Forties Collection (page 4)

National Fire Service District Officer Ronnie Greene with his wife leaving Buckingham having been awarded the MBE for which he organised

A Bren Carrier being guided through barbed wire during the first stages of the offensive against the Axis Forces in Libya, North Africa in World War Two. December 1941

MV Rapana, one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch / Shell oil tankers converted to become a
MV Rapana, one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship)

Aftermath of a V2 rocket attack on Kew, London. Workmen search the bottom of a crater after the attack. 12th September 1944

View of the village church in Aveton Gifford, Devon which was destroyed by Focke Wulf bombers of the German Luftwaffe alongside the vicarage (background on the right)

Scene showing the bomb damage to St. Marks church in Sheffield following an air raid by the German Luftwaffe. The last supper artwork remained in tact amongst the ruins of the devastated building

Scene showing the bomb damage in Orford Place, Norwich, Norfolk following an air raid by the German Luftwaffe on the city on the evening of 27th April 1942

Five people in Exeter owe their lives to the Morrison shelter. Their two story house received a direct hit and completely buried the shelter during the " Baedeker" raid on the city

Women of the Auxiliary Territorial service (ATS) in the North West of England during the Second World War. 19th May 1942

Lady Leverhulme, vice-chairman of the National Association of the Womens Junior Air Corps (WJAC), inspecting the Hoylake unit of the corps at the County School Grounds, West Kirby

2000 Vickers Armstrong Aircraft workers in Manchester protesting against proposed redundancies. 7th February 1945

Picture taken when the new Governor of Ceylon, His Excellency Sir Henry Monk-Mason Moore, CSMG, and Lady Moore, visited Kandy, the ancient Royal City of Ceylon

A Heinkel He 111 which crashed near Whitby. 3rd February 1940

A prototype Cromwell tank is put through its pace for King George VI and the Queen at an un-named Midlands tank factory. 26th February 1942

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

Maisy Nicholas helps fit a wireless aerial to a Thorneycroft whaleback boat at John I Thorneycroft & Co, Hampton Launch Works, Platts Eyotduring the Second World War. 8th November 1943

Stalin and Churchill in the conference room at Yalta during the Second World War. 4th February 1945

Liberated POWs at Stalag 11B near Fallingbostel, 16 April 1945. The men in this photograph were all captured at Arnhem in Circa September 1944

A training exercise at the Merchant Navy School, teaceing rookies how to shovel coal and clean the furnaces with stones instead of coal

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

Corporal Arthur Toman (note to editors spelling hard to read - reads as Toman
Corporal Arthur Toman (note to editors ** spelling hard to read - reads as Toman, though cannot see the name Toman on Forces Records) makes friend with a baby in Caen, France

Hyde Park, London. Canadians play baseball in London, May 1944. Trams from from number 34 Coy and number 41 Coy. Picture shows a tense moment in the game with L/Cpt M Duck (41 Coy) at the bat

Picture shows Daily Mirror War Correspondent, T. E. A Healy
Picture shows Daily Mirror War Correspondent, T.E.A Healy. Location unknown, though TEA Healy did once join the 8th Army on man" uvre

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

Workmen filling a crater outside Greys department store, Bull Street, Birmingham as customers look on, following an air raid on the city. 25th October 1940

Dress shop opposite St James in New Street, Birmingham damaged during an air raid on the city. 25th October 1940

The clear up of the Kent Street Baths, Birmingham after the building suffered extensive damage following a raid on the city. 27th October 1940

Firemen dampening down fires in Moseley Street, Birmingham the morning after a heavy incendiary raid on the city 26th October 1940

Four Land Army Girls are mad with Mr. John Morgan. The Socialist MP for Doncaster, Yorks, put his foot in it when he told Parliament how these four girls had reclaimed 300 acres of wasteland at

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

Billowing smoke marks the end of the ammunition ship Mary Luckenbach, seen from the deck of the carrier HMS Avenger, during convoy PQ 18 to Russia. 13th September 1942

A German U-boat sinking in the Kattegat after an attack by Mosquitos of R. A. F
A German U-boat sinking in the Kattegat after an attack by Mosquitos of R.A.F. Coastal Command. The aircraft is led by Squadron Leader A H Gunnis, DFC, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire

Children from London evacuated to South Wales. October 1940

The Tivoli Cinema in Weston Super Mare. Somerset and Avon area. On the nights of June 28 and 29, 1942 Weston endured " hell on earthO as 52 high-explosive bombs and more than 10

A wrecked bungalow in Clevedon, The South West of England, in the Bristol and Somerset area. The house took a double hit, enough to blow the front door off where the 5 occupants could escape

Kitchen workers in the West of England Aeroplane Works. Chefs around a large tub of Tomato Soup. 2, 400 meals a day are made for the workers

The bombed interior of Temple Church. Bristol. Somerset and Avon area. The church was bombed on 24th November 1940. Bristol was Englands fifth most heavily bombed city

Driver Don Brinton of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) Air Dispatch Service, dressed in the full kit of the service which includes battle dress, roll top pullover, flying suit lined with fur

Damage to a childrens hospital. (Name not known) Bristol, during World War Two. Somerset and Avon area. Though we cannot confirm the name of the hospital

Pegu, the vital road and rail junction 50 miles north of Rangoon, Burma on the wide Pegu river has fallen to the Allied Fourteenth Army in their sweep Southwards to the Burma coast. Picture shows: R

Australian troops land at Jacquinot Bay in New Britain, Papua New Guinea during the battle in the Far East in the Second World War

British Army private serving on the front line in Burma during the Second World War. April 1945

Burma DUKWs (known as Ducks) take supplies and reinforcements from the Chindwin River to forward British troops driving on Mandalay, Burma during the Second World War

First members of the WaF in Berlin, Germany at the end of the Second World War in Europe. Section officer P. hack of Palmers Green, London and Section Officer H

Sgt. Daniel Hochstatter is rescued by a British Air / Sea rescue launch after his PBY
Sgt. Daniel Hochstatter is rescued by a British Air/Sea rescue launch after his PBY Catalina was shot down. April 1945

Russian Bomber crew. June 1942

The so called "Tobacco factory"at Carocetto, Italy
The so called " Tobacco factory" at Carocetto, Italy, scene of bitter fighting during the bridgehead battle, fell to British troops on 28th May 1944

The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat, a landing craft used extensively in amphibious landings in World War Two

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