1943 Collection

Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC 617 Squadron June 1943 The members of The Dambuster Squadron were at Buckingham Palace where W/C Guy Gibson recieved the VC medal and bar to D.S.O

A Typhoon makes a pancake landing, on the edge of a rock strewn shore near Torquay in Devon. There were slight injuries to the pilot but no more

Scene of destruction in Caroline Street, Kingston Upon Hull after an air raid on the city on the night of 24th June 1943

Reconnaissance photograph taken after he RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28 / 29th
Reconnaissance photograph taken after he RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28/29th June and 3/4th July 1943. Pictured, in this area of heavy industrial damage

Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, visits Liverpool Docks, Saturday 13th November 1943, from left to right, Mr M Fallon (aged 76) 56 years dock service, Ernest Bevin, Alderman Simon Mahon

Bomb damage to Chichester following a tip and run raid on the city by Luftwaffe fighter bombers. 10th February 1943

Aerial photograph of damage to the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg. 17th August 1943

WW2 bomb damage in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, East Anglia. June 1943

Damage to housing in Fulham, London, following an air raid on the city, carried out by the Luftwaffe as a revenge attack to the RAF bombing of Berlin. 3rd March 1943

Leading Aircraftman Gordon Pendleton, an R. A. F. pilot who won his wings at Uplands
Leading Aircraftman Gordon Pendleton, an R.A.F. pilot who won his wings at Uplands aerodrome outside of Ottowa. 1st May 1943

Alghero Airfield raided by R. A. F. bombers during the Second World War
Alghero Airfield raided by R.A.F. bombers during the Second World War. 16th June 1943

The Gnome and Rhone aircraft factories in Le Mans, France being bombed by 8th Air Force Flying Fortresses. 6th July 1943

Britain builds a fast new 12, 000 ton cargo ship. Furness shipbuilding yard, Middlesborough. The new cargo ship Empire Chieftain is designed for the purpose of transporting the special kind of cargo

Children from London evacuated to South Wales. October 1940

Small ships pool. The amateur crew on the boat-deck in port. 13th August 1943

Bomber Command planning a large scale R. A. F. operation. Picture taken circa 17th November
Bomber Command planning a large scale R.A.F. operation. Picture taken circa 17th November 1943

R. A. F. ground crew clean the guns of a bomber. Pilots are ready to praise
R.A.F. ground crew clean the guns of a bomber. Pilots are ready to praise the ground staff and say there would be no raids if the guns weren t cleaned and the planes regularly checked

Men of the East Anglia Royal Observer Corps at sea with the Royal Navy. Picture taken 23rd April 1943

Photo-reconnaissance image taken by 541 Squadron, RAF over Stettin, Germany, following the long-range attack by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 20/21 April 1943

Bomb damage to the Focke Wulf plant in Marienburg. October 1943

Heavy bomb damage at Stettin after RAF attack on 20 / 21 April 1943
Heavy bomb damage at Stettin after RAF attack on 20/21 April 1943. Pictured, the first reconnaissance photograph the AG Der Chemischer Produkten Fabriken Pommerensdorf-Milch (Chemical Plant)

Front line French class for R. A. F. in Tunisia. 9th March 1943
Front line French class for R.A.F. in Tunisia. 9th March 1943

The Dutch Submarine Returns to Britain. O 19, laid down as K XIX, was an O 19-class submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy that saw service during World War II

The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Duncan French, accompanied by Lieut-General A I MacDougall and Colonel J B McKaig at an inspection of army Cadets who mainly belong to Liverpool

A Kittybomber Curtiss P-40 plane of Number 112 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, nicknamed the " Shark Squadron"

A bombed dance hall in Putney High Street during the Blitz. 8th November 1943

The new cap badge of the Parachute Regiment. May 1943

Leigh Light a powerful carbon arc searchlight of 20 inches used for spotting U-boats on the surface at night fitted to a Liberator aircraft of Royal Air Force Coastal Command. Circa 1943

Members of the Army from all commands are to broadcast tomorrow. Major Basil Brown (centre) and Captain. Frederick G Lloyd, a well known producer of the Main Of The Mountains

Parachute packers of the W. R. N. S. testing a parachute at a British Naval Air Station
Parachute packers of the W.R.N.S. testing a parachute at a British Naval Air Station. November 1943

British U-class submarine prepares to go on patrol, North Sea, April 1943

Womens Land Army Girls, womans work is never done, especially when a girl needs a stitch in the seat of her pants, its her number one priority, October 1943

Female workers, possibly munition workers on their break time. Far right is Annie Rowley, eating her boiled egg. Her three colleagues look at her in amazement. Picture taken 1st February 1943

Taken during an attack by Bostons of the Lorraine French Squadron on the Mur De Bretagne Transformer Station near Querledan Brittany

The Lancashire Fusiliers in Burma. In the swamps and jungle of Burma the Lancashire Fusiliers are fighting with courage. (Picture) Troops at a jungle cookhouse. 22nd March 1943

Huge underground ammunition depot, Southern Command. (Picture) Storage bays for shells in the completed section of the underground ammunition depot. 23rd November 1943

Picture taken in the British Section of Berlin, at a railway station. Picture shows daily life for the local people who freeze in the snow and carry their belongings around with them

Royal Air Force Marine Branch 67-ft Thornycroft High Speed Launch HSL 2586 seen here being put through her speed trials. 15th May 1943

The Italian seaplane carrier Giuseppe Miraglia and submarines lying at anchor in St Pauls Bay, Malta during the Second World War following the surrender of the Italian fleet under the terms of

R. A. F. ground crews clear up wreckage inside a bomb shattered hanger at an airfield near
R.A.F. ground crews clear up wreckage inside a bomb shattered hanger at an airfield near Salerno, following the success of Operation Avalanche, the allied invasion of mainland Italy

Picture shows a side view of a Hawker Typhoon in flight. The worlds fastest fighter plane in April 1943. Google images suggests this plane could be ()

Bomb damage at Tresillian Terrace, Cardiff. May 1943

Two young Blackawton lads helping with the evacuation of the village. Circa November 1943

Local farmer with his steam tractor engine and threshing machine seen here leaving Slapton at the beginning of the evacuation. Circa November 1943

Jam production in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Britains Jam for civilians and troops is an all the year round occupation

In pre-war days Mr C H Sexs blacksmith shop in Surrey used to make ornamental and fancy ironwork. Now all this is stopped and he spends his time on more essential work, shoeing horses

A nurse who was a dancer shows the children an exercise at the Thames Side war nursery. This is the biggest nursery of its kind in London

WW2 Norwich Air Raid Bomb Damage June 1943 Church sevice in bombed out remains of Norwich Cathedral Norwich was bombed as part of the Baedeker Raids against historic

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