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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 5h

Adjusting rockets on jets, 77 Squadron, Korea, by Ivor Hele, 1952. AWM ART40325

Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sgt Ernest Docherty of the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers writes a letter in camp at Denmead, Hampshire, 29 April 1944. IWM (H 37989), Sgt Bill Wooldridge, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As part of the training of No.5 AFPS, set up for the invasion of North West Europe, the men went on a course at the Irish Guards Battle Training School at Lingfield. Group photo of the cadre as at 25 February 1944, with Maj Gen the Lord Burnham, Director of PR and School staff. IWM (H 36185)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El Alamein, 31 October 1942, by William Dargie, 1943. AWM ART22251

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Liberty Trucks, by Colin Colahan, 1944. Antwerp, a point of light in the centre as a man lights a cigarette. AWM ART26249

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Crew bail out! By Dennis Adams, 1946. AWM ART25693

AWM description: "A chaotic scene inside a burning bomber captures crew members as they attempt escape. In this work Adams draws on his own experience of a crash landing: "The aircraft rolled completely over as it crashed and ground its way to a standstill. In doing so the tail turrets and vast wings and motors were torn off and took fire."".

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lt Harry Rignold (bare headed) and his assistant 2nd Lt Gerry Massey Collier with their Newman Sinclair Autokine Camera on the back of a Bren-gun carrier in France, 1939. A third man in the back steadies the tripod. Rignold was killed at Salerno in September 1943. IWM (O 562), Geoffrey Keating

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Arrival of American Troops in Northern Ireland, January 1942. Dockside Scenes. By Edward Ardizzone. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1825)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leading Aircraftwoman Ida Brown of Stoke Newington, London, and Leading Aircraftwoman Mary Jordan of Dover, preparing prints for despatch in the Sorting Room at the 2nd TAF Photographic Negative Library at Keerbergen, Belgium (IWM text). IWM (CL 2086) Flt Lt N.S. Clark, RAF Official Photographer

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lieutenant Joseph Arthur West of the Army Film and Photographic Unit, holding a Vinten Model K cine camera. West served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and North West Europe. IWM (BU 8365)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Able Seaman Kenneth McIntyre, by John Goodchild, July 1945. AWM ART22787

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Mark Barnes @markbarnesn16.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An excellent article well worth reading, especially if you're a student of AFPU and wartime photography.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My latest Substack article looks at the death of an AFPU photographer on his first assignment, during the Dieppe raid in 1942. insharpfocus.substack.com/p/fatal-assi...

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Fatal Assignment at Dieppe

The death of AFPU Sergeant Holloway during Operation Jubilee

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

H.M.S. Lord Austin Picking Up Survivors from a Bombed American Ship, 1942, by James Morris, 1942. Art.IWM ART 15973 8

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sergeant Strathdee, by Eric Kennington, 1941. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1295)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Troops with Anti-Tank Mortar, West Germany: Preparations for 'Lionheart' September 1984, by Sonia Lawson. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 15954 13)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WRNS Officer and Ratings: Boat-cleaning at the Coastal Motor Boat Base, Haslar Creek, Portsmouth, by David McCormick, 1919. IWM (Art.IWM ART 2619)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday. IWM (D 18485), Jack Smith, MOI Photo Division Photographer

IWM description: "Corn Merchant Harold Davenport (right) and Rev. Harold J Crowasdale (left) enjoy a pint and a chat in the snug of the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon. According to the original caption, Rev Crowasdale is originally from Lancashire and was vicar of All Saint's Church in Ruabon for seven years."

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Evening, by Edward Ardizzone, 1942. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2530)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pilot Officer R.G. White (r) and Pilot Officer J.R. Gravegen (l), of Auckland, New Zealand, of No 125 (Newfoundland) Squadron, RAF, stand on a Defiant night fighter. IWM (CH 4608), RAF Official Photographer

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Twilight of the Wehrmacht, by Colin Colahan, c.1944. AWM ART25709

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Covenanters playing the part of the enemy by the side of a road during Exercise Spartan, 6 March 1943. IWM H 27765, either Sgt Wooldridge or Hardy, AFPU.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Australian infantryman (Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson), by William Dargie, 1942. AWM ART22223

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seaplane, Sikorsky Kingfisher, and RAN cruisers, by Dennis Adams, 1942. AWM ART26928

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Churchill tank raises the dust as it passes through a heavily damaged Normandy village in the Odon valley, 20 July 1944. IWM (A70 90-10), Sgt Carpenter, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

West Country Manoeuvres: Camouflaged Bren Gun Carriers in a Lane, by Edward Ardizzone, 1941. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1494)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jumping Tower for the Training of Polish Parachute Troops at Largo, Fife, by Edward Bawden, 1943. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3147)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Troops of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade photographed during a break in field manoeuvres in Scotland, 27 July 1942. The cigarette holder brings an elegant incongruence to the picture. IWM (HU 128212), Polish Official Photographer

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday. IWM (H 17162), Lt Bainbridge, WO Official Photographer

$Original Caption: Photographs taken for Dental Officer of an interesting case of a fractured jaw. 24th (London) General Hospital, Belfast. Taken by Lt Bainbridge. 10.2.42.$

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sopwith Camel Patrol Attacking an Austrian Aerodrome near Sacile, Italy, by Sydney William Carline, 1918. IWM (Art.IWM ART 4543)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Different styles of architecture, Victoria, London.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Machines in an Underground Factory, by Frank Dobson, 1944. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4096)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Troop Deck, by Edward Ardizzone, 1942. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 2713)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Quite a striking composition by Beaton of a scene in a forward Headquarters of the 2nd New Zealand Division in North Africa. IWM (CBM 1424), Cecil Beaton

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Splendid panels on the outside of the London Fire Brigade building on Albert Embankment, London.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Alert, by Alex Macpherson. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1515)

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A 3-inch mortar crew from the Queens's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in action in Tunisia, 31 January 1943. IWM (NA 576) Sgt Bowman, AFPU

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning. Bit of a thousand bomber raid one this morning.

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brigadier (subsequently Major General) Francis ('Freddie') de Guingand, Chief of Staff to Monty outside Monty's caravan, Tripoli. IWM (E 22000) Capt Keating, AFPU

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