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Flying nurses of the United States Army Air Force (USaF) 9th Troop Carrier Command who are specially picked and trained. Their Job is to fly to the forward areas
The United States Army Church team conduct afternoon service at Balham Congregational Church during the Second World War. Picture shows: Gordon Farndell, from Chicago
64 men from the the Queen Mary Hospital in Roehampton were entertained to a lunch tea and orchestra with variety turns as well at Potters Bar Hotel
The service men and AT patients at the Mill Hill Emergency Hospital found that Nurse Joan Simes had a good profile, so she poses for the clay modellers who are being taught craft work which is part
Wounded soldier Joe Miller at home with his mother after the Second World War. 23rd December 1945
A member of the Home Guard looks north across the River Thames, towards St Pauls Cathedral wreathed in flame and smoke as thousands of incendiary bombs are dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of
Major General Jim Gavin, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division in Belgium, walks down La-Ne where troops of the 508th Regiment wiped out a battalion of attacking SS troops during
While the gaping bow doors of amphibious assault craft spew forth more men and supplies, US troops and Coast Guardsmen fill sand bags for gun emplacements on Leyte Island in the central Philippines
American troops of the 34th Infantry Division landing on the beaches at Surcouf, twenty miles east of Algiers, 9th November 1942
Fighter support planes circle round a New Zealand column in the Western Desert during the battle of Egypt. August 1942
St DunstanOs men are now working in our aircraft factories. In the foreground, left to right, are Private Ernest Callow, R.W
British Warships and bombers and "Commandos"were landed under cover of smokeBritish Warships and bombers and " Commandos" were landed under cover of smoke screens'. Norwegian troops also took part in the operation which resulted in the destruction of 15
On the Adriatic sector of the Eighth Army front north of Faenza, Italy, Lieutenant G. Sherman, of Sutton, Surrey, in charge of a mortar platoon
An RAF Typhoon aircraft patrolling the skies over a convoy after taking off from an airfield in Normandy, Northern France. July 1944
Soldier taking advantage of cover as he fires his gun in a South Wales training exercise during the Second World War. October 1941
Caldari, which occupies a strategic positions on the Ortona- Orsogna lateral road and railway, was occupied by the Indian and Home County infantry men serving With the 8th Army
Combined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U. KCombined Operations raid on Dieppe on 19th August 1942. Canadian and U.K. Special Service Troops carried out the raid with a detachment of a U.S
A sub-machine gun in one hand and a grenade in the other, a US soldier marches at the head of his men in pursuit of Japanese defenders of New Britain Island the Southwest Pacific
Men of the Royal Northumberland fusiliers have recently undergone practice exercises at beach landing on invasion lines. Small boats are brought closely into shore
British troops continue to land on the beach-heads of Normandy, Northern France to support their comrades who made the crossing the previous day as part of the Allied D-Day landings
British and Canadian troops enter the liberated town of Falaise, Northern France. The Falaise Pocket was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy
Private Morris of Acton, London, part of the British Airborne troops in Holland, on guard at Divisional Headquarters. The Airborne flag, bearing Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek mythology
Private J. Connington of Selby, Yorkshire fighting with the 1st Allied Airborne Army in Holland with his Sten Gun. 20th September 1944
Member of the Army Reconnaissance Corps. 27th September 1942
While many people thin the Army is training for defensive action against the enemy, British Army Commanders have other ideas
For month after month of intensive blitz Malta showed the world how bravely she could " take it". Now backed by men of all three services, Army, RAF and Fleet Air Arm
Canadian soldier Corporal Andy Mouflier from Winnipeg, fires a peephole in the wall of a shattered building during training exercises in England before the Allied invasion of Northern France
British paratrooper patrol in Oosterbeek, Netherlands on the look out for German enemy snipers during the Second World War. 20th September 1944
British forces entered Addis Ababa on April 5th, having advanced 1800 miles in less than 60 days. Pictured, Transvaal regiment forces after the liberation of Addis Ababa. Circa May 1941
A Cromwell tank being tested in Britain. July 1944
British tanks in the Western Desert. Pictured, these tanks (25 tons, 19 ft. length, Crew of 4. 1 two-pounder machine gun. Speed 15 mph) going up to the forward position in the Western Desert
At dawn on 22nd October 1944, the British Second Army struck westwards from Oss towards the important town and rail junction of Hertogenbosch, some 12 miles away
Bren gun carriers move through France. November 1939
Royal Tank Regiment training in the South of England. Pictured, a line of tanks crossing a common during an exercise. July 1940
Men of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards manning one of the thousands of blockhouses built around the coast of Britain and elsewhere as part of the coastal defences against possible German invaders
On the Italian warfront the Germans shell Allied positions with propaganda leaflets. British and American soldiers collect the leaflets as souvenirs which do not weight their kits heavily
Training drill at a coastal battery on the East Coast. Circa September 1940
New cap and badge button approved for the British Army Catering Corps during World War II. May 1941
To counter possible attempts by the enemy to land troops on Scottish lochs, by seaplanes, armed motor boat patrols have been established
Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg, Royal Engineers and CREs embark on a landing ship tank from Hamburg, Germany bound for Norway
Sergeant H. Clinker of Bexleyheath, and his gun crew, eat their Christmas dinner around their gun. The sit amid the rubble
A general intensive training of British Army units in Northern Ireland is being undertaken to prepare them for offensive operations in the event of invasion
Canadian soldiers tend to French Refugees in Normandy shortly after the successful Allied landings during the Second World War. Many of the French refugees had not eaten for three or more days
Picture showing how Britain prepared a fiery reception for the Germans had they attempted an invasion. Oil Defences capable of setting the English Channel ablaze were evolved - billowing smoke
One of Britains secret war achievements- the Military Port. After the fall of France in 1940 the South and East Coast British ports were virtually closed to large ocean going ships
British Army soldiers in training, practicing invasion exercises. April 1942
A collection of some 60 paintings by outstanding Canadian artists and graphically illustrating Canadians in all branches of the service, will be on display for the first time at the National Gallery
Signing the Armistice between the Soviet Union, United States of America and Great Britain on one hand and Romania on the other in Moscow on 12th September 1944
