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Here, a Lancaster is seen deploying Barnes Wallis's infamous 'bouncing bomb' in a training run off the Kent coast. Manufactured by Vickers-Armstrong, the bomb was designed to rebound off the surface of water allowing its detonation to be calculated and typical water defences avoided during strategic bombing runs.
A Lancaster from 103 squadron waits at the runway at RAF Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire, before taking off on a night bombing raid on Duisburg during the Battle of the Ruhr, 26 March 1943. Three searchlights around the runway align to a point to indicate the level of the cloud base around the misty airfield.
A Lancaster during a rare daylight attack on the oil refinery and storage depot of the Deutsche Vacuum AG, Bremen, 21 March 1945. 133 Lancasters and six De Havilland Mosquitos carried out the raid. Just over a month later, Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.
Londoners would famously make use of the capital's underground stations as shelters during World War Two.
Trench warfare was a critical component in European theatre of World War I. Here, British soldiers occupy a German trench in at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Soldiers go 'over the top' during the Battle of the Somme. Conditioned by conservative societal customs, the violence and magnitude of the loss caused by World War 1 was too much for post-Victorian society to comprehend.