A torpedo on display in a museum, seen from the front, showing four spring-loaded 'whiskers'

A German Type G7e TIII electric torpedo, on display at #IWMLondon.

An improved version of an unreliable earlier model, it carried a 250kg warhead at 30 knots, to a maximum range of 5km. Torpedoes like this were the U-boat force's primary weapon as they stalked Allied merchant shipping. #wartour

A tile mural on display in a museum shows Saddam Hussein, holding a rifle in his right hand, wearing a blue suit and dark hat. In the foreground the Dome of the Rock at Al Aqsa.

Tile mural of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from the port city of Umm Qasr, removed at local request by British troops following the US-led coalition's invasion of Iraq in 2003, on display at #IWMLondon.

Among other things, Hussein is remembered for starting a disastrous war with Iran. #wartour

A wooden figure of a Gurkha soldier

Close-up of a wooden figure of a Gurkha soldier.

A wooden figure of a Gurkha rifleman of the Burma campaign, on display at #IWMLondon. He wears a jungle green uniform with the 'golden arrow' patch of 7th Indian Division, and is armed with a Sten submachine gun. #wartour

A photograph of a large model battleship in a museum showcase.

Builder's model of the dreadnought battleship HMS Hercules, on display at #IWMLondon. HMS Hercules fought in the 1916 Battle of Jutland.

This model was badly damaged by German bombing during the Blitz in 1941, and was restored in time for the First World War centenary in 2014. #wartour

Gassed by John Singer Sargent

The Menin Road by Paul Nash

Over The Top by John Nash

Runway Perspective and De-Icing Aircraft by Eric Ravilious

Artworks on display in the Art, Film and Photography Gallery at #IWMLondon.

Gassed by John Singer Sargent (1919)
The Menin Road by Paul Nash (1919)
Over The Top by John Nash (1918)

Runway Perspective and De-Icing Aircraft by Eric Ravilious (both 1942)

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A name plate on a wooden fishing boat, with the name Tamzine picked out in white paint.

Name plate on 'Tamzine', a 14-foot fishing boat which was the smallest vessel to take part in the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk in 1940, on display at #IWMLondon. #wartour

A red-painted aircraft wreck, missing its wings and engine, on display on a museum plinth. On the wal behind itl a heavily inscribed Japanese flag.

Wreck of a Japanese Zero fighter aircraft, recovered in the 1990s from Taroa in the Marshall Islands. Also the yosegaki hinomaru inscribed personal flag of Asano Makoto 朝野誠, captured by 7th Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment during the 1944-45 Arakan campaign in Burma, on display at #IWMLondon. #wartour

A close-up shows a black metal aircraft fuselage marked with rows of hand painted red, white, blue and yellow Royal Air Force roundels.

Mission marks on a cockpit section of a Royal Australian Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bomber named 'Old Fred' on display at #IWMLondon. With No. 467 Squadron RAAF this aircraft flew 49 operational sorties in 1943-44, inc. ops against Berlin and targets in France before D-Day. #wartour #AvHist

Three colourful ceramic jugs depicting men in uniform

Commemorative jugs depicting the Allied commanders towards the end of the First World War, on display at #IWMLondon.

In front, General John Pershing, US Army🇺🇸. Right, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, British Expeditionary Force🇬🇧. Behind, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Supreme Allied Commander🇫🇷.

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Close up of a large bronze eagle, with a bullet hole below the beak.

Face of a bullet-holed Nazi eagle from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, on display at #IWMLondon.

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An artillery piece on display in a museum, pointing to the right.

A 13-pounder field gun on display at #IWMLondon, believed to be a composite of guns of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, damaged in action on 1 Sept 1914 at Néry in France when UK 1st Cavalry Brigade fought the German 4th Cav Div. L Battery received 3 Victoria Crosses for its role.

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A view of a rocket engine in a green-painted rocket. A mass of silver pipework surrounds a bulbous combustion chamber.

Engine of a German V2 rocket, an early ballistic missile, on display at #IWMLondon.

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