Photos Taken in United Kingdom | World War II Database

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Firebrand IV aircraft aboard HMS Illustrious on the Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom, 8-9 Feb 1943, photo 9 of 10	Brigadier General Westside T. Larson, commanding officer of Antisubmarine Command in England, commending Captain Jack H. Shaw, Navigator of B-24D Liberator 'Tidewater Tillie,' at RAF St Eval, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom after the aircraft sank a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay.	Two women amidst a wrecked building, Newbury, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 11 Feb 1943	Covenanter tanks and towed artillery passing through a village during Exercise Spartan, Britain, 6 Mar 1943

Covenanter tanks on the side of a road during Exercise Spartan, Britain, 6 Mar 1943	King George VI of the United Kingdom aboard HMS Glasgow at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18-21 Mar 1943	Consolidated Liberator Mark IIIA of RAF No. 224 Squadron returning to Beaulieu, Hampshire, United Kingdom, following a mission to escort a North African convoy, circa 1943.	False letter from Admiral Louis Mountbatten to Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham created along with other fictitious letters as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.

Identity card for Captain (acting Major) William Martin, Royal Marines; one of the fictitious documents created as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1943.	Snapshot of “Major Martin’s” fiancée, Pam, that was part of the papers planted on his body as part of Operation Mincemeat, Apr 1942. In reality, this was an MI5 clerk named Jean Leslie.	A Diamond T tank transporter carrying a Churchill tank at the British Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers experimental recovery section at Aborfield, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, 7 Apr 1943	Launching ceremony of a newly constructed sloop for the Royal Indian Navy, HMIS Kistna, at Yarrows Yard, Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom, 22 Apr 1943

Wife of Vice Admiral V. H. Godfrey launching a newly constructed sloop for the Indian Navy, HMIS Kistna, at Yarrows Yard, Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom, 22 Apr 1943	RAF Flight Lt Charles Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley) and RNVR LtCdr Ewen Montagu driving “Major Martin” from London to Holy Loch, Scotland as part of Operation Mincemeat, 28 Apr 1943.	Covenanter tank during Exercise Columbus, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, May 1943	US Marines on parade on the occasion of USMC's first anniversary of arrival at Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, May 1943

Brigadier General Haywood Hansell and Colonel Curtis LeMay in front of B-17F “Dry Martini – The Cocktail Kids 4” at Chelveston, England, on the occasion of Hansell’s last combat flight, 4 May 1943.	A 2-inch mortar being fired from a Universal Carrier in Britain, 10 May 1943	Air Vice Marshal Ralph Cochrane, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, King George VI, and Group Captain John Whitworth discussing Dambusters Raid at St Vincents Hall, headquarters of No. 5 Group RAF Bomber Command, Grantham, England, United Kingdom, 27 May 1943	King George VI inspecting ground crewmen during his visit to No. 617 Squadron (Dambusters) and No. 57 Squadron at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, 27 May 1943; note Lancaster B Mk I bomber 'Frederick III', the aircraft of Wing Commander Campbell Hopcroft, commanding officer of No. 57 Squadron