A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945. Type:stretched canvas No 40 Squadron

No 40 Squadron

31 May 1940

Medicine: Two FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) cooks outside their hut with piled up trays of food at Calais

Winston Churchill inspects the new Lee-Enfield No

The canaries were kept not only to cheer the wounded but also to give warning of gas attacks

A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945. Type:stretched canvas No 40 SquadronA De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VI of 'A' Flight, No. 143 Squadron RAF, firing on two moored merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire, during an attack by the Banff Strike Wing on concentrations of enemy shipping in Sandefjord, Norway. Two merchant v