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An undated photo of Nina Theilade, who won wide acclaim for her dancing in the fabled 1935 film version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and then perfo...

The forward fuselage and No. 2 engine of 159 Squadron Mk III Liberator BZ897 / A GRIPPING new book which tells the first-person story of one of the br...

An air gunner sits to the right of his twin .303-inch Brownings, which protrude through a closed Mk II Liberator beam hatch. He sights his target thro...

By the evening of 27 April 1943, 159 Squadron was down to only two flying bombers after Mk II Liberator AL550 crashed into an aircraft shelter with no...

The Gauntlett crew in front of our Mk II Liberator, AL597, at 159 Squadron???s base at Salbani, India in the spring of 1943. Left to right: Willy Kirb...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

FASCINATING footage from the 1960s has resurfaced this week, shedding light on the formative years of cryopreservation, which could potentially see th...

No. 159 Squadron Gunnery Leader Bob Ustick (left) instructs ground crewman Norman Chambers (centre) and air gunner Billy Clegg at the port beam hatch...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

INTIMATE footage of the Royals, including a 13-year-old Elizabeth II, has resurfaced today, offering a rare glimpse into the lives Britain???s most fa...

Men at work [making artificial legs] in the J.E. Hangar shop, a manufacturer of artificial limbs in Washington, D.C. 1916 / FASCINATING IMAGES from ov...

Two men work on covering an artificial limb to make it more life like, 1918 / FASCINATING IMAGES from over a century ago showing some of the early adv...

A factory worker works on an artificial leg for a WW1 victim, 1918 / FASCINATING IMAGES from over a century ago showing some of the early advances mad...

Three men using artificial arms in New York, 1915 / FASCINATING IMAGES from over a century ago showing some of the early advances made in the producti...

Finished and semi-finished artificial limbs in Paris, 1919 / FASCINATING IMAGES from over a century ago showing some of the early advances made in the...

Louis Blin, a man with artificial legs who served as a monitor at French school for the disabled, 1918 / FASCINATING IMAGES from over a century ago sh...

Embargoed to 0001 Saturday June 16 File photo dated 18/6/1984 of a twisted sign, felled concrete posts and a broken wall tell the story of violence ou...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE from the First World War showing Germans soldiers rushing through trenches and over no man???s land during the Battle of the Somme...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

George laying a wreath in Washington DC. TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing l...

George VI, 1942. TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his...

George and Elizabeth visiting Washington DC, 9 June 1939. TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-...

The Royal Family in 1915, George, then known as Albert on the far left. TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fasc...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his reign as monarch...

George VI, 1940. TO MARK the anniversary of the burial of King George VI, a compilation of fascinating retro-footage showing landmark moments from his...

HARROWING FOOTAGE from the Second World War showing the annihilation of the German city of Dresden by Allied forces has resurfaced today, on the anniv...