War And Conflict Collection (page 4)

RAF Technicians at one of the launch control suites for one of the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile at RAF Feltwell. 2nd February 1960

RAF Technician runs a tests on the Rocketdyne propulsion unit for a Thor intermediate range ballistic missile at RAF Feltwell. 2nd February 1960

Press Visit to R. A. F. Feltwell - Thor Ballistic Missile Base
Press Visit to R.A.F. Feltwell - Thor Ballistic Missile Base. The Thor is a intermediate range ballistic missile. Seen here taking its places as part of the operational front - line of the Royal Air

The moment of detonation of the second test of Britains Hydrogen bomb. As seen by members of the press and naval ratings aboard HMS Alert 35 miles offshore of Malden Island

Soldiers of the South Vietnamese army advance on Viet Cong positions in Trang Bang just days after the peace treaty between the USA and North Vietnam was signed in Paris. 31st January 1973

A girl telephonist at the main A. R. P. control centre of Liverpool operating her phone
A girl telephonist at the main A.R.P. control centre of Liverpool operating her phone while wearing a gas mask. 13th April 1941

A cavalry is a group of soldiers who fight on horses. Cavalry can also refer to any military unit that is quick and mobile.... Traditionally, a cavalry is a unit of troops on horseback

Air Raid Shelter signs seen here in Derby. Circa October 1939

Smithford Street, Coventry in blackout 1st December 1939

Auxiliary fire service unit in action during the A. R. P. exercises at Derby 15th May 1939
Auxiliary fire service unit in action during the A.R.P. exercises at Derby 15th May 1939

First productions pictures of the new Crusader Cruiser type tank, the fastest fighting vehicle in the world, Built in Wolsely factory at Drens Lane, Ward End, Birmingham, Circa 1939

Barrage balloons a new addition to the Derby skyline. 15th October 1939 Taken from the roof of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Northcliffe House

Hallawell. Air raid siren on top of Lewiss Market Street building in Manchester which wailed out after an interval of ten years in todays tests. Circa 1939

A peep inside the dug-out air raid shelter at Borrowash 15th October 1939

Soldiers of the 30th Surrey Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery, part of the Territorial Army sign in for their summer training camp at the TA barracks in Surbiton Road, Kingston Upon Thames

Midlands munitions factory 3rd October 1939 A party of London and Provincial journalists, including the representatives of important foreign newspapers

The Lord Mayor of Birmingham inspecting a fleet of new A. R. P
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham inspecting a fleet of new A.R.P. ambulances at the Municipal Car Park Depot with Councillor N Tiptaft (Chairman of the A.R.P. committee and Mr V Hamilton (Chief A.R.P)

Some of the Militiamen from Birmingham and the Midlands seen here being issued with their uniforms at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, this morning

A bandsman of the South Staffordshire Regiment seen here rehearsing with a boy soldier at the Regimental Training Depot. 15th September 1939

Theres a look of keen anticipation on the faces of these Bevin Boys about to make their first descent of the Moirrison Pit. 19th January 1944

Boy trainees get their lamps before going below to the Ashington Colliery Companys underground school. 30th April 1942

Bevin Boys attendng the Annefield Plain pit school seen leaving the Morrison Pit after descending the mine. 23rd January 1944

HMS Cossack returns to Leith on 17 February 1940, after rescuing the British prisoners held in Graf Spees supply ship Altmark

Steel helmets for the London special constables. "Do you find them heavy
Steel helmets for the London special constables. " Do you find them heavy?" asks the assistant commander of the E division

The mystery ship, HMS Suffolk Coast. The hatches opened, disclosing the useful little weapon always in constant readiness to give the U-boat pirate a warmer reception than either he anticipated or

The German Imperial Navy Light Cruiser SMS Frankfurt seen here in the Firth of Forth at the end of Operation ZZ the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet to the Royal Navy following the signing of

The German Imperial Battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz seen here during Operation ZZ the surrender of the the German High Seas Fleet to the Royal Navy following the signing of the Armistice

The Bizerte Crisis 1961 French soldiers on the streets of Bizerte. July 21st 1961 The crisis arose after Tunisian forces surrounded

A Spitfire Mk IXe (ML417) of the Fighter Collection seen here in the skies above Duxford, Cambridgeshire, during rehearsals for the 1998 Spitfire Airshow. 30th May 1998

Armistice Celebrated. Cambridge "let itself go"
Armistice Celebrated. Cambridge " let itself go" with full vigour on November 11th 1918 on receipt of the news that the Germans had accepted

Second World War Veterans, (from left) Albert Dunn, George Russell, Bill Harrison, Gilbert Pearson, Alf Welch and James Connelly

The Thornton Varley site, Brook Street, Hull 8th May 1941

ARP personnel and rescue workers did through the rubble of Sculcoates Lane, Hull looking for survivors following the raid on the city 7th - 8th May 1941

Giant vacuum cleaner seen here during the clean up following the Luftwaffe raid on Hull 24th June 1943

A unexploded parachute mine outside 10 Ellerby Grove, East Hull being visually inspected before being defused. 23rd February 1941

House in Park Hill Road, Torquay partly destroyed by a bomb during an air raid. 29th May 1944

Pilots from 501 squadron show off the tailplane rudder of a Messerschmitt 109 at RAF Filton in 1st November 1940

The Stag and Hounds in Old Market war time Bristol

Bristol Bridge in 1940, bomb damage in Victoria Street next to Georges Brewery Bristol Blitz Between 24 November 1940 and 11 April 1941 there were six major bombing raids on Bristol

Dads Army, the Home Guard, in Bristol and Somerset between 1940 and 1942

Bristol Blitz War time pictures of destruction visited on the city by German bombers. 12th April 1941 Between 24 November 1940 and 11 April 1941 there were six major bombing raids on Bristol

Remains of the Tivoli cinema in Weston Super Mare after the air raid of the 28th June 1942

Womens Land Army girls with a tractor probably taken on farms in North Somerset during the Second World War. Circa June 1942

Easton Road, Bristol the morning after a large air raid on the city. The bus in the foreground was from the Lawrence Hill depot and was destroyed by a bomb. Victor T

Some local Land Army girls learning to drive a Fordson tractor at the start of the last war, in 1939. As you can see, there was not much concern for health and safety in those days

Police with helmets and gas masks 1939 Bristol

A Blue Steel missile at RAF Waddington The UKs nuclear deterrent seen here being loaded aboard a RAF Avro Vulcan. 14 February 1963

RAF Patrington and Holmpton. Underground telephone exchange. From left reporter Stuart Russell, Capt JD Ford and Wing Cdr Geoffrey Oliver

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