World War Two Collection (page 2)

Members of an American Eagle Squadron at an overseas Club Place challenge during the Second World War. The Eagle Squadrons were three fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force (RAF)

The big guns that guard Singapore. (Picture) In one of the gunnery control rooms high above the battery, gunners follow the burst of each shell. Circa November 1941

Bomb damage in Bristol after an attack by a lone Nazi German Luftwaffe raider on 28th August 1942, eighteen months since the last attack of the Bristol Blitz in the Second World War

St Martins Church in the Bull Ring, Birmingham the morning after a heavy air raid on the city. 10th April 1941

Members of the volunteer Overseas Contingent of the National Fire Service have issued with special kit in readiness for service

The Mulberry B harbour "Port Winston"at Arromanches. 16th September 1944
The Mulberry B harbour " Port Winston" at Arromanches. 16th September 1944

Dispatch Rider Violet Goozee. March 1944 P009053

WW2 A family seeks refuge inside an Anderson Air Raid shelter during the blitz. These shelter came in kit form, they were made of corrugated iron

Miners at Langley Park Colliery on their way to work stop for a glance at their record after achieving their target during the recent 12 weeks period. 20th September 1943

HMS Wallace a Shakespeare Class Flotilla Leader escort seen here in 1942 shortly after Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh joined the ship as a sub lieutenant. Circa January 1942

Air correspondents of London newspapers visit Royal Air Force Commands in North Africa. Picture (issued 1943) shows - A group of air correspondents with R.A.F

The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W. E. C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary
The Mayor of Reading, Councillor W.E.C. McIlroy, inspecting members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) at a display in the city centre during the Second World War. 11th June 1942

American soldiers from Company E, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, move through the concrete Dragons Teeth of Siegfried line near Habscheid, Germany, as they move up to the front. 12th February 1945

The scene at No. 38 Dudley Road, Folkestone when a shell fired from the German batteries
The scene at No.38 Dudley Road, Folkestone when a shell fired from the German batteries on the French coast struck the house

Bombers of the German Luftwaffe in flight over London during the Battle of Britain. Picture shows: Two Dornier 217s flying above fires started by bombs in the neighbourhood of Beckton gas works in

Mr R. J. White, leader of an Isle of Wight ARP rescue party
Mr R.J. White, leader of an Isle of Wight ARP rescue party, has invented three pieces of apparatus to improve the manipulation of stretchers to prevent further injury to the patient

HMS Fury leads the 8th destroyer flotilla during a fleet exercise close to Scapa Flow. Circa 1942

Picture taken at a British base when the British Royal Navy submarine HMS Ultimatum returned after a year of successful patrolling in the Mediterranean Sea where she sank a total of 6

British Royal Navy warship HMS Warspite, flagship of Admiral Sir James Somerville, commanding the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. September 1942

Demolition squads at work after a Nazi Luftwaffe raid on Liverpool and Merseyside. Original caption suggests the picture was taken in Opie Street or Great Homer Street, Liverpool

The Tank, Infantry, Mk III, Valentine was an infantry tank produced in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. More than 8, 000 of the type were produced in eleven marks

The latest type of motor torpedo boat in use by the Royal Navy, discharging her weapons during exercises in the English Channel during the Second World War. July 1940

Lambeth and Kennington area of London - April 1941. Picture shows The Old Tennants Hostel on the left. Possibly Newburn Street but this is not confirmed

Clearance of an unexploded bomb in Hull during the Second World War. One of many dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of Hull over three nights in May 1941

Members of a Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad pose for the camera after successfully defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull

Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Squad defusing a 500KG bomb in Craven Street, Hull. One of many dropped by the Luftwaffe on the city of Hull over three nights in May 1941

Liberation of Europe: German Destroyer Aground off Ile De Batz. (Picture shows) A beached enemy destroyer was successfully attacked recently by rocket

Second World War, Canterbury Cathedral damaged during the raid. June 1942

Picture shows The Sunderland. A new type of sea plane for the RAF. Pictured is a biplane, but it is related to the 2 winged plane

New recruits to the Royal Navy write their first letter home to tell their people of their safe arrival at HMS Raleigh, the navys training barracks at Torpoint in Cornwall. 21st December 1942

Men of 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division being briefed for the invasion. 4th June 1944

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

The Lord Mayor of Cardiff (Alderman James Hellyer - {pictured right}) drawing his Points ration book at the City Hall, Cardiff

British Army East Yorkshire regiment in training somewhere in England during the Second World War. Circa 1940

The allies have planned their own railroad system to take with them for the forthcoming second front. The construction of this rail system in England has been on of the greatest secrets of this war

The Flower class corvette HMS Camellia (K31) getting up steam before escorting a convoy across the North Atlantic. December 1941

Mine disposal team deal with a mine in Rye Bay England during WW2 1945

RAF Pilots scramble during th Battle of Britain Conflict World War Two Pilots running Aircraft Fighter Supermarine Spitfire Airfield England DH Circa July 1940 1940s © Mirrorpix dvdnews

The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtniskirche church and surrounding buildings in Berlin Germany devastated by Allied bombing during WW2 - 1st July 1945

The occupation of Palmyra (Syria). Troops from a Bren gun-carrier searching the ruins of the old Roman colonnade. Circa 1941

Display of Remedial exercises given by the Royal Air Force before a large crowd at Seymour Hall, London during the Second World War

Tankmen of the Canadian Army rest by their Sherman tanks after the tank battle which took place between the Hitler Line and Gustav Line on the Italian Front battlefield

Reconnaissance photograph taken after he RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28 / 29th
Reconnaissance photograph taken after he RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28/29th June and 3/4th July 1943. Pictured, in this area of heavy industrial damage

The 30th Corps memorial at Nienburg, a prancing black boar, sign of the corps since its formation, was unveiled by the corps commander, Lieut.Gen. Sir Brain Horrocks

The Commanding Officer and other crew of the submarine H. M. S. Seraph. Circa 1942
The Commanding Officer and other crew of the submarine H.M.S. Seraph. Circa 1942

Reconnaissance photograph taken after the RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28 / 29th
Reconnaissance photograph taken after the RAFs heavy attacks on Cologne on 28/29th June and 3/4 July 1943. Pictured, the extensive and heavily damaged area at Kalk, on the east bank of the Rhine

Smoke and dust billow upward during a successful attack by United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses, after five minutes of concentrated bombing on Toulon harbour

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