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Harriers are the subject of our latest image gallery by artist Mark Bromley. Originally commissioned for the Heritage collection at BAE Systems, these paintings…

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Everyone is familiar with Joe Rosenthal’s photograph, ‘Raising the Flag On Iwo Jima’. What few people know is that this inspiring moment…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE – L’infanterie Cycliste

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: U-Boat on Hastings beach, April 1919

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945

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