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Photograph 011218 Second World War, 1939-1945BRITISH TROOPS IN CYPRUS ARE HAVING EXTENSIVE TRAINING IN COUNTERING ANY POSSIBLE INVASION BY ENEMY PARATROOPS. A MORTAR CREW GOING INTO ACTION.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
BRITISH TROOPS IN CYPRUS ARE HAVING EXTENSIVE TRAINING IN COUNTERING ANY POSSIBLE INVASION BY ENEMY PARATROOPS. A BATTERY IN ACTION.
BRITISH TROOPS IN CYPRUS ARE HAVING EXTENSIVE TRAINING IN COUNTERING ANY POSSIBLE INVASION BY ENEMY PARATROOPS. A MORTAR CREW GOING INTO ACTION.

BRITISH TROOPS IN THE CYPRUS REGION ARE HAVING EXTENSIVE TRAINING. A BREN GUN CARRIER COVERING ROUGH COUNTRY DURING EXERCISES.

TRAINING OF "PARASHOOTERS". FORM OF TEDDY BEAR AND LING 'CHUTE. (NEGATIVE BY B.M.I.). These volunteers are aiming their .303 rifles at a toy teddy bear suspended from a small parachute. German par

SKY TROOPS. A DRAMATIC PICTURE OF BRITISH PARATROOPS ON A TRAINING JUMP. THE USE OF PARATROOPS IN THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN WAS A BIG FACTOR IN THE ALLIED VICTORY. (NEGATIVE BY B.M.I.).

BRITISH TROOPS IN CYPRUS. BRITISH TROOPS ON A HIGH RIDGE SPRAYING THE "ENEMY" WITH BREN GUN AND RIFLE FIRE DURING MANOEUVRES.

New Guinea. US paratroops who landed on Noemfoor Island survey the bodies of dead Japanese after having destroyed enemy troops near the airfield.
