Rescue Collection (#12)

US Soldiers entertained 275 children of the Walton le dale community to a special Christmas party. Theres plenty of mud at the camp but the men convey the children safely over to the party

WW2 Air Raid Damage York Bomb damage at York Rescue workers at a bombed site after the blitz

WW2 Air Raid Damage Bomb damage at Portsmouth The people of Portsmouth work together to clear the rubble in their streets

WW2 Air Raid Damage at Yarmouth, Norfolk, East Anglia. Rescue team searching through what is left of a building after the Germans had made a bombing raid on Great Yarmouth June 1943

WW2 Air Raid Damage Bomb damage at Bath Rescue workers search through rubble after the blitz

WW2 Air Raid Damage Deptford South London Deptford air raid damage Rescue workers and soldiers at the site of a bombed buildings after it had been hit the night before

WW2 II Scotland Glasgow Clydebank Air Raid Two children watch workmen clear away rubble following the German air raid on the city March 1941

WW2 Air Raid Bomb Damage Norwich Members of the Auxillary Fire Service along with other members of the rescue services search the wreckage of houses bombed during an air raid on Norwich by

WW2 Air Raid Damage Rescue worker in the wreckage of a bombed hospital ward

Blitz: Taken from the German word Blitzkrieg ( lightning war ), this was the British name for the Luftwaffes sustained night attacks against their cities from August 1940 to midway 1941

A baby sheep caught in a bank of snow is dug out and rescued. Near Peak Forest, Derbyshire. 7th February 1947. © Mirrorpix

RAF Sea Rescue Launch, 4th July 1943. Our Picture Shows, new RAF sea rescue launch, roaring along making nearly as much noise as a Spitfire, lashing the water into billowing clouds of spray

A Royal Air Force Air Sea Rescue launch on trials in the Thames Estuary during WW2 - 1943

Crew of USAF B29 Super Fortress is rescued by submarine 800 miles out in the Indian Ocean after having been shot down by a Japanese fighter plane during WW2 - 1945

Merchant supply ship Confield out of Newcastle sinking after being torpedoed by a German U boat submarine during WW2. A British war ship pulls along side to help rescue the crew of the wood carrying

ARP and police searching a house in North West London that was wrecked by a German bomb. WW2 1940

Rescues services search the remains of flats in Shoreditch London after a WW2 air raid

German captain gives orders after picking up survivors from British ship sunk during WW2. The British crew can be seen in the background wearing the life jackets - 1941

Workmen and rescue services work on the remains of Sloane Square Underground Station in London which was bombed during WW2

Rescue workers lower an injured man on a stretcher from the remains of a London building struck by a V2 flying bomb during WW2. 1944

London apartment block hit by bomb during WW2 raid. 1943

Rescuers search for survivors among the remains of school hit by a bomb during a WW2 air raid

War Air Raids Members of the London Fire Service fight a fire in London

WW2 firemen testing their hoses in London

Firemen tackling fire after WW2 air raid on London. 1940s

Clearing the debris after WW2 German air raid on London

Rescue workers search the rubble after a London office block was hit during a WW2 German air raid. 1940

A Royal Air Force Air Sea Rescue launch on patrol during WW2 1943

A man is rescued from under rubble after seventeen hours

Bomb Damage after air raid damage Deptford WW2 wardens and local people search for survivors amongst the rubble and wreckage left by an Air Raid bombing circa October 1940

WW2 Air Raid Damage in Ashford Kent 24th March 1943

Surbiton Fire Brigade Display. October 1933 A fireman wearing smoke apparatus. 1307

Policeman in short sleeves helmet frantically trying to move a giant rock in the wreckage of an LCC Central school in the London suburbs following a daylight attack by rooftop German raiders

Norwegian Timber Ship being towed up the Thames by a Dutch Tug boat after a gale in the North Sea caused it to list heavily and its cargo to shift. 1948

Firemen and police joined forces to rescue a cow which had plunged into the canal at Myton Road, Warwick yesterday after wandering too close to the edge

Belvedere, the class conscious cat, walks out of the clubs big show. Belvedere is an elegant blue Persian with very definite ideas about cat shows

Up she goes... Mrs. Eve Richardson tries to reach her snake Black Price
Up she goes...Mrs. Eve Richardson tries to reach her snake Black Price, who had taken refuge up the chimney. January 1967 P000639

A firefighter rescus a young boy from a fire 01 / 06 / 95 circa - posed by models
A firefighter rescus a young boy from a fire 01/06/95 circa - posed by models

Firefighters try out the new breathing apparatus training centre at North Shields Fire Station

Children of Elgin Terrace in Maida Vale, London, look up at the bomb damage near their homes after a V1 flying bomb attack. June 1944 P009494

Two Salford women rescue kittens, cats and dogs from demolition areas and care for them until they go to good homes..Seen here Mrs. Norma Parker, left, pictured with Mrs

Zip an Airedale dog who likes to ramble around the mess at the headquarters of the First Canadian army and belongs to Lieutenant Gerald Mahoney of Montreal, pictured February 1944

Miners: Mine rescue team: Fire at Monckton No. 3 and 4 Colliery Nr. Barnsley. Pictured at the pit head after completing an arduous shift sealing off the burning seam are men of Monckton No

Safe at last, Belvedere owned by Carmen Dene is rescued from the floor of Alexandra Palace by three maintenance men John Gallagher (not in picture), Jim Cracknell and Jim Underwood

Royal Air Force Coastal Command Rescue Helicopters in Action. Circa 1965. P005298

Tip and run raid. Removing furniture from buildings which are blazing at Marylebone after a V1 flying bomb attack. March 1944 P009472

V1 flying bomb falls on dwelling houses and shops somewhere in Southern England. Rescue work and fire fighting scenes. August 1944 P009480

Bomb damage near Waterloo Station. A Blitzed bus caused by blast from a V1 flying bomb. June 1944 P009482

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