Europe Collection (#12)

Landing craft laden with troops approaching the Lofoten Islands. March 1941

HMS Cossack (close to the wreck of the German transport in foreground) in the Narvik Fjord engaging the shore batteries at close range. 13th April 1940

Narvik Harbour. Cossack and Forester (left, centre) and German transports sunk during the attack by Second Destroyer Flotilla. April 1940

Reconniassance photograph taken from a Spitfire of 542 Squadronl over Berlin, Germany after heavy night raids by Bomber Command aircraft on 23/24 August, 31 August/1 September and 3/4 September 1943

A 8th Army casualty being loaded into a motor ambulance, close to the River Moro just outside Ortona, Italy. 16th December 1943

Lined up on each side of the white line on the flight deck of HMS Emperor waiting for the word " Go". Hellcat fighter bombers with wings stored a short while before they took off to attack

A British soldier of 3rd Division makes friends with a young French couple and their baby in a ruined street in Caen following the fall of the town into allied hands. 10th July 1944

Scene in the town of Ede. Holland, following the entry and liberation of the town by soldiers of the 49th Infantry Division and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division. 17th April 1945

Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Essex Regiment street fighting in the heart of Arnhem. 14th April 1945

August 1945. Peacetime for Europe. Picture shows the Berlin, and the ATS (The Auxiliary Territorial Service) on Bank Holiday

British Soldiers attack Weeze. British troops fighting their way south eastward between the Ms and the Rhine entered the important German centre of Weeze on 2nd March 1945

Hamburg in ruins. Germany. The RAF and USaF bombers practically obliterated Hamburg in July and August 1943. These pictures issued in November 1943, show this beyond doubt

To celebrate 21st Army Groups victory over their German enemies, a salvo of 21 rounds each from 24 3.7 a guns was fired at Field Marshal Montgomerys HQ at 3pm on Saturday 5th May 1945

RAF Bomb damage in captured Hanover, Germany. The machsee large lake south of Hanover which has been camouflaged with floating wood slats, strung together, to simulate earth

The rail tracks at Hamm, Germany. This stretch of railway was a regular target for the Royal Air Force, during World War Two

British 8th Corps in Lubeck celebrate the surrender of German forces. 8th May 1945

Lieutenants A Sten, (Burnley, Lancashire), of the field regiment, Royal Artillery, synchronises his watch with the Brigade Headquarters over phone, prior to a barrage on Pinwe. Circa January 1945

Royal Artillery battery fire against the Japanese in Pinwe. Circa January 1945

Troops of the 15th Scottish Division cleared the town of Uelzen of April 19th, 1945. Picture shows troops of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. April 1945

90th Infantry Division mortar crew fires high explosive (HE) shells into fortified German positions along the Moselle River region, near Halstroff, France. December 1944

German civilians hurry past a burning building in Bamberg, that is on the verge of collapse. April 1945

British troops occupying Kleve eliminating snipers. Circa February 1945

German male civilians of military age in the town of Uerdingen are assembled by Military Police of the 9th US Army for identification. March 1945

Russian 203mm M1931 B4 Howitzer. 13th September 1941

The key point town of Goch, now cleared of the Germans by British troops is being subjected to shellfire by the retreating enemy. Pictured, a Bren carrier dashing away after a near miss

By order of the Military Government already established in Krefeld, Germany, civilians are turning in all sorts of weapons. March 1945

A British infantryman takes cover under the ruins of a building in Kleve, as a tank machine gunner, further down the street, fires at German snipers. February 1945

The first British Military Wedding in Brussels, since the Liberation of the city took place in Christs Church, between Lieutenant Stanley Rodwell of the Corps of Military Police who lives at 9

Picture showing individual gunners who helped support the British infantry in the capture of the Dutch village of Zetten on 21st January 1945

Captain H. H. Davies, Royal Artillery, of Birkenhead, checks looted pictures found in
Captain H.H. Davies, Royal Artillery, of Birkenhead, checks looted pictures found in the house of an SS officer which had been looted from Holland. August 1945

The Williams family in liberated Guernsey. The family including 6 children had a very hard time during the occupation. May 1945

Representatives of Admiral Doenitz and Field Marshal Keitel visit 2nd Army HQ and 21 Army HQ to ask for surrender terms for the German military forces. They were Gen

After surrounding the town of Uelzen troops of the 15th Scottish Division cleared it on April 19th, after days of stiff street fighting

On the Western Front, the radio provides the link with home and airmen, serving in Belgium and Holland eagerly listen in especially if they are stationed at advanced airfields where no other news

Two British soldiers chat to German women by a river bridge. June 1945

Germans Surrender to Montgomery. At 6. 25pm on 4th May, in an ordinary Army tent at 21st
Germans Surrender to Montgomery. At 6.25pm on 4th May, in an ordinary Army tent at 21st Army Group HQ on Luneburg Heath, 5 German plenipotentiaries in the presence of Field Marshall Montgomery put

Deep snow on the Eighth Army Front near Castel Frentano on the Italian Front during the Second World War. Bombardier Holt of Watford spots for enemy planes through his binoculars

By the evening of February 21st, 1945, British troops had cleared the German town of Goch of all its defenders with the exception of a few isolated snipers. Germans continued to shell the town

Major General Sir Ernest M. Cowell, Director of Medical Service, AFH Algiers, visits the Fifth Army at the Anzio beach-head in Italy to inspect medical units in the field

Some of the 525 Norwegians of the island of Soroy, who had been living in caves in the mountains of their island to avoid German patrols, were rescued by four destroyers of the home fleet

"Theres some wiring to be done... "And here are seen men of 1 Battalion
" Theres some wiring to be done...." And here are seen men of 1 Battalion Rifle Brigade out on a patrol near Sittard 27th December 1944

A British Sherman tank pauses for a moment as a Dutch civilian lifts his two children away from danger during fighting in Hertogenbosch, 27 October 1944

Reconnaissance photograph taken by 541 PRU Squadron over Hamburg, Germany after major raids by aircraft of Bomber Command on the nights of 27/28 July and 29/30 July 1943

British assault troops land on Walcheren at dawn on 1 November 1944 the first stage of Operation Infatuate. The landings were supported by fire from British warships

A German woman wears shorts for her work as they recover coal from the River Elbe. 3rd September 1945

A section of "D"Company 4th K. S. L. I. clearing a street in the town of
A section of " D" Company 4th K.S.L.I. clearing a street in the town of Brochterbeck. 6th April 1945

Demolition by Royal Canadian Engineers of a wireless station in the Svalbard Islands during the Spitzbergen Raid. 3rd September 1941

Infantry, guns and trucks 0f the 15th Scottish Division advance through Kleve, 16 February 1945

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