Forties Collection (page 2)

The occupation of Palmyra (Syria). Troops from a Bren gun-carrier searching the ruins of the old Roman colonnade. Circa 1941

Display of Remedial exercises given by the Royal Air Force before a large crowd at Seymour Hall, London during the Second World War

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

The 30th Corps memorial at Nienburg, a prancing black boar, sign of the corps since its formation, was unveiled by the corps commander, Lieut.Gen. Sir Brain Horrocks

The Commanding Officer and other crew of the submarine H. M. S. Seraph. Circa 1942
The Commanding Officer and other crew of the submarine H.M.S. Seraph. Circa 1942

Reconnaissance photograph taken after the RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28 / 29th
Reconnaissance photograph taken after the RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28/29th June and 3/4 July 1943. Pictured, the extensive and heavily damaged area at Kalk, on the east bank of the Rhine

Birmingham factory worker Edith Hill of 74 Boulton Road, Handsworth, at work setting cutting tools for machines which bore Ant-Aircraft shells at a factory in the West Midlands during the Second

British forces assault on Tilburg. Scenes near Tilburg, Holland as troops move up during Second World War. Circa 1940s

Loading a torpedo onto a Beaufort bomber at a Coastal Command station in Scotland. May 1941

Men of Grenadier Guards in Italy. Men of Grenadier Guards moving over a picturesque hump-back bridge generally known as Humpty Dumpty. Circa 1940s

Daylight attack on the power station at Pont A Vendin and the factories at La Basse in enemy occupied Northern France during the Second World War

World War Two - Second World War - The ruins after a German air raid on a North East of England town. Pictured is the bomb damaged Keyes Gardens on the Matthew Bank Estate, Jesmond, Newcastle

Children wait on the platform of East Ham railway station waiting for evacuation to the country. 2nd September 1939

Removing a 1 ton bomb from Brixton Hill in South London after an air raid during the Second World war. Circa 1941

The Sutton Coalfield Battalion of the Warwickshire Home Guard paraded for inspection. Captain Wilfrid Bigwood the Commanding Officer

A Sherman tank of a South African unit of the Eighth Army enters the city of Florence through the Porta Romano. August 1944

Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his outstanding valour in the Crete campaign. Circa 1941

Sergeant Roy Roberts of 62 Cardiff Road, Taffs Well, who played Second Row forward for Cardiff rugby team before the war, and Sergeant Tom Harvard of 21 Thomas Street, who played for Swinton

John Payne of the British Navy warship HMS Gurkha during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Burnt out shops in Spiceal Street, Birmingham following a heavy air raid on the city 10th April 1941

R. A. F. Bomber Command attack on the canal system in Dortmund. November 1944
R.A.F. Bomber Command attack on the canal system in Dortmund. November 1944

British Army Gunner S. R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading
British Army Gunner S.R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading, seen here in the back row of this group of Royal Artillery men in the Middle East during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Young Navy cadets in Gravesend 1944
Young Navy cadets training for the seas by scrubbing the decks of this steamer in Gravesend. Nearby will be HMS Gordon, a Navy school on land

Sapper Bob White takes a deep breath, and tries to slide a rope round a bomb. The bomb is buried at the back of a hotel in Canning Town, London. Pictured, Bob White takes another plunge. July 1949

Bethnal Green bombing incident. The damaged railway bridge in Grove Road, London. 13th June 1944

German submarine seen in Cardiff, just after the end of the War in Europe. It is the U - 1023. Commander H A L Marsham is seen on the vessel. Picture taken 16th June 1945

Liverpool, Merseyside, very near the end of the war. View from Paradise Street : In the distance is Queen Victoria Monument, and The National Bank The ground around it levelled for rebuilding

The Treasury, Whitehall, after being hit by a bomb. Circa 1940

VJ Day, a policeman carries a lost child in Trafalgar Square, London. 15th August 1945

World War Two Air Raid Damage Liverpool Bomb damage at Liverpool, civilians walking under damage power lines after the blitz © dm op222f

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

Rescue workers search through the rubble and wreckage of Warwick Court, Holborn, London for survivors, after the building suffered a direct hit from a V2 rocket

Bomb damage to Bridlington in the North East of England after Germain airmen of the Luftwaffe bombed the town in an air raid in July 1940

Scene showing the bomb damage in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk following an air raid by the German Luftwaffe. German planes dropped around 1

The crew of the Thunderbolt Submarine. Picture with the crew is First Lieutenant J Stevens. The HMS Thunderbolt was formally called HMS Thetis

On October 7 1941 bombs dropped in Rogerstone, Newport, Wales resulting in the loss of 18 lives. Here rescue workers and wardens attend the scene following the air raid by the German Luftwaffe

British Royal Navy submarine HMS Talisman returns home to HMS Forth, Holy Loch in Scotland, after a period of very successful service in Mediterranean waters

The first RAF Repair and Salvage Unit was working operationally within three days of landing on the shores of Normandy, Northern France

A fireman wearing the new National Fire Service cap and breast badge. The number takes the place of the name of the brigade going forwards. September 1941

The wreckage of a Heinkel bomber which crashed on to 25 Victoria Road, Clacton, killing the aircrafts crew and Frederick and Dorothy Gill who were home at number 25 when the plane crash landed

Capture of Monchengladbach. American tanks in the Square of the bomb-torn town of Monchengladbach. Circa 1940s

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

Damage to the Palm Court Restaurant, Selfridges, following an air raid attack which took place on 17th April. 20th April 1941

Residents of Vincent Street Balsall Heath, Birmingham, examine a bomb crater following an air raid on the city. 29th October 1940

The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England, by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. Due to the presence of Bristol Harbour and the Bristol Aeroplane Company

German Uboat U1060 seen here a grounded in the Norwegian Sea south-west of Bronnoysund on the northern tip of the skerry Fleina in the Vegafjord, in position 65.24, 3N, 11.59, 5E

The Winged Boot - the badge of the Late Arrivals Club, Which is an exclusive body of R. A
The Winged Boot - the badge of the Late Arrivals Club, Which is an exclusive body of R.A.F. pilots or members of crews who have had to abandon their aircraft either in the air or on the ground as a

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