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A line of RAF Chinooks takes off an undisclosed airstrip.

Inside a Royal Marine helicopter during a medevac mission.

HMS Richmond, a Royal Navy Duke-class frigate, bombards Iraq with its 4.5 inch armament at the start of the Iraq War. The circular coverings in the foreground beside the gun is a vertically-launched Seawolf SAM system.

HMS Liverpool, a Type 42 destroyer, patrolling the Gulf at sunset.

One of the last RAF Canberra reconnaissance aircraft sits idle on an Iraqi airstrip. After the end of major hostilities in the Iraq War, it was used in mapping activities.

A British patrol on one of Iraq's waterways.

A British Royal Marine Gazelle of the Commando Helicopter Force sweeps the Iraqi coast.

The RAF Detachment assigned to Basra International Airport. The aircraft dominating the picture is a Hercules transport aircraft, flanked by British armoured land rovers.

A British Sea King troop helicopter takes off beside a soldier manning a vehicle checkpoint in Iraq.

A British unit poses in front of the Union Jack. Note the captured Iraqi weapons being handled.

A British Challenger 2 Tank advances under a passing U.S. Marine Corps Cobra gunship.

An Iraqi cyclist examines a British Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank in Basra.

A British sniper covers an assault, south Iraq.

A British Saxon APC patrols Basra, South Iraq.

U.S. Marines attack Umm Qasr, south Iraq, supported by British artillery.

A pair of British Signalmen in Iraq.

British reconnaissance troops cross a bridge in Iraq.

A British armoured unit patrols a bridge in Basra, Iraq.

An armoured British Army patrol in South Iraq.

A British Army paratroopers man a moratr in action.