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The crew of one of the 12 Beauforts of No 42 Squadron preparing to attack the German cruiser Prinz Eugen. The cruiser was attempting to return to Germany for repairs following being torpedoed earlier
The crew of one of the Beauforts of No 42 Squadron which attacked the German cruiser Prinz Eugen off the coast of Norway, seen here giving their report to the squadrons intelligence officer
The Gunnery Officer and director layer in the Director Control Tower aboard the Polish Navy destroyer ORP Piorun (Thunderbolt) during a patrol in the Western Approaches. Circa February 1941
Mr Jack Wilson making his presentation at the Meat Traders Association in Liverpool. Caption suggests the ambulance is a gift, possibly from the mayor
Liverpool Home Guard, training. Merseyside A battle practice assault is rehearsed. Picture taken 15th September 1942
Two members of the home guard, silhouetted, in the doorway of a blitzed building. Lime Street Railway Station, Liverpool. Merseyside. Picture taken 27th September 1942
Royal Ordnance Factory. Private M Webster with Private Elsie Bolton, both of Liverpool, working on a cardboard carton manufacturing machine which turns out 1200 boxes a day
Bren Gunner and rifleman taking cover in a bombed house during training at army school. 18th March 1942
Reconnaissance exercise. Location unknown. London 28th September 1942
West African light battery in field service. 14th March 1942
Reconnaissance team in Iceland. 14th May 1942
Seven countries represented at a passing out of cadets in Cairo. From front to rear: Scotland, Cyprus, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, England, South Rhodesia, New Zealand, and South Africa
British 25 pounder being assisted out of sand. 17th July 1942
Mrs Davies welcomes Mrs Thompson and her children, to her home in Stonefield Road Huyton, Merseyside, where they are to lodge. Picture taken circa 1st May 1942 (not actual date on caption)
British camp in Iceland during Second World War. 22nd September 1940
Picture shows World War Two munitions worker Carol Gosling. Picture taken 27th December 1942
Airborne troops prepared to leave their Hotspur glider to go into action on landing during a training exercise at Netheravon. 13th October 1942
An agreement was signed today in London between Greece and Yugoslavia concerning the constitution of the Balkan Union Picture shows the scene in the foreign office during the signing of agreement
A wing commander briefs his pilots in the new speedier ways which are needed to fight in the air in World War Two. The American Mustang plane is seen as the new fast and deadliest war plane
Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Vagsoy and Maloy, seen here examining a field gun. 1st January 1942
Factory girls and Harrow schoolboys pick vegetables during the Second World War. 19th May 1942
Polish girls farming in Scotland during the Second World War. 8th September 1942
Civilians search through bombed houses for salvage in Bristol during Second World War. 10th June 1942
British ATS women in the Middle East, getting letters from home. November 1942
Malaya, Britain pursues "Scorched Earth"policyMalaya, Britain pursues " Scorched Earth" policy. Pursuing the " Scorched Earth" policy, the British forces in Malaya have burnt thousands of bales of rubber
Supplies from Great Britain and the USA arrive in the Middle East. Pictured, some of the latest supplies being unloaded. Tons of bully beef being loaded on to trucks on the quayside. November 1942
A convoy of British 25 pounders navigate a flooded section of road on their way up the front, Malaya. January 1942
A gunner of an RAF Regiment Anti-Aircraft Flight mans a 20mm Hispano-Suiza anti-aircraft gun from the back of a lorry, while securing a desert landing ground in Egypt
This night photographs show direct hits scored by British bombers on Tobruk jetties. 30th July 1942
Wrecked merchant vessels in Mersa Matruh harbour after accurate bombing by Allied forces. 29th November 1942
The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days in 1941, after Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila in Operation Sonnenblume against Allied forces in Libya
Benghaz bombing, the plan was to destroy the harbour and storage facilities at Benghazi and raid the airfield at Benina in Libya in coordination with the RAF
The British made landings on Madagascars west coast with the intention of moving inland from there. In September, the colonial capital of Tana or Antananarivo was captured by the British
The German ship Warenfels lies scuttled in the port of Diego Suarez. 25th May 1942
Operation Compass (also la battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large British military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War
The Kings African Rifles split into two columns and marched around the U of the valley and met Vichy troops in the rear and then ambushed them
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein
South African infantry search a ruined village for enemy soldiers near Bardia. 26th January 1942
Knocked out German armour remains on the battlefield after a tank engagement. 31st October 1942
British infantry pass a wrecked transport as they enter Benghazi during Second World War. 26th November 1942
South African troops charging a house in Sollum during the Second World War. 6th February 1942
Armoured cars of the South African Field Force pass ancient ruins in Cyrene during Second World War. 13th January 1942
A British outpost in a wadi in Libya during the Second World War. 4th February 1942
A sandstorm approaching the allied lines in Egypt during the Second World War. 15th October 1942
British tanks make their way through a town in Algeria during the Second World War. 25th January 1942
A heavy a battery manned by Indian troops in Singapore. (Picture) The men taking up their posts into the pits with all possible speed. 29th August 1942
British troops spend time with civilians in Central Cairo. 8th March 1942
8th Army transports moving up to a forward airfield under the famous Marble Arch, near El Agheila. 28th December 1942
