Kit used by commandos during the Vaagso Raid is reviewed in this naval instructional film, which explores the lessons learnt during the 1941 operation in Norway.

Watch the whole film: bit.ly/3QMIRtK

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Ground personnel of the 324th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force fit Bazooka tubes onto the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt.

Watch our video on the Thunderbolt: bit.ly/3Ku3c3b

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Troops of the 1st Paratroop Battalion take cover in a shell hole in Arnhem, 17 September 1944.

See more photos from Operation Market Garden on our website: bit.ly/3Es8Pw9

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Today in 1944, Women's Royal Naval Service dispatch rider Joan Pallister, with her Ariel motorcycle, stands by to rush urgent messages from a naval operations centre in Rosyth to ships in the harbour.

Photo: Imperial War Museums A 23516

A sniper demonstrates the superior 'Hawkins' prone firing position (right) next to another in the standard position, at the 21st Army Group sniping school near Eindhoven, 15 October 1944.

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Red Cross staff of the Sacre Coeur Civilian Hospital photographed in occupied Belgium, at Ypres, January 1915.

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A Bren gun team are pictured in action at a battle school in Eastern command, 14 September 1942. Taken by War Office photographer Lt. Len Puttnam.

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Last chance to see The Waiting Gardens of the North, by Michael Rakowitz at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Part of our IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, a programme of over 20 artist commissions inspired by the heritage of conflict.

Find out more: bit.ly/3V4RUck

A Chinook delivers 'creature comforts' to soldiers during a training exercise.

The clip comes from a 1988, Ministry of Defence-sponsored filmed titled 'RAF - A Force for Peace'. You can watch the full film on our website: bit.ly/3QMOU1L

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Off-duty British servicemen line the streets of Gezireh (Gezira) in Cairo to watch a cycling race organised by the British forces cycling club known as 'The Buckshee Wheelers', 1944.

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Women of the Women's Royal Army Corps are filmed at work for a 1965 promotional film.

You can watch the film in full on our website: bit.ly/3PSjiHy

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Today in 1944, British troops of 6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers march along a dusty road towards Monte Cassino, as the artillery of Eighth Army bombards Monastery Hill.

Photo: Sergeant Loughlin, Imperial War Museums NA 15059

Not a bad venue for my first event talking about #AgentZo aka #ElżbietaZawacka aka #ElizabethWatson - the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi-occupied Poland during #ww2 .
Thank you for inviting me Imperial War Museums London!

Today in 1944, at Hardway in Gosport, on England's south coast, workers lay 'chocolate block' concrete sections. They're strengthening the beach surface to allow loading of landing ships with heavy vehicles, ahead of the D-Day invasion.

Photo: Sergeant Bert Hardy Imperial War Museums H 38515

The excellent Roger Moorhouse 🇺🇦 will be interviewing me about this legendary resistance fighter at the Imperial War Museums London tonight.
Do join us to hear about #AgentZo aka
#ElżbietaZawacka #ElizabethWatson !

Today in 1944, this photo of American fighter ace Robert J Rankin is approved for publication. Three days earlier, while flying his P-47 Thunderbolt, Rankin had shot down five Messerschmitt 109s while escorting a bomber mission to Germany.

Photo: Imperial War Museums FRE 2678

#OTD in 1919 Edith Cavell's funeral took place at Westminster Abbey. William Hatherall painted the scene as part of Imperial War Museums's Women's Work Section. The painting has its own war history; in August 1939 it was relocated from London when IWM activated its evacuation plan #FWW #SWW

German prisoners of war filmed in Dorchester prison camp’s library (for ‘a quiet read or game of chess’) during the First World War, July 1917.

The clip features in a British propaganda film on the treatment of German POWs. Watch in full: bit.ly/3UZu0ip

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