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A hazard of convoy duty for women in the Mechanised Transport Corps, Jeep stuck in the mud, on a cold winter day, Circa 1944
Flying bomb incident at Petherton Road, Highbury, London, causing fracturing of water mains and flooding of basements in nearby housing, Sunday 2nd July 1944
A reconnaissance photograph taken by the RAF of the completely destroyed town of Duren, Germany, after the daylight attack by RAF Lancaster Bombers of Nos, 4, 6 and 8 Groups
Damage to the Rheinmetall Borsig AG plant in Dusseldorf following an attack by bombers of RAF Bomber Command on the night of the 22nd/23rd April 1944
Operation Blackcock (14th - 26th January 1945) was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands
The Merchant Services Fighter United, an RAF operational aircraft unit based at Speke Airport, have played one of the most daring parts in the war at sea and in the air
This synthetic oil plant at Bottrop, west of Gelsenkirchen, Germany, produced 100, 000 barrels of oil per month for the German war machine before it was wrecked from the air
A reconnaissance photograph taken by 542 Squadron RAF of the completely destroyed town of Duren, Germany, two days after the daylight attack by RAF Bombers of Nos, 4, 6 and 8 Groups
Home Guard armoured train with a 6-pounder gun mounted in the front. Location unknown apart from that is is in England. Picture circa 20th February 1944
Driver Harrison of London inspects the silk stockings that are on sale in the Corps gift shop near the front line. The shop sells perfume, toys
Inside the ruins of the Reichstag. Circa July 1945
A British solder having a bath. Tobruk. Libya. The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied
The Reichstag after the battle of Berlin. Russia took Berlin on 2nd May 1945, a few days later the war in Europe officially ended on 8th May 1945. Picture taken 20th July 1945
Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the US Eighth Air Force struck at the source of the Luftwaffe during Mondays daylight operations, the 21st so far this month
Maria Parpetova who works as a mate aboard a passenger steamer on the Volga River in Russia during theSecond World War. September 1941
Wingate - Cochran Expedition, Burma Campaign, Wingate fighters (Major General Orde Charles Wingate, since killed) and Cochran Commandos (Colonel Philip Cochran)
The first British troops to enter Cherbourg were four RAF members of an Embarkation Unit. They entered the town with the Americans and took up their headquarters by the quayside
French civilians stand at attention and an American Army Gl salutes as the American and French flags are unfurled side by side in the centre of the city of Cherbourg
A 2000 lb armour-piercing bomb as used by the RAF. Although not particularly massive in size, the bomb was highly destructive and specially designed to pierce the heaviest armour. Circa 1940s
Twin engined Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber, now being produced in Australia. Mechanic seen here making adjustments to the Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine during production 1st January 1942
Women at John I Thorneycroft & Co, Hampton Launch Works, Platts Eyot have just put the finishing touches to a Whaleback boat. 25th April 1943
Wounded fighting men from Roehampton Hospital enjoying a trip to the local fair at Putney Heath, accompanied by their friends and families on a visiting day at the end of the Second World War
Birmingham factory worker Mrs Ann Cottrell of Theodore Street, Birmingham, aged 83, at work at a munitions factory in the West Midlands during the Second World War. 11th September 1941
Interior of the private chapel at Buckingham Palace following a German bombing raid. In the centre, its three legs in the air, is the overturned altar
Southampton after the blitz during the Second World War. 30th November 1940
The Clydebank Blitz, comprised two devastating Luftwaffe air raids on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank, Scotland on 13th and 14th March 1941
Female munition workers of a London war factory put on their make-up before staging a show to entertain girls of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)
After the blitzing of the City of London, Red Cross Street Fire Station, which had been badly burned externally and only saved from destruction by the determined efforts of the Station personnel
One of Britains X-Craft, a midget submarine. January 1944
Six soldiers back from Burma, all from Droitwich, Worcestershire, enjoy a dinner at the Royal Exchange public house back in Droitwich
Members of the Royal Australian Air Force enjoy a dip in the cool sea waters as a refresher from the intense midday heat during a rest period in the Philippines where they are assistant General
Barbara Willlamson of London, England, and Fleurette Pelly of Dublin, Ireland, both of the Womens Auxiliary Service in Burma
8th Army engineers begin the construction of a new bridge over the river Uniti outside Ravenna, Italy. December 1944
Crocodile variant of the Churchill tank with a flame thrower in place of the hull machine gun. Circa 1944
A Kittybomber Curtiss P-40 plane of Number 112 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, nicknamed the " Shark Squadron"
Heinkel 59 seaplane bearing red crosses shot down by Pilot Officer J. Allan of 54 Squadron over the Eastern Channel and alleged to have been used for mine - laying
The Wasp is a Universal Carrier fitted with a flamethrower. (Picture) Close-up of a " Wasp" flamethrower during Second World War. Circa 25th August 1944
Bomb damage to Elephant and Castle, London. 6th June 1942
Air raid damage to Barking Road in East London during the Blitz. 20th March 1941
A bombed dance hall in Putney High Street during the Blitz. 8th November 1943
A female butcher working in the South East of England Second World War. 2nd December 1940
The Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 also known as the Ack Pack, was a British design of flamethrower for infantry use in the Second World War
The burnt out shell of the Marshall and Snelgroves Department Store, New Street, Birmingham. The store was destroyed by fire after being hit by incendiary bombs during an air raid on the city in
The shattered remains of the Kardomah Cafe, Colmore Row, Birmingham, following an air raid on the city. 20th November 1940
Burnt out buses and debris strewn across the floor of the Highgate Road Bus Garage, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, following a direct hit during an air raid on the city. 21st November 1940
The new cap badge of the Parachute Regiment. May 1943
HMS Tigris was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham... The submarine had been adopted by the town of Newbury during the Second World War as part of Warship Week
French Submarine at Portland Bill. December 1945
