air Striking Force enjoy glasses of beer at a bar set up in their temporary quarters in France.
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. C840
Royal Air Force- France, 1939-1940. Pilots of No. 607 Squadron RAF relax outside their crew room at Vitry-en-Artois. Those identified include Pilot Officer P L Parrott (first left), Flying Officer W F Blackad... 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. Interior of the Photographic Office of the RAF Public Relations (Oversea) Unit at Allied Forces Headquarters at Caserta, Italy, where person... More
Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean,...
Royal Air Force- Operations in Malta, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, 1940-1945. Ground crew refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC(T) from a petrol tin at Ta Kali, Malta.
Supermarine Walrus crews of 'C' Flight, No. 624 Squadron RAF, confer p...
Supermarine Walrus crews of 'C' Flight, No. 624 Squadron RAF, confer prior to a mine-reconnaissance flight from Leghorn, Italy, 1945. Supermarine Walrus crews of 'C' Flight, No. 624 Squadron RAF, in conferenc... More
The Royal Air Force Covers the World Art.IWMPST14641
The Royal Air Force Covers the World whole: the image is positioned in the centre. The title and text are separate and placed in the upper quarter and lower third, in grey, in red and in white. All set against ... More
The Royal Air Force in Britain, 1941 TR134
The Royal Air Force in Britain, 1941 Royal Air Force bomber crew plotting a course on a map before a raid.
The Royal Air Force in the Azores, January 1944 TR1494
The Royal Air Force in the Azores, January 1944 The camp barber at work.
The Royal Air Force in the Azores, January 1944 TR1495
The Royal Air Force in the Azores, January 1944 An air observer shaving in camp.
The Royal Air Force in the North African Desert, April 1943 TR819
The Royal Air Force in the North African Desert, April 1943 A Royal Air Force Intelligence Officer sounds an improvised gong to call air crews for briefing on an airfield in the North West African desert.
To Amateurs of Wireless Who Would Like to Fly Art.IWMPST14623
To Amateurs of Wireless Who Would Like to Fly whole: the image is positioned in the upper centre. The title is separate and located in the upper third, in white. The text is separate and placed in the lower two... More
Volunteer for Air Crew Duties Art.IWMPST14646
Volunteer for Air Crew Duties whole: the image occupies the whole. The title and text are integrated and placed in the upper two-thirds, in black, in blue and in red, set against a white background. image: a de... More
Volunteer for Flying Duties Art.IWMPST3774
Volunteer for Flying Duties whole: the image occupies the majority, with the title integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in red and in black. The text is integrated and located in the lower left, also... More
Volunteer for the Regular Air Force Art.IWMPST14640
Volunteer for the Regular Air Force whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned in the lower quarter, in white and in red. The text is integrated and placed across the top edge... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 Air Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt chats to the new West Indian recruits he is inspecting at a former holiday camp somewhe... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 New recruits to the Royal Air Force, recently arrived from the West Indies, take part in a Physical Training demonstra... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 Air Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt takes the salute during a ceremonial march past of new Royal Air Force recruits at an R... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 Colonel Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, chats to one of the new Royal Air Force recruits recently... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 Colonel Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, chats to one of the new Royal Air Force recruits recently... More
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 New recruits to the Royal Air Force, recently arrived from the West Indies, give a Physical Training demonstration to ... More
West Indian volunteers join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join Raf in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 Colonel Oliver Stanley, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt and others look on as two new Royal Air Force recruits demonstr... More
West Indian volunteers join RAF in Britain- Training and Inspection, E...
West Indian Volunteers Join Raf in Britain- Training and Inspection, England, UK, July 1944 New recruits to the Royal Air Force, recently arrived from the West Indies, take part in a march past at an RAF statio... More
You and the RAF Can Smash Germany Art.IWMPST14293
You and the RAF Can Smash Germany whole: the image is positioned in the upper half. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in white, and held within a red panel. The text is integrated and p... More
Mechanics work on the engines of a Lancasterbomber, Bottesford '42
A view from the cockpit of an Avro Lancaster, believed to be an aircraft of No 207 Squadron, Royal Air Force, as work is done on the starboard Merlin engines of the aircraft, near the technical site at Bottesford.
Prop spinner on a Spit V
Flight Lieutenant Laurie of No 222 Squadron, Royal Air Force warming up Supermarine Spitfire Mark V, BM202 'ZD-H' "Flying Scotsman", at North Weald, Essex. This aircraft was the second bearing this name to be ... More
Short Stirling bomber N6101
Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into a Short Stirling bomber (s/n N6101) of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. N6101 was one of the... More
Spit IX engine overhaul
A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX of No 64 Squadron, Royal Air Force undergoing an engine overhaul just outside a blister hangar on the north side of Fairlop airfield in Essex. The aircraft had been pushed outsid... More
Spitfire ground crew refuelling
Royal Air Force ground crewmen refuelling a Supermarine Spitfire Mark II at an Operational Training Unit.
