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Sapper Bob White takes a deep breath, and tries to slide a rope round a bomb
A kitten is saved after a daylight air raid over London, during the Blitz
Activities of an Advance Column of a motor bridge. Picture
Children being evacuated, pictured leaving Harwich. June 1940
Mdlle. Simone Segouin of charters, a 19 year old French girl of the FTFF who has fought
Michelle Deakin was a schoolgirl when she was named Young Slimmer of the Year by a
Airborne troops prepared to leave their Hotspur glider to go into action on landing
A happy group of British troops and French civilians photographed in Caen following
Hit and Run Fire Blitz. The Germans made another hit and run blitz raid
Air Raid damage during the Second World War, a man looking at damage to a bus
Company Sergeant Major Plunkett explains the working of the butterfly bombs
A Pheasant 17-pounder anti-tank gun of the 73rd Anti Tank Regiment of the 8th
The guns in action during a night shoot with the 5th Army in Italy. 22nd October 1943
Machine gun battalion in training in the South East of England. 16th August 1941
Hudson Mark III, T9465 of No. 269 Squadron RAF flying out to join a convoy from its base
A Grumman Wildcat of No 882 Squadron Fleet Air Arm landing on HMS Victorious Circa
A Royal Navy Grumman Hellcat springs into the air at Roosevelt Field, Long Island
Should thew Japanese attempt to invade Australia they will encounter a formidable system
Museum Street, Piccadilly Circus, London, W1 VJ Day. Victory over Japan Day
A world war hospital ship The Letitia, at Liverpool, Merseyside
Mrs Lotus Lee-Chang (Lulu to her friends) whose husband is an Army lieutenant
The crew of a Lockheed Hudson Mark I, N7318, of No. 206 Squadron RAF which rescued
Havoc Mark I (Intruder), BJ496, in flight off the Irish coast after conducting
Queen Victoria Square, Hull, Yorkshire on Victory in Europe Day. VE Day
Victory over Japan Day, VJ Day, the crowds at Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria Statue
Servicemen and women dancing in the streets of London on VJ Day after Japan surrendered
A male and female soldier embrace on hearing the news that Japan has surrenders in World
An agreement was signed today in London between Greece and Yugoslavia concerning
The Monkey called Minnie, mascot of fighter pilot Warrant Officer J Booth
The NaFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) training centre on Woking, Surrey
Czechoslovakia soldiers camped on Merseyside. Picture taken 9th July 1940
Court Martial at St Neots - Cambridgeshire. Picture shows Mrs Mary Harvey
A wing commander briefs his pilots in the new speedier ways which are needed to fight in
Soldiers and civilians attend a church service in Cockfosters
At the NAFFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) in Caen, France
Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) 15th August 1945. Crowds outside Buckingham
Evacuees from a heavily blitzed town have found a peaceful haven on a famous Warwickshire
Air raid damage, Theobalds Road, London. Circa 1941
Observer post headquarters. Raiders overhead. Circa 1941
A bombed railway station somewhere in England. Circa 1941
He 111 which crashed and blew up amongst houses at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. 30th April 1940
Air chief marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Mr Eden at a north african airport
British Army soldiers of the Royal Corps of Signals Regiment
Night scenes on the British front in France, A gun crew of the British Expeditionary
Cadets from Public Schools, Grammar Schools and factories are spending their leave
Britain army Number 3 Commando troops training on ski in the snowy mountain ranges at
Extent of bomb damage caused by robot bomb at Petherton Road, Canonbury, London
Members of the London Fire Service. Circa 1941
Britain army troops training on ski in the snowy mountain ranges at Killin, Perthshire
Photographs showing members of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in training with the most
Norwegian troops serving with the Allied forces undergo training exercises in England
The Fifth Army at the Anzio Bridgehead in Central Italy
When a bomb fell near a station in London fire appliances were partially buried under
British army soldiers training for battle at night during the Second World War
Officers who have received realistic toughening up training
Britain has shook troops, lots of them, who are undergoing a strenuous course of
An intense assault course has recently been introduced in Cyprus
British Troops leaving for World War II from the United Kingdom. 19th June 1940
The Royal Army Veterinary Corps Hospital for sick horses at the Royal Reserve Veterinary
The work the Royal Corps of Signals extends from the War Office at home as far as
Men of the Royal Corps of Signals at work at a large formation headquarters
British nurses and airmen photographed immediately after their arrival somewhere in
A block of flats wrecked in an air raid. Second World War. February 1944
Can i be a paratrooper when i grew up? asks a small boy who has been watching paratroops
These men of the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry are seen on the Sussex Downs under a
The Sherwood Foresters. A series f pictures taken with the Sherwood Foresters now
A south coast town raided during the Second World War. Furniture on the roadside
Men of a battalion of the Leicester Regiment in the Middle East
Eton College bombed. One of the masters houses in the college
British Troops loading up mortar with bombs during Second World War in desert
With the help of the Royal Navy, Allied troops are fighting their way forward
A new badge which has been approved for distribution to members of the Bomb Disposal
The new Traffic Control army. This series depicts the duties of a vast
During the raid on this country on Saturday 29th January 1944
For some time past, Britains newest anti-aircraft devices, rocket guns
Bomb damage, Plymouth, Devon. Circa 1941
HM the King during a recent tour of the South of England saw how the British Army is
The badly battered town of Cisterna on the coast road to Rome. 29th June 1944
German merchant shipping in the canal as the Zealous approached one of the famous Kiel
Army soldiers sit on a German block buster"(3000 pounders
The Allied Airborne troops operating in Western Europe were equipped with Bofors
British soldiers of General Andersons First Army at work on the telephone system
Staveley Road, Chiswick, the site of the first successful V-2 missile attack against
Cecil Thomas and HG Bartholomew stand outside the Daily Mirror office, London
