Sir Winston Churchill was born 150 years ago
November 30th marks the 150th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's birth.
We pick a few highlights from the vast collection of AP photos of the British wartime leader.
From left: Ian Hamilton, Winston Churchill and Admiral Sir Roger Keyes at The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Division Association reunion at Crystal Palace, London, on June 11, 1938. (AP Photo/Len Puttnam)
Winston Churchill addressing the crowd outside the City of London Recruiting Centre for the Territorial Army at Mansion House, London, on April 24, 1939. (AP Photo/Len Puttnam)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaves 10 Downing Street, London, on Sept. 5, 1940, for the House of Commons which is sitting for one day to hear his new statement on the war situation. (AP Photo/Worth)
Making binoculars of his hands, Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill watches United States Army Paratroops floating down from the sky during his surprise visit to Fort Jackson South Carolina, on June 24, 1942. (AP Photo)
Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister, arrived in Washington on May 11, 1943, and drove to the White House with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Though ill, the prime minister fingered a cigar on which he puffed frequently. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill lights up his cigar again before broadcasting a radio address to the British people from Washington on May 14, 1943. (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)
Among the notables at the Quebec Conference are Princess Alice, wife of the Earl of Athlone, the Earl of Athlone and Governor-General of Canada, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in Quebec, Canada on Aug. 18, 1943. Other man not identified in caption. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)
Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill waves to the crowd that greeted him during a tour of Quebec, Canada, on Aug. 23, 1943. (AP Photo)
Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime prime minister, gives his famous “V” sign greeting as he rides through the streets of Metz, France, on July 14, 1946, enroute to a civic banquet held in his honor during Bastille Day celebrations. With him is Robert Schuman, French finance minister. (AP Photo/B.I. Sanders)
Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine tour Churchill's constituency of Woodford, Essex, May 26, 1945, as part of the Conservative's general election campaign. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)
Winston Churchill appears calmly happy in London on Oct. 26, 1951, as his wife Clementine whispers congratulations as late returns assured his Conservative Party of victory in the British general election. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest)
From left: Leon Blum, French President Vincent Auriol, Winston Churchill, and Georges Bidault, French foreign affairs minister, talking after a dinner in honor of Winston Churchill at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, on May 10, 1947. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy)
British Conservative leader Winston Churchill, accompanied by Brigadier General Gruss and Mayor Charles Frey, views a detachment of the 152 Infantry Regiment in Strasbourg, France, on Aug. 18, 1949, during the present meeting of the Council of Europe. (AP Photo)
Winston Churchill addressing the first session of the conference of the European Movement at the Palais des Academies in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 25, 1949. (AP Photo/Nash)
Sir Winston Churchill, candidate for Woodford, Essex, makes his familiar V-sign as he drives through the constituency in an open car on an eve of election tour on May 25, 1955, puffing as ever at his cigar. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth)
British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill waves from the door of his plane just before leaving Washington National Airport, on June 29, 1954, for Canada after a long weekend of talks with President Eisenhower, unseen, on the world situation. (AP Photo)
Sir Winston Churchill, takes off his glasses in Washington on May 4, 1959, after arriving aboard the president’s personal plane at National Airport. Churchill, on a three-day personal and social visit, was met by President Dwight Eisenhower. He will be a White House guest. (AP Photo)
Rufus shown walking into No. 10 Downing Street in London, England, on Sept. 10, 1954. His master, Sir Winston Churchill, unseen, had just entered. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle)
Driving along Grand Canal from Venice Station to Hotel Excelsior at the Lido is: seated in cabin at extreme right is Clementine Churchill, Christopher Soames (standing behind cabin), Winston Churchill, and Mary Soames, in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 28, 1951, where the Film Festival is taking place. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni)
Winston Churchill who had just disembarked from his gondola, being assisted by attendants to climb the stairs to a party, where he was a "name" guest, at the palace of the Countess Natalia Volpi, in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 5, 1951. Woman at rear is not identified. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni)
Sir Winston Churchill paints in the gardens of the Villa Politi Hotel at Syracuse, Sicily, on April 23, 1955, where he is holidaying with his wife, unseen. At right, reading one of the first newspapers to reach Sicily from Britain after the newspaper strike, is his Private Secretary John Colville. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
British Conservative leader Winston Churchill, left, compares notes with his son-in-law Christopher Soames, center, and his trainer Walter Nightingall, in the ring in Windsor, England, on Sept. 10, 1949. A few minutes later, Tommy Hawcroft, unseen, rode Churchill’s Colonist II to win the Lime Tree Stakes. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest)
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives a congratulatory pat to his horse Colonist II after it had won the Winston Churchill Stakes race at Hurst Park Racecourse, in Surrey, England on May 14, 1951. (AP Photo/Dennis-Lee Royle)
British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill responds with the "V" for victory sign as spectators cheer his arrival at National Airport in Washington, on June 25, 1954, for a weekend of talks with President Eisenhower, unseen. (AP Photo)
Resting on a gun carriage drawn by naval crews, Sir Winston Churchill's flag-draped coffin moves slowly from the Palace of Westminster, in London, England, on Jan.30, 1965, at the start of a solemn state funeral procession to St. Paul's Cathedral. Resting atop the coffin on a black cushion are Sir Winston's insignia of the Order of the Garter. In the background are the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben showing 09.50. (AP Photo/Pool/Eddie Worth)
A statue of Sir Winston Churchill is silhouetted against the Houses of Parliament and the early morning sky in London, England, on June 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Text and photo curation by Katherine O'Mara