Second World War Collection (#91)

World War Two - Second World War - Steel workers tend to the furnaces keeping up vital war production of the metal. 01/07/1940

Warmly clad members of Ground Crew clearing away snow from a dispersl point at a bomber command station in England. 8th March 1944

Sixteen tousled heads bend over a rickety billiard table at the Camel club, Bethnal Green, as 11 year old Ronnie Munday prepares to pot a shot

A. T. S. girls on a course of physical training are so full of pep that they find new deeds
A.T.S. girls on a course of physical training are so full of pep that they find new deeds of daring to perform. Here are some who do a mild form of acrobatics among themselves during the break just

EVALUATION SCAN ONLY. A Second World War Avro Lancaster bomber pictured leaving RAF St Athan after a refit. 15th May 1996

A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to "show the flag"
A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to " show the flag" to Canada and the USA. Picture shows: Clyde Pangborn, captain and famous international airman at the cockpit window

The Avro Manchester aircraft now in service with Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force. The nose of the plane showing the bomb aimers window and the forward gun torrent. 13th November 1941

Night time aerial view showing bomb damage to a depot of tanks and lorries during a raid by RAF Lancaster bomber planes at Mailly, 40 miles south east of Rheims in occupied France

The Lancastrian, Britains latest Airliner for the long haul flight between England and Australia. The Lancastrian is a civil version of the famous Lancaster bomber

Dunkirk veterans (from left) Mr Jim Chadwick, Capt Harold Dugdale and Mr George Behan point out the beaches where men were picked up by a flotilla of ships

Children in a Manchester Street find their own enjoyment with the aid of a rope and a lamp post. Children playing in the street, swinging from a streetlight in March 1943

Women of Runswick Bay in Yorkshire, all pulling together on the rope to launch the lifeboat. 13th March 1940

Lifeboatmen of Sheringham, Norfolk stand by during operational flights over the North Sea to rescue airmen who may have dropped into the sea on their way out to or returning from missions abroad

Twenty four year old warden Mrs Mary Couchman crouches down to protect her young son Brian and his two friends during an air in a Kent village during the Second World War

A wartime football match between Charlton Athletic and Reading Football Clubs at Charltons stadium, the Valley, August 1944

Neville Chamberlain seen here at Heston Airport after returning from his summit meeting with the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich

Bomb damage at Invicta Road, East Greenwich, London during the Second World War. 14th November 1940

Anderson Shelter decorated by the house holders. Circa 1940. P009204

Jimmy is a goose "attached"to a searchlight unit in the Midlands
Jimmy is a goose " attached" to a searchlight unit in the Midlands. He was fattened up for last Xmas but before the Unit cook could claim him he became such a prime favourite with all

Two of RAF Bomber Commands heavy Lancaster bombers silhouetted against dense clouds of smoke during atheir assault on the important industrial

A Lancaster bomber crewman screws on a nose art painting of Zola on to the side of the aircraft for good luck befoe a raid in WW2. July 1942

A new 12, 000 pound bomb which is being dropped by the RAF on industrial targets in occupied France and Germany, pictured in front of a Lancaster bomber. 13th March 1944

A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to "show the flag"
A Lancaster aircraft flown across the Atlantic to " show the flag" to Canada and the USA. Picture shows: the crew of the aircraft. 25th August 1942

Children of St Chads Roman Catholic School at Snow Hill station in Birmingham, evacuees at the start of World War Two, 26th August 1939

The Football League War Cup tournament was held annually between 1939 and 1945 to fill the hole left in English Football by the cancellation of the FA Cup during the Second World War

War Prisoners, Italians at the gate of a house in Woodhall Gate, Pinner Wood Estate, Pinner, Greater London. 1st October 1944

American soldiers, farmers in peacetime, take a weeks course in wartime farming in Devonshire, arranged by Devon WAEC. At 8th century Dartington Hall, near Totnes

Entertainment for American servicemen in England during the Second World War Two. 19th September 1944

One of the vital weapons of the US Army now manoeuvering on the rugged downs and beaches of England in preparation for the invasion of occupied Europe is the giant M-25 which recovers damaged tanks

Ranger training preparing US troops for the invasion of Europe during the Second World War. Two combatants toss each other about while their companios battle it out as American troops in England go

Wounded American servicemen are loaded on to an emergency landing strip on the Skytrain Hospital ship of the Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Command

American paratroopers file along with full equipment to board their transport plane for the allied invasion of Nazi occupied Europe on D-Day. 6th June 1944

The completed portion of the main building of the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, with the Vestry Tower also approaching completion. St Jamess Mount, Liverpool. 6th December 1940

Parachute Troops - February 1941 Special Air Service at Ground Training

The ruins of Coventry Cathedral, also known as St Michaels Cathedral, West Midlands. The Cathedral was bombed almost to destruction during the Coventry Blitz on 14 November 1940. Circa 1940

A sparrow nests and rear its young in a hole made by a bomb splinter in one of the figures of a guardsman on the Guards Division War Memorial, Horse Guards Parade, London

At 3pm on 8 May 1945, Prime Minister, Winston Churchill announced that the war in Europe would end at midnight. London erupted into a massive chorus of jubilation and celebration

The Bishop of Coventry taking the Eight O Clock Holy Communion service in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, also known as St Michaels Cathedral

Village Road, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Showing the pubs The Green Man and The Swan Inn. Circa 1945

Three boys looking at directions on Village Road, Denham, Buckinghamshire. Circa 1945

A Spitfire IX fighter plane fitted with three bombs ready to take off in Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. In the cockpit is Wing Commander A G Page. August 1944

Spitfire F Mark XII of No. 41 Squadron RAF, which is fitted with a Rolls Royce Griffon engine, pictured on the ground at RAF Friston, Sussex. April 1944

A woman with two dogs at Flatford Mill, on the River Stour close to the Suffolk-Essex border. The Mill featured in many paintings by John Constable. East Bergholt, Suffolk. Circa 1945

Two men at work at Flatford Mill, on the River Stour close to the Suffolk-Essex border. The Mill featured in many paintings by John Constable. East Bergholt, Suffolk. Circa 1945

Throwing hot pennies to children at Honiton Fair Devon. The Hot Pennies ceremony takes place annually on the first Tuesday after 19 July in the High Street of the town

A policeman talking to a small girl, Edinburgh, 1945

Two men relaxing in a pub in Edinburgh, circa 1945

Tourists visiting the One O Clock Gun or Time Gun, at Edinburgh Castle. It is a time signal, fired every day at 13:00, apart from Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day, circa 1945

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