Spitfire pilot ready in cockpit
Flight Lieutenant Laurie of No 222 Squadron, Royal Air Force in the cockpit of Supermarine Spitfire Mark V, BM202 'ZD-H' "Flying Scotsman", at North Weald, Essex. The aircraft was the second bearing this name t... More
Spitfire still spitting the fire ;)
Flight Lieutenant Laurie of No 222 Squadron, Royal Air Force starting up Supermarine Spitfire Mark V, BM202 'ZD-H' "Flying Scotsman", at North Weald, Essex. The aircraft was the second bearing this name to be ... More
Spitfire VI No 124 Sqn at North Weald c1942
A Supermarine Spitfire Mark VI, BR579 'ON-H', of No. 124 Squadron RAF, parked in a dispersal at North Weald, Essex (UK).
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
Dannevirke's Phil Lamason
Phil Lamason in the pilot seat's of the cockpit of a Sterling Bomber in 1942
Bristol Blenheim landing in Greece, 1941
A Bristol Blenheim about to touch down on a rough landing ground in Greece, 1941
Dwi wellington front - Egypt
A close-up view of a Vickers Wellington DWI (Directional Wireless Installation) on the ground at Ismailia, Egypt, showing the electromagnetic ring used to explode magnetic mines. (Original IWM caption: Close-u... More
Dwi wellington side - Egypt
A Vickers Wellington DWI (Directional Wireless Installation) on the ground at Ismailia, Egypt, showing the electromagnetic ring used to explode magnetic mines. (Original IWM caption: Wellington DWI Mark II, HX... More
Dwi wellington tripoli - A black and white photo of a plane flying ove...
An RAF Vickers Wellington DWI (Directional Wireless Installation) mine-clearing aircraft flies over the harbour at Tripoli, 23 January 1943. (Original IWM caption: A Vickers Wellington DWI (Directional Wirele... More
Lancaster bomb aimer 1943 CH 8789
IWM caption : Sergeant H H Turkentine, the bomb aimer on board an Avro Lancaster B Mark I of No. 57 Squadron RAF, at his position in the nose of the aircraft. Sergeant Turkentine were killed with the rest of t... More
Lancaster flight engineer WWII IWM CH 12289
IWM caption : Flying Officer J B Burnside, the flight engineer on board an Avro Lancaster B Mark III of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, checks settings on the control panel from his seat... More
Lancaster navigator WWII IWM CH 12288
Flying Officer P Ingleby, the navigator of an Avro Lancaster B Mark III of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, seated at his table in the aircraft.
Lancaster wireless operator WWII IWM CH 8790
IWM caption : Flying Officer R W Stewart, a wireless operator on board an Avro Lancaster B Mark I of No. 57 Squadron RAF based at Scampton, Lincolnshire, speaking to the pilot from his position in front of the... More
NAAFI canteen RAF Oakington Feb 1941 IWM CH 2144
IWM caption : RAF personnel being served tea and refreshments in the NAAFI canteen at Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
Radius of action of Allied aircraft from Malta in relation to Axis shi...
Radius of action of Allied aircraft from Malta in relation to Axis shipping routes, Summer and Autumn, 1941
RAF 224 Squadron Liberator crew RAF St Eval 1944 IWM CH 13725
IWM caption : Flying Officer Kenneth Owen 'Kayo' Moore of No 224 Squadron and his crew in front of their Liberator V at St Eval, June 1944, after becoming the only crew in Coastal Command to sink two U-boats i... More
RAF aircrew at RAF Mildenhall WWII IWM CH 2677
IWM caption : The Commanding Officer of No. 149 Squadron RAF talks to his aircrews in their Operations Room at Mildenhall, Suffolk, before they are briefed for the night's raid.
RAF Liberator pigeons WWII IWM CH 12364
IWM caption : Crewmen of Consolidated Liberator GR Mark VA, BZ818 'C', of No. 53 Squadron RAF handling carriers containing homing pigeons at St Eval, Cornwall, after a patrol over the Bay of Biscay. Sergeant J... More
RAF MAAF June 1944 - A family tree with the names of the families
Royal Air Force Command Organization, June 1944
RAFFPU staff WWII IWM CH 14182, Imperial War Museum
IWM caption : Film director, Flight Lieutenant J E Boulting and a WAAF continuity girl, Leading Aircraftwoman Doreen North, discuss the set-up of a shot in a scene at a railway station from "Journey Together" ... More
Royal Air Force raid on Tripoli harbour, 1941
A low-flying attack by the Royal Air Force against shipping in Tripoli harbour on 9th July 1941. A direct hit: ship's boats and debris are flying through the air.