Munitions Collection

Successful removal of an unexploded bomb in Hull, North England after the Second World War. Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal pose with the weapon. Circa 1941

Discovery of an unexploded parachute mine in Hull after the Second World War. Navy and Army bomb disposal squads moving the parachute mine from the dredger to a waiting truck. May 1949

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 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

Removal of of a 250 pound unexploded World War Two bomb at Fenners Works in Marfleet, East Yorkshire by Bomb Disposal experts of the Royal Engineers. Circa 1941

Discovery of a 500 pound unexploded American bomb in King George docks, Hill after the Second World War. Bomb disposal squad clear the danger. April 1948

Members of the Bomb disposal squad measuring the length of a time delayed bomb taken from a shop in Brixton Hill, South London during the Second World War. Circa 1940

At an experimental gunnery camp in Manorbier, Wales, members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) are doing very secret work operating Kine- Theodolite instruments which record the burst of

Thousands of 3. 7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory
Thousands of 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory somewhere in England during the Second World War. August 1941

Jacqueline Darcy, twenty three year old of the French Resistance (third right), who forged more than three hundred identity cards

An Avro Lancaster bomber which has been frequently flown as a Master bomber pictured after completing its 100th operation. She is Lancaster A-Able and is pictured with members of the ground crew

About two years ago, men and women of the Barnet National Fire Service (NFS) were turning out in their off duty time, at the rate of many hundreds a week

Picture shows Mrs Annie Kelly, boring a shaft of submarine. She is the wife of a crane driver in the same factory. Picture taken in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England. Picture taken 4th October 1944

Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Girls was work on the machines at a Royal Ordnance Factory Engineering factory in Cardiff, Wales during the Second world War. June 1941

A Royal Air Force officer addressing workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

An American Sherman tank on the British front in Normandy, Northern France, mounting a 17 pounder British gun. The conversion has been made in the United Kingdom

Soldiers manning one of the thousands of coastal defence guns against possible German invaders somewhere in England during the Second World War. August 1940

Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots in training exercises during the Second World War. Picture shows: Wheeling out the torpedo to be fitted to their aircraft. March 1941

The RAF 12000 lb Tallboy bomb, the first completely streamlined heavy bomb to be used during the second World War and the forerunner to the 22, 00 lb " Grand Slam" bomb which followed

Dakota transport planes being unloaded on a captured airfield in southern Italy during the Second World War. In the foreground is the skeleton of a burnt out Italian CR42 single seat fighter plane

How to extinguish an incendiary bomb. If a stirrup pump is unavailable, a half-filled sand bag should be held up to protect the face and upper body

How to extinguish a fire bomb. A man crouches in the doorway of a smoke filled room and aims his stirrup pump around the edge of the door in an attempt to extinguish the fire. January 1941

A veteran P-40 Warhawk fighter bomber Group under Major General Edwin J Houses 12th Air Support Command and a spearhead of General Montgomerys drive through the desert, dropped its 1, 000

The initial stage of production of a British ten-ton bomb. The bomb is cast round the framework on which rope made from wood shavings is wound. Circa 1940s

Royal Ordnance Factory. Private M Webster with Private Elsie Bolton, both of Liverpool, working on a cardboard carton manufacturing machine which turns out 1200 boxes a day

A corner of the 800 acres Royal Ordnance factory and estate at Kirkby which the Government has offered to Liverpool Corporation for development as a new industrial estate. Circa 1945

Picture shows World War Two munitions worker Carol Gosling. Picture taken 27th December 1942

Women of the WRNS doing skilled jobs such as carpenters and fitters at a Royal Naval Depot show themselves capable craftswomen. Photo shows: A maintenance worker on the turning machine

f all the man-sized jobs women have tackled during the war, none is perhaps bigger than that undertaken by Mrs Taylor of Bury, Lancashire

In a Ministry of Supply filling factory, shells are cleaned up after the explosive has been put in during the Second World War

A factory doing vital work on the sten gun for the Ministry of Supply employs workers of many nations; British and allies and refugees from Axis countries

In a bright, airy shop in a Ministry of Supply factory, fuses are assembled by girls working alongside male inspectors during the Second World War. June 1941

Working on two shifts in the twenty four hours, the entire Fire Brigade at a large Ministry of Supply factory in the South of England are assembling rifles instead of idly waiting for the fire alarm

Defences of the East Coast of Great Britain during the second World War. Picture shows the battery firing. July 1940

Round the coasts of Britain a ceaseless watch is maintained by men of the Royal Artillery Coastal Defence Regiment.Shore based RA personnel work in co-operation with units of theRoyal Navy

A British cross-Channel gun in action on the South Coast of England, during the Second World War. These guns are manned by gunners of the Royal Marines

A gun from the rear turret of a Heinkel aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, brought down over Kent, is remounted in a position held by a company of the Somerset Light Infantry

British and Canadian armed forces occupy Iceland during the Second World War. Pictures of British Army soldiers on the island. August 1941

More and still more guns are being mounted around the coast of Britain to give an invader a warm reception should he attempt a landing

Soldiers of a US tank destroyers unit with the 101st Airborne Division, during its defence of the Belgian town of Bastogne

British Expeditionary Force troops somewhere in Northern France near the beginning of the Second World War. Photo shows: Camouflaged British artillery in France to protect against enemy aerial

The Fifth Army at the Anzio Bridgehead in Central Italy. the Driver Rainer of 101 Mount Road, Gorton, Manchester and Sergeant Bitonti of 7865 Oakman Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan, USA

With the help of the Royal Navy, Allied troops are fighting their way forward on the Fifth Army front in the Naples area. Batteries of British

During the raid on this country on Saturday 29th January 1944, - several German raiders were accounted for by a Gunners. A mixed battery in the London area were responsible for destroying one of

For some time past, Britains newest anti-aircraft devices, rocket guns, have been in action against the Luftwaffe. These guns

Army soldiers sit on a German block buster"(3000 pounders
Army soldiers sit on a German block buster" (3000 pounders) bomb left at a Comiso bomb dump during their rush to leave Sicily. Issued: September 1943

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