Images Dated 23rd July 2021 (#93)

Women of the WRNS doing skilled jobs such as carpenters and fitters at a Royal Naval Depot show themselves capable craftswomen. Photo shows: A maintenance worker on the turning machine

Burning coal dumps at Spitsbergen seen from the air. 150, 000 tonnes were burnt to prevent the Germans from using it. Circa September 1941

Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Norway, seen here at a dressing station in Vagsoy. 31st December 1941

Nigerian tin miners at work during the Second World War. 30th January 1944

Soldiers of the British Eighth Army take control of a town in Sicily following the Allied landings on the island in the Second World War. August 1943

Nigerian Sappers for the Royal West African Frontier Force. (Picture) African recruits trying on their Army boots for the first at the Engineers Training Centre, Bukuru, Northern Nigeria

f all the man-sized jobs women have tackled during the war, none is perhaps bigger than that undertaken by Mrs Taylor of Bury, Lancashire

On the FifthArmy Front in Italy during the Second World War. In their drive from the south towards Imola and Bologna, British troops of the 5th Army in Italy have captured Monte Penzola

German army retreat in Montenegro during the Second World War. South of Niksic, three enemy divisions are trying to force their way north along the Niksic road

RAF Liberators of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, recently made a daylight attack on an important Japanese held railway station at Pak Nam Phau in Burma

The Channel Islands, the only part of the United Kingdom to be occupied during the Second World War, were finally liberated at 7.14 am on 9th May 1945 when Major General Heine of the german Army

In a Ministry of Supply filling factory, shells are cleaned up after the explosive has been put in during the Second World War

Valentine tanks on exercise in East Anglia during Second World War. Circa 1940s

A factory doing vital work on the sten gun for the Ministry of Supply employs workers of many nations; British and allies and refugees from Axis countries

Manila on fire as US forces liberate Philippine capital. Fires, demolished buildings and a destroyed bridge form part of the destruction i the wake of the Japanese garrison whose desperate resistance

Canadian guard hear a mission briefing outside a communal building in Barentsburg, as part of the raid on Spitsbergen. 9th September 1941

British armour captures a bridge across the Waal river in the Netherlands. 23rd September 1944

As part of the raid on Vagsoy the R. A. F. bombed the aerodrome at Herdia to prevent enemy
As part of the raid on Vagsoy the R.A.F. bombed the aerodrome at Herdia to prevent enemy aircraft from assisting the garrison. Circa December 1941

British army troops are now under canvas in an area of the Northern Command where they are camped on the banks of a river and being traded in the use of collapsable attack boats

Practical demonstrations of the effect and the methods of combatting gas spray from enemy aircraft are given to British Army troops

Norwegians waiting to be evacuated from the Svalbard Islands late one evening during the Spitzbergen Raid. 2nd September 1941

Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Vagsoy and Maloy, seen here examining a field gun. 1st January 1942

In a bright, airy shop in a Ministry of Supply factory, fuses are assembled by girls working alongside male inspectors during the Second World War. June 1941

British pack mules in Africa during the Second World War. 17th January 1943

Evacuees on a ship from Great Britain arrive in South Africa during the Second World War. 18th October 1940

Allied supplies, tanks and mobile artillery crosses the Rhine during the Second World War. 28th March 1945

Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War. Canadian

Indian troops at a road junction during the battle for Keren. 26th April 1941

The bombing of Caproni workshops at Mai Edaga by the R. A. F. during Second World War
The bombing of Caproni workshops at Mai Edaga by the R.A.F. during Second World War. 9th April 1941

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Working on two shifts in the twenty four hours, the entire Fire Brigade at a large Ministry of Supply factory in the South of England are assembling rifles instead of idly waiting for the fire alarm

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Furniture being removed from a bombed house in Bethnal Green during Second World War. 13th June 1944

An Airman of the RAF who took part in the raid on the German capital Berlin, picture at his base back in England after the mission. August 1940

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Bomb damage to St. Benedicts Road in Birmingham during Second World War. 19th August 1940

The Reconnaissance Corps, the "armed eyes"of the British Army
The Reconnaissance Corps, the " armed eyes" of the British Army, seek out the enemy and establishes preliminary contact

British army batmen of the British Expeditionary Force service in France during the Second World, seen here cleaning boots for their respective superior officers. They are left to right: Private J

French civilians search through bombed ruins during Second World War somewhere in France. 20th July 1944

A small party of British officers went into Abyssinia in August 1940 and started revolt and were responsible for the training of patriot troops of the Emperor of Ethiopia in their fight to rid

Royal Air Force serving in France in the early stages of the Second World War. Picture shows: RAF mechanics overhauling a tractor which has become stuck in the thick snow somewhere in France

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