France Collection (page 8)

RAF Bomber Command attack upon the railway yards at Aulnoye in German occupied Northern France on 27th - 28th April 1944. Photo shows

This target in Chambly, France, claimed to be one of the most important and up-to-date permanent way depots in Europe, was the object of RAF Bomber Command attack on the night of 1st - 2nd May, 1944

Great damage was done by the recent precision attacks of RAF Bomber Command on the important French railway installations at Amiens, Le Mans, and Trappes

On the night of 29th - 30th April 1944, RAF Bombers attacked the Clermont Ferrand/Aulnat Airfield in German occupied France

RAF Bombing Raid on Rouen Shipyards in France during the Second World War. Photo shows; Bombs bursting in the shipyards in the course of an attack by Boston Aircraft of RAF Bomber Command

Teaching the baby to walk in the grounds of the camp for refugees in Normandy. Many citizens fled from the German crossing the front line to freedom. Circa July 1944

Aerial photographs taken after an attack on the railway marshalling yards at Rouen, France by Flying Fortress bombers of the United States Army Air Force tell their own story of the accuracy

A daylight photograph taken by the RAF after the attack on the Matford Motor Works at Poissy near Paris, France on 2nd April 1942

Reconnaisnce photographs reveal the extent of the damage inflicted by aircraft of RAF Bomber Command on the night of 29th - 30th May 1942 when they attacked a group of factories at Gennevilliers

Life begins again in Paris, a french girl with an R. A. F. officer
Life begins again in Paris, a french girl with an R.A.F. officer. 3rd September 1944

The Mayor of La Delivrande, M. Jean-Merie Saliou inspecting the Pipe Band of the 5th Black Watch Scottish regiment at a football match held in the town between a British and the local French team

During daylight aircraft of RAF Bomber Command attacked the railway station and sidings at Hazebrouck in enemy occupied France

Aerial photograph taken by an RAF reconnaissance aircraft, showing damage caused after a raid by British Royal Navy and Army commando units on the Nazi held docks at St Nazaire in occupied Northern

Whilst the Allies heavy bomber offensive is striking deeper and deeper into Germany and German-occupied Europe, the RAFs home-based light bombers are carrying on a campaign directed against

Two little girls being hoisted to the platform to present a bouquet of roses to a French War Correspondent who had addressed the enthusiastic crowd in Bayeux following the towns liberation by Allied

An improvised raft of doors and scrap wood carries civilians and Royal Engineers across the canal near Tilburg until a pontoon ferry arrived, following the assault on the Dutch town

British RAF bombers attack Le Havre in German occupied Northern France during the Second World War. Aircraft of RAF bomber command

Daylight attack on Fives / Lille steel and engineering works
Daylight attack on Fives/ Lille steel and engineering works, Lille in occupied Northern France. Thia target was successfully attacked, on July 6th.1941. PHOTO SHOWS: Annotation: 1

Photographic reconnaissance after a recent attack by Bomber Command, RAF on a tank farm at Gien in Occupied France furnishes an excellent example of the accuracy of British bombing against military

Mrs Le Grand of Southhampton spent a few hours in the shops and markets of Paris to see how goods and prices compared with wartime Britain. (Picture) A large pile of cauliflowers in a street market

A photograph taken during a daylight raid by 26 De Havilland Mosquito B Mark IVs of Nos. 105 and 139 Squadron RAF on railway workshops at Tours, France. 18th February 1943

Roadside repairs. Staff Sergeant Arthur Bishop from Shepherds Bush, London, in a spot of bother having lost his button, is having it sown back on by Madeleine Louvel. Picture taken in Normandy, 1944

A German petrol dump hidden in the woods, found in the Forest de Evreux near the River Seine in Northern France as Allied Forces continue to fight in Normandy following the D-Day landings

First pictures of the huge 800 strong bomber attack on the east exit road from Falaise, Normandy six weeks after D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944

Queen Alexandrias Nursing Sisters at work behind the front line in the Caen-Tilly sector. Advanced casualty clearing station nearest to the front line

Military police looking at a signpost in the Normandy village of Courseulles which points the distance to Caen and Paris. France. June 1944

Sheep left in Caumont, France. August 1944

Free French forces. November 1944

Marie (Cinderella) Antoinette lives in a farm next to an RAF airstrip in Normandy. For her confirmation at the local church she was dressed in a frock made of parachute silk with shoes specially

Army equipment exhibition in Lyon following D-Day. 1944

British troops going to the front line shortly after D-Day in June 1944

German woman hangs washing by Siegfried Line, France. Circa 1944

Scene from D-Day. 6th June 1944

RAF official war artist Walter Thomas Monnington busy on a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Rumbold (of the Typhoon Squadron) in the garret of a house that stands on a captured German House

A baths the first luxury a Tommy looks forward to when taking a few hours off from the front line. Pictures, Tommies waiting for a turn in the tub in Bayeux, Normandy. July 1944

British and German Red Cross Men meet, France. August 1944

British soldiers keep themselves warm and have some food during a break in fighting, France. Circa 1944

Beer being loaded onto a plane for the troops in France. August 1944

On the German frontier. American traffic pouring over the frontier. September 1944

British advance in Normandy. Bulldozers clearing debris after entering Faubourg de Vaucelles from Caen. France, July 1944

RAF officers touring the city, Paris, France. Circa 1944

Driver Bert Scott from Tooting in France. July 1944

RAF personnel off duty in France. September 1944

Wireless telegraph for the infantry. 12th March 1940 Infantryman with the BEF in France, equipped with portable wireless sets for radio telephony

A 25 Pounder shoot. 16th January 1940 Although the war in France still remains a stalemate, as far as the BEF is concerned

Anti tank gun being unloaded from a transport truck at the double to ready for action at a moments notice. 28th November 1939

The Royal East Kent Regiment serving with the BEF in France. Soldiers placing bails of straw around a sentry post whilst changing the guard. Circa April 1940

Fairey Battles of 226 Squadron seen here being serviced in the fields closed to Faux-Villecerf, France Circa 16th May 1940

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