RAF pilots in training with the Embry-Riddle Company at Carlstrom Field near Arcadia in Florida in 1941. Ian Carter, author of War in the Air and senior curator at the Imperial War Museum, said: “Colour photography was a rarity during the second world war; film was scarcely available and images were expensive to print. Each photograph has been carefully optimised by the museum’s team of expert restorers to bring back the accuracy, colour and detail over the years, which have faded from both paper and memory”