Squadron Leader L C Wade, commanding No. 145 Squadron, sitting in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk VIII at Triolo landing ground, south of San Severo in Italy, 12 November 1943. Cold War The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS):

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS): Using a Kine-Theodolite - an instrument which records on film the bursts of anti-aircraft shells - two ATS women check the accuracy of the firing at an AA Battery at Manorbier

The unit was responsible for creating smokescreens over the invasion area

Fred King from Fulham and Albert Elcombe

Winston Churchill with President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at a dinner party at the British Legation in Tehran on the occasion of Churchill's 69th birthday

Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar

Squadron Leader L C Wade, commanding No. 145 Squadron, sitting in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire HF Mk VIII at Triolo landing ground, south of San Severo in Italy, 12 November 1943. Cold War The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS):Squadron Leader L C Wade, Officer Commanding No. 145 Squadron RAF, sitting in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire HF Mark VIII at Triolo landing ground, south of San Severo, Italy, shortly before the end of his second tour of operations in the Mediter