A US Boeing B-17 Fortress on a training exercise somewhere over Great Britain - date unknown

German soldiers watch for any signs of the enemy - Voronezh - Summer 1942 CREDIT : Shuultz

Women from a West Country munitions factory are shown how to fire the mortar bombs they had been manufacturing - England 1940

A damaged German Jagdpanther is inspected by a US soldier somewhere in France - July 1944. The Jagdpanther’s highly efficient 8.8cm (3.5inch) gun and low silhouette made them a fearsome adversary

American combat engineers take a break from training to stand and eat their meals atop rows of stockpiled ammunition shells - Stratford-upon-Avon, England, May 1944

German Panzer III’s and IV’s roll down the main street of a town somewhere in northern France - exact date and location unknown

US soldiers under fire from retreating German troops during the liberation of Rome - May 1944

British Navy landing craft carry US Army Rangers to a ship in the English Channel on 1st June 1944 in preparation for D-day

A German Heinkel crew get ready for a other mission over England - 1940

Members of the British SBS (Special Boat Service), aided by members of the Greek Special Forces carry out a raid on the Island of Rhodes coded named Operation Anglo - August 1942

British soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment watch for any signs of the enemy - Rumegies, Jan 1940

British airborne troops undergo training - Netheravon, England, 2nd Oct 1942

A German POW is given C rations by a US private after capture at Monte Cassino - 1944. C rations consisted of two cans (one a meat and veg dish the other a bread or crackers dessert) a powered beverage and condiments.

A German He177A-3 tries desperately to get off the ground and away from the destruction after an airfield at Schwäbisch-Hall, north east of Stuttgart is hit by allied bombers - 25th April 1944

A German Ju 87D of III./St.G17. Staffel is about to take off from the Dnieper border region - Eastern Front, Summer 1942. Note the wheel casings have been removed to avoid the plane flipping over on poor surfaces during landing / take off

Two Messerschmitt BF-110D-1’s fly over the coast of North Africa - 1943