Messerschmitt Me 110 fighter.
Junkers Ju88 bomber.
Junkers Ju87 divebomber.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.
Crewmembers of a Heinkel He 111 bomber.
Londoners trying to get some sleep in the tunnels of the Underground during the 1941 Blitz of the city.
Children in the Blitz on London.
German incendiary bombs started hundreds of fires across the cities of Britain in the Blitz.
Flight Lieutenant R.F. Boyd
Flight Lieutenant C.B.F. Kingcome
Wing Commander Jamie Rankin
A British commemorative stamp
Signature chalkboard of Battle of Britain pilots, from the White Hart pub at Brasted near RAF Biggin Hill.
Workers in the Castle Bromwich Spitfire plant assembling fuel tanks for the planes.
A Chain Home radar tower at Great Baddow, Essex.
A child’s ‘Mickey Mouse’ gas mask.
An editorial cartoon from the London Daily Mail of 17 September 1940.
I thought you had a winning system, Hermann!
A battle-damaged Messerschmitt Bf110 after crash-landing at its base in France during the Battle.
RAF fighter pilots, mostly sergeants, awaiting the call to action at Hawkinge.
Hurricane pilots race to their planes.
Battle of Britain veteran pilots Douglas Bader and Ginger Lacey visiting the set of the United Artists Battle of Britain movie at RAF Duxford in 1968.
Pilot Officer Percival Stanley Turner, a Hurricane pilot of No. 242 Squadron at Duxford and then at Coltishall.
Heinkel He 111 bombers partially concealed on their airfields in France.
A Messerschmitt Bf110 over England in the Battle.
A Junkers Ju88 being refueled.
The crew of a Ju88 preparing for a raid in 1940.
Luftwaffe chief, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering.
Heinkel He 111 bombers on their way to strike an English target.
Crewmen aboard a Heinkel He 111 bomber.
Adolf Galland, Gruppenkommandeur of 111 Jagdgeschwader in the Battle.
Galland as a technical advisor for the Battle of Britain movie in 1968.
A Messerschmitt Bf110 brought down in England during the Battle.
A ‘presentation’ Spitfire.
The Chequers pub in Fowlmere, a favourite haunt of the pilots of 19 Squadron.
The partial remains of a Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter shot down over England in the Battle.
The bomb aimer and pilot of a Junkers Ju88 during their run over the target.
English mothers and grandmothers being shown how to use the protective gas mask cover for babies.
English citizens viewing a downed German aircraft during the Battle.
Downed German fliers who have just become prisoners of war in England during the Battle of Britain.
A German soldier guarding the former RAF Headquarters building on Jersey, the Channel Islands, during the German occupation of the island.
Sergeant Pilot Dennis Robinson survived the downing of his Spitfire on 8 August 1940 by Bf109s off Swanage.
A reminder that no church bells were to be rung until the day of Allied victory in the war.
RAF fighter pilots try to relax between sorties in the Battle.
A Polish fighter pilot with the RAF in the Second World War.
A British gun camera sequence showing the downing of a German raider in 1940.
Members of the Royal Observer Corps in their post during the Battle.
Commemorative Battle of Britain postal cover and stamp set.
From the Henry Moore shelter series.
Sergeant Pilot J.H. Lacey.
Flight Lieutenant J.A. Kent, centre, CO of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron, with two of his pilots.