World War Two Collection (page 3)

Birmingham factory worker Edith Hill of 74 Boulton Road, Handsworth, at work setting cutting tools for machines which bore Ant-Aircraft shells at a factory in the West Midlands during the Second

Sergeant S. W. Loader of New Barnet climbs into his Spitfire to join a Channel sweep
Sergeant S.W. Loader of New Barnet climbs into his Spitfire to join a Channel sweep during the Second World War. February 1944

British forces assault on Tilburg. Scenes near Tilburg, Holland as troops move up during Second World War. Circa 1940s

Loading a torpedo onto a Beaufort bomber at a Coastal Command station in Scotland. May 1941

Men of Grenadier Guards in Italy. Men of Grenadier Guards moving over a picturesque hump-back bridge generally known as Humpty Dumpty. Circa 1940s

View of the 8000 ton Royal Navy Mauritius class cruiser HMS Nigeria, during the Second World War. January 1942

The fifteen inch guns of British Royal Navy warship HMS Warspite, shelling German invasion coast positions on the Normandy coast during the Allied landings on D-Day during the Second World War

Daylight attack on the power station at Pont A Vendin and the factories at La Basse in enemy occupied Northern France during the Second World War

Some of the pilots of the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force who took part in the location of the Altmark during the Second World War. February 1940

Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, visits Liverpool Docks, Saturday 13th November 1943, from left to right, Mr M Fallon (aged 76) 56 years dock service, Ernest Bevin, Alderman Simon Mahon

Four Supermarine Spitfire F Mark XIVs, of No. 610 Squadron on patrol over Southern England. September 1944

St Pauls Cathedral flood lit during the VE day celebrations to celebrate victory in Europe. 8th May 1945

World War Two - Second World War - The ruins after a German air raid on a North East of England town. Pictured is the bomb damaged Keyes Gardens on the Matthew Bank Estate, Jesmond, Newcastle

Australian Air Force flying American Lockheed Hudsons in Malaya during the Second World War. 3rd August 1941

Firemen rescuing people from their house on Tabernacle St, Shoreditch. 11th January 1941

WW2 Dunkirk 1940 war on the beaches

Alfieri. Army Training. No. 30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942
Alfieri. Army Training. No.30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942

Members of 617 squadron toast Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Mrs Gibson after the investiture. June 22nd 1943

famous American jazz singer and entertainer ADELAIDE HALL performing on stage at an ENSA concert at RAF Hendon in North London on 17 October 1939 performing the song " Hang Out Your Washing On

Children wait on the platform of East Ham railway station waiting for evacuation to the country. 2nd September 1939

Removing a 1 ton bomb from Brixton Hill in South London after an air raid during the Second World war. Circa 1941

The Sutton Coalfield Battalion of the Warwickshire Home Guard paraded for inspection. Captain Wilfrid Bigwood the Commanding Officer

A Sherman tank of a South African unit of the Eighth Army enters the city of Florence through the Porta Romano. August 1944

Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, of Dunedin, New Zealand, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross for his outstanding valour in the Crete campaign. Circa 1941

Sergeant Roy Roberts of 62 Cardiff Road, Taffs Well, who played Second Row forward for Cardiff rugby team before the war, and Sergeant Tom Harvard of 21 Thomas Street, who played for Swinton

John Payne of the British Navy warship HMS Gurkha during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Burnt out shops in Spiceal Street, Birmingham following a heavy air raid on the city 10th April 1941

R. A. F. Bomber Command attack on the canal system in Dortmund. November 1944
R.A.F. Bomber Command attack on the canal system in Dortmund. November 1944

British Army Gunner S. R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading
British Army Gunner S.R. Gosden of 67 Catherine Street, Reading, seen here in the back row of this group of Royal Artillery men in the Middle East during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Young Navy cadets in Gravesend 1944
Young Navy cadets training for the seas by scrubbing the decks of this steamer in Gravesend. Nearby will be HMS Gordon, a Navy school on land

Sapper Bob White takes a deep breath, and tries to slide a rope round a bomb. The bomb is buried at the back of a hotel in Canning Town, London. Pictured, Bob White takes another plunge. July 1949

Bethnal Green bombing incident. The damaged railway bridge in Grove Road, London. 13th June 1944

German submarine seen in Cardiff, just after the end of the War in Europe. It is the U - 1023. Commander H A L Marsham is seen on the vessel. Picture taken 16th June 1945

Royal Navy destroyer HMS Faulknor at sea during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Liverpool, Merseyside, very near the end of the war. View from Paradise Street : In the distance is Queen Victoria Monument, and The National Bank The ground around it levelled for rebuilding

The Treasury, Whitehall, after being hit by a bomb. Circa 1940

VJ Day, a policeman carries a lost child in Trafalgar Square, London. 15th August 1945

HMS Norfolk a County-class heavy cruiser Circa 1939

Removal of of a 250 pound unexploded World War Two bomb at Fenners Works in Marfleet, East Yorkshire by Bomb Disposal experts of the Royal Engineers. Circa 1941

Bound for the country - South Shields Children who are to live in the country under the boroughs latest evacuation scheme pictured in happy mood while waiting to leave by train to-day. 7th July 1941

Members of the Bomb disposal squad measuring the length of a time delayed bomb taken from a shop in Brixton Hill, South London during the Second World War. Circa 1940

Members of a army bomb disposal squad rolling a unexploded German bomb through a London Park after defusing it. The bomb was later taken to Hackney Marsh where it was exploded. Circa September 1940

Members of a army bomb disposal squad placing an explosive charge around the fuse of an unexploded German bomb in a London Park prior to detonation. Circa September 1940

A church service in the bombed out remains of Norwich Cathedral. Norwich was bombed as part of the Baedeker Raids against historic and beautiful cities such as Bath

Mrs Laura Henderson owner of the Windmill Theatre seen here taking coffee with some of the girls during a break in rehearsals August 1943

V1 (Robotplane) damage at Arlington Road, Southgate, N14, London, 19th June 1944

Delayed Action Bomb explodes on King Edward Street while Bomb disposal Team are working on it. Two casualties and L.F.S are called in to clear debris. 9th March 1941

Sunlight filters through the roof of St. Pancras station London England during the war. Mail bags are piled up at the edge of the platform awaiting the mail train

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