Commando Collection

HMS Albion (R07) after conversion to a Commando Carrier

HMS Albion (R07) when in use as a Commando Carrier, December 1971

WW2 Poster -- Back Them Up
Back Them Up! Colour photolithograph printed by Fosh and Cross Ltd, published by HMSO. Showing a British Commando raid on a German-held port in Norway. Date: 1940

WW2 poster, Back Them Up! Showing a British commando raid on a German-held port in Norway. Date: 1940s

Britains frogmen divers by G. H. Davis
Introducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches. These underwater commandos worked off the D-Day beaches

Royal Marine Commandos re-embarking from a Westland Wessex helicopter on to a Royal Navy Commando Carrier

Royal Navy - HMS Bulwark R08, a Commando Carrier, converted from a Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier, entering port with decks lined, in March 1973. Date: 1973

The British attack on rebels in the Sultanate of Brunei
Running from a transport aircraft after arriving at Anduki airfield: Commando troops of the Queens Own Highlanders

Headstone Major Gus March-Phillips, St Laurent sur Mer
The grave is in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. March-Phillips commanded a Small Scale Landing Force that came ashore here in a Commando operation named Aquatint on 12 September 1942

46 Royal Marines Commando Memorial Rots Normandy
Unusually this black marble memorial list the ages of the fallen. It commemorates the fighting in Rots and le Hamel of 11 June 1944

Captain Terence Cousins Memorial Roundabout
This was unveiled following a brief ceremony on 7 June 2004. 47 Royal Marine Commando, Cousins unit, gained the heights above Port en Bessin on D Day

HMS Hermes R12
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes R12, a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, modified as an ASW - Commando - Air Defence carrier, seen entering Devonport after returning from the Falklands conflict, in 1982

Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, WW2
Recruitment poster, Commando Medical Service, February 1945, Second World War Date: 1945

Curtiss C-46D Commando 44-77635
Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando 44-77635 (msn 33031-CU1567), on display at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Date: circa 1990

Curtiss C-46A Commando 91-1138 (msn 30553), on display at the JASDF Air Park and Museum, Hamamatsu Air Base Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Date: circa 2000

Curtiss C-46F Commando N53594 China Doll
Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando N53594 China Doll (MSN 22486, ex 44-78663), of the Confederate Air Force, at Midland Airport on 8-10 October 1992. Date: 1992

Westland Lynx AH. 7 XZ182 - M
Royal Marines - Westland Lynx AH.7 XZ182 - M (msn 058), of 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron Date: circa 1998

Curtiss C-46F Commando N69343 (ex 44-78579), of Trans Caribbean. Date: circa 1961

No 3 Commando & Brigadier Peter Young Memorial
This is at Petiville and was inaugurated on the 50th Anniversary by a delegation of Commandos and veterans. In the Mairie are a picture of the Brigadier

1st Special Service Brigade Memorial, le Plain
The Brigade comprised Numbers 4, 5, 6 Commando, 45 Royal Marine Commando and No 10 Inter Allied Commando. They are all commemorated on a plaque at the bottom of the cross

Com Deb Sig Liberation Memorial, Oistreham
Ten distinctive Comite du Debarquement Memorials were put up at stragegic points to commemorate the landings and the Liberation. This one, which has beside it a No

Aquatint British Commando Raid 12 September 1942
The memorial plaque is on a wall facing Omaha Beach. A forceof the British Small Scale Raiding Force Commando of 11 men commanded by Major Gus March - Phillips attempted a landing here but came under

Curtiss-Wright C-46D Commando CC-CDH
Curtiss-Wright C-46D-10-CU Commando CC-CDH (msn 32940), of Alfa Chile at Miami International Airport, with a RANSA (Rutas Aereas Nacionales SA) Boeing 377 in the background

Curtiss C-46D Commando N74690 (msn 33463, ex 44-78067) of Aero Maintenance Inc, Miami Springs, FL. Delivered to U.S. Army Air Force as 44-78067 on 21 March 1945 and struck off charge on 2 May 1947

Curtiss C-46A Commando N1385N (msn 449-CK427), of US Airlines Inc. Date: 1956

Curtiss-Wright C-46D-15-CU Commando N95445 (msn 33477 - ex 44-78081) of Phenix Airlines. One of several irregular carriers which existed specifically for the purpose of transporting gamblers to

Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando N4877V (msn 22442) of Capitol Airways. 44-78619, disposed of to the Foreign Liquidation commission on 20 August 1947 and bought by Claire L

Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, 3rd pattern, 1943, carried at Normandy Landings, Sgts Scott, No 3 Commando, 1944. Unknown maker. Date: 1940

Commandos wade ashore from landing craft at Juno beach
Photograph showing Commando operations during the invasion of Normandy, June 1944: troops, some with bicycles, going ashore

Curtiss Wright R5C-1 Commando trio of the US Marines on a Pacific Island airstrip

HMS Albion (R07) shortly before conversion to a Commando Carrier, December 1960

Commandant Kiefer & 4 Commando Memorial
This is in Colleville-Montgomery opposite the First British Graves Memorial and remembers both Kieffer and the French Forces of No 4 Commando. There are a number of memorials to Kieffer

3210 Servicing Commando RAF Memorial ALG B3
The RAF Commando Units were trained and organised in a similar way to the Army and Royal Marines Commandos. They accompanied forward Units into battle to maintain the air strips made by

Commandos doing close quarter and unarmed combat
Photograph showing commandos doing close quarter and unarmed combat, Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, 1941-1943. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1943

Lt Col Tim Collins
Digital photograph: Lt Col Tim Collins commanding officer of The Royal Irish Regiment talks to his troops on the eve of the Coalition forces invasion of Iraq.Photographed by WO2 Giles Penfound

A marine serving with Mortar Platoon, 40 Commando Royal Mari
Digital photograph: A marine serving with Mortar Platoon, 40 Commando Royal Marine attached to the Black Watch Battle Group at Camp Dogwood takes an opportunity to have a field shower during a fire

Commando raid on Vaagso, Operation Archery 1941
Operation Archery, also known as the Maaloy Raid - British Combined Operations raid during World War Two against German positions on the island of Vaagso, Norway, on 27th December 1941

Iraq-Kuwait tensions 1961 - helicopters leaving HMS Bulwark
Britains spearhead in Kuwait - men of 42 Marine Commando embarking in helicopters of H.M.S. Bulwark to land in Kuwait in July 1961 in support of the Sheikhs request for reinforcement against

Amphibious tanks moving through a town, June 1944
Colour transparency showing amphibious tanks moving through a town, June 1944. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). Date: 1944

Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers
Photograph showing the Rhine crossing: two Commandos looking out for snipers among the ruins of Osnabuck, 4 Apr 1945. Armed with a Bren Gun and Thompson sub-machine gun

WW2 - view of beach-head
Photograph: view of beach-head. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). From a collection of 650 photographs compiled by the Commando Association. Date: 1944

WW2 - Rocket Gun Battery in action
Photograph, 1941 (c): rocket gun battery in action. The trail of scores of rockets shooting towards the sky and bursting. Associated with World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)

New Zealanders going over the top
Photograph: New Zealanders going over the top following an artillery barrage, during an attack on Cassino. Associated with World War Two, Italy (1943-1945)

Commandos weapon training with Bren guns
Photograph showing commandos weapon training with Bren guns, Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, 1941-1943.Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1943

Curtiss C-46 Commando production at the Buffalo plant of Curtiss-Wright

Commercial Curtiss C-46 Commando

Curtiss C-46E-CS Commando

Curtiss C-46A-CU Commando 42-96803
Curtiss C-46A-CU Commando, 42-96803

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