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The Flying Scotsman, (LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman) steam train travels along the track in the Berkshire/Oxfordshire area in the summer of 1999
A famous Scottish Regiment on manoeuvres in Malaya during the Second World War. The troops show how they have adapted themselves to the conditions of warfare which would prevail in Malaya by cutting
While the gaping bow doors of amphibious assault craft spew forth more men and supplies, US troops and Coast Guardsmen fill sand bags for gun emplacements on Leyte Island in the central Philippines
A sub-machine gun in one hand and a grenade in the other, a US soldier marches at the head of his men in pursuit of Japanese defenders of New Britain Island the Southwest Pacific
A Kamikaze pilot of the Imperial Japanese Air Force in a suicide attack on the American navy warship USS Sangamon in the Pacific Ocean near Okinawa. 4th May 1945
Units of the US Army Medical Corps in combat areas perform their duties under extreme difficulties. Here an emergency operation is being performed in a dug out located deep in the jungle of
Fire bombs on Singapore during the Second World War. Circa 1942
Women and children who were evacuated from the city of Penang, Malaysia to reduce the possibilities of casualties from bombs, arrive at a station en route to the South of the country. June 1945
Japanese air raids in the battle for Malaya during the Second World War. A local resident erecting a temporary shelter amid the ruins of his home bombed by Japanese air raiders while his wife
RAF Heavies Strike in Malaya. In a round trip of nearly 2500 miles from bases in India, RAF Liberators of Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command
Malaya Is now strong on the sea, in the air on the land. Units which have been here some time are trained to fight in Malayan terrain, on the coast in jungle or rubber land
American forces which successfully drove the Japanese from New Georgia Island, as part of the current Allied offensive in the Pacific were forced to contend with mud
The smoke had barely cleared away when this picture of a US Marine 105 mm gun crew in action on New Britain island was taken
American marines with a caterpillar tractor and trailer move ahead through a sea of mud with supplies for troops who are driving the Japanese farther inland on Bougainvilie Island in the Northern
American marines and their jungles rained war dogs move past a light machine gun nest as they advance along a jungle trail on Empress Augusta Bay at Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomons to
Allied soldiers and equipment despite Japanese flre, pour from on American LST (landing ship-tank) vessel on to the beach at Nono Atoll in the Treasury Islands of the Central Solomons in the daylight
US amphibious tanks line a beach bringing in supplies to American marines who landed on Japanese- held Emirau Island in the St Matthias group of the Southwest Pacific
US Marines carrying stretchers splash through the surf after having disembarked from huge American LST (Land ship-tank) vessels on a beach at Cape Gloucester as small amphibious craft roll ashore
Standing by their 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, US and New Zealand soldiers scan the skies for Japanese planes as their landing craft nears the Green Islands in the South Pacific
Picture taken at a New Zealand Air Force base in the Solomon Islands, where the RAF are operating against the Japanese. Photo shows: In the tropical heat
Riding carabaos attached to sleds laden with their household goods, Filipino soldiers return to their homes on Luzon Island, Philippines, after its liberation by American troops
Beside a pontoon bridge spanning the Palo River on Leyte Island, American soldiers wash themselves and their clothes. One soldier evidently doesn t trust the temporary lull in the fighting for he
A US Army beach master seen here guiding landing craft to a safe beach area to unload heavy equipment and armoured vehicles after the initial US Sixth Army landed at Panaon Strait on Leyte
Seamen on the deck of the US Coast Guard Frigate watch a large caravan of ships, carrying supplies and reinforcements to American troops who are engaged in battle against the Japanese in
Co-operating with American Allies, New Zealand troops in the Pacific are helping to make the total defeat of Japan a reality
Escort carriers of the US Navy prepare for action against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War. On 16th and 17th February 1945, more than 15
Cautiously, their guns ready for quick action, American troops push through the heavy tropical brush towards a Japanese machine gun nest on Leyte Island in the Central Phillipines. October 1944
American Army troops cross the Pasig River which bisects Manila, the Philippine capital on Luzon Island, during the Second World War
Happy scenes as the Australian Imperial Force arrive in Singapore for the battle against the Japanese during the Second World War. February 1943
The United Nations, having decided to forestall a Japanese move against the Vichy French Naval base of Diego Suarez in Madagascar
Troops of the Australian Imperial Force fraternise with the local Malaya Navy as they arrive in Singapore for the battle against the Japanese during the Second World War. February 1943
Ths 23, 000 ton British aircraft carrier HMS Victorious while she was co-operating with the United States Navy in the Pacific Ocean
A feature of the recent naval operations off the Sakashima Islands in support of the Okinawa landings was the Japanese suicide aircraft attack
First photographs of the Navys successful surprise raid on Sabang and Lhenga airfields in Northern Sumatra at dawn on 19th April 1944
US trucks haul supplies to waiting LSTs (landing ship tanks) at a port in a Central Pacific Mariana Island. From the warehouses in the background a steady stream of trucks carries equipment
The Royal Indian Army Corps has a tough job in Burma, It has to set supplies through Jungle and leech infested swamps across rivers and trackless country. Sometimes river beds form the only path
The Australian advance on Weston on Labuan Island off North Borneo in amphibious landing vehicle tractors was achieved without opposition
The London North East Railway Class A4 4-6-2 steam locomotive 60032 Gannet heads the Elizabethan Express train service run from Kings Cross Station in London to Edinburgh. January 1956
Nuclear mushroom cloud seen here over Malden Island following the detontation of the bomb called Short Granite. The explosion was the first of three carried out by the United Kingdom 15th May 1957
