Gunner's Moon by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG541 Ground crew prepare Hajo Hermanns

Ground crew prepare Hajo Hermanns Ju88 for its next bombing sortie

Lancasters of No

M19 self-propelled antiaircraft guns guns of the 82nd Battalion give cover to the M46 Patton tanks and men of the US Armys 2nd Division during their hazardous retreat south from the Yalu River

Fuso took part in the Leyte Gulf operations and was sunk by two torpedoes from US destroyers on 25th October 1944

Bismarck was pounded into a floating wreck

Gunner's Moon by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG541 Ground crew prepare Hajo HermannsB0308AP. Gunner's Moon by Ivan Berryman. On the night of 7th 8th June 1944, a Lancaster of No. 207 Sqn piloted by Wing Commander John Grey was part of a force of 112 bombers and 10 Mosquitoes sent to attack a tank storage park near Cerisy la Foret. With the D Day landings just 48 hours old, it was considered too risky to leave the tank park intact, should the Germans try to launch a counter thrust from this position, just 20 miles from the French