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ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER CREW REMEMBERED AT MEMORIAL EVENT

Pictured: Stanley Johnson performs a reading at a memorial service at RMB Chivenor, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the crash of a Royal Air Force Wellington Bomber during the Second World War. A Memorial Service, led by the Reverend Phil Waites OCM, was held at RMB ...

Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, Red Arrows Chicago Flypast

The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows perform a flypast with the skyline of Chicago as a stunning backdrop. The Red Arrows are displaying to hundreds of thousands of people at the 61st Chicago Air and Water Show. It forms part of the team’s largest ever tour of...

Commemorations for the 50th anniversary of operations in Northern Ireland

Image of veterans at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire today (14/08/2019). To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of Operation Banner in Northern Ireland, commemorations were held today at the Arboretum in Staffordshire. Op Banner lasted almost 38 years...

First steel cut for HMS Cardiff

Image of The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, seen here at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Govan on the River Clyde today(14/08/2019). The first steel was cut for HMS Cardiff, the second ship in the Royal Navy’s next generation of Type 26 anti-subma...

ROYAL NAVY SHIPS DEPLOY ON OPERATIONS

Image of HMS Kent, a Type 23 Duke Class Frigate, seen here leaving HMNB Portsmouth today (12/08/2019). Portsmouth-based warships HMS Kent and HMS Defender today left their homeport to embark on operations to the Gulf and Asia Pacific respectively. Type 23 frigate HMS Kent w...