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A Royal Marine Gazelle light helicopter takes off.

Royal Marines in combat, south Iraq.

A British Royal Artillery patrol.

The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Liverpool sails past the helicopter assault ship HMS Ocean. Note the zebra-camoflagued Sea King transport helicopters of quite probably the Commando Helicopter Force idle on the deck.

Soldiers of the RAF Regiment emerge out of a Chinook transport helicopter.

Soldiers of the RAF Regiment fire off a mortar flare.

An RAF Chinook ferries supplies to Iraq.

A pair of RAF Puma transport helicopters deliver the Chief of Defence Staff on a visit to Iraq.

RAF Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft return from the Gulf.

RAF F3 air defence fighters over the desert.

An RAF helicopter patrol, south Iraq

RAF Chinooks whip up dust clouds during training operations with 16 Air Assault Brigade.

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.

HMAS Anzac fires a salvo from it's five inch armament. The shore bombardment of the Al Faw Penisula by several warships of the Royal Navy/Royal Australian Navy at the start of the Iraq War was dubbed 'Five Inch Friday.'

An Australian F-18 Hornet conducts the last operational mission of the Australian combat squadron deployed during the Iraq War.

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 U.S. M2 Bradley plows past an uninterested camel.