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Returning to the island of Vis, after an attack on German held island of Brac, these partisans of marshal Titos force, are tired but still in good sprits. Circa 1940s Croatia
Sir Christopher George watching the great ATC (Air Transport Command) parade in Regents Park, London A crows of 10, 000 were in attendance. Picture taken 5th July 1942
The Saudi Arabia Mission arrives in San Fransisco L-R Sheikh Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, Amir Abdullah El-Faisal, Amir Fahad Ibn Abdul Aziz, Amir Mohammed Ibn Abdul Aziz and Amir Faisal Ibn Abdul
Aerial view of Pontine Marshes during Second World War. Circa 1940s
Aircraft manufacture - location in Britain unknown. Picture taken 11th December 1940
A couple of young ladies, one might be called Irene, at a Railways Station booking Office, preparing the tickets through a machine
Little train leaves the store carrying loads of destruction for Germany. 2nd August 1941
The RAF having landed, inspecting their maps. Picture taken 6th June 1943
A Memorial built by Royal Australian Engineers and dedicated to those who have given their lives for the defence Tobruk, was unveiled by Major General Morshead G.O.C Tobruk. 5th November 1941
Young men, possibly in line for call up, eyeing up the food as the kitchen staff walk past them. Picture taken 15th September 1939
These Lancashire lads and lassies are enjoying their dinner-hour break from their aircraft factory job. It a nondescript ball minus a regulation bladder stuffed with any old thing
A lookout on a US warship trans glasses on two of the US Navys new Essex class aircraft carriers as they proceed in line ahead formation with two other warships on a combat mission in the Pacific
A V Bomb incident - somewhere in England. Location and date unknown. The first V1 bomb to land in Britain was 13th June 1944, in London
Men of the Twenty - Twenty Five class seen here queuing at a London railway station after being called up for military duty. Picture taken 31st May 1940
Royal Army Medical Corps - demonstration in camouflage. Soldiers carrying a stretcher through the bushes and growth. Location in England - but not known. Picture taken 19th October 1941
Service girls caught on the rocks in Plymouth, Devon. The US soldiers nearby eventually helps them out. Picture taken 9th March 1945
A swimming Bren Gun Carrier seen here taking part in a river assault exercise with infantry and the Royal Engineers, York, Yorkshire, Northern England. Picture taken 22nd July 1942
The ATS. on parade. The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the womens branch of the British Army during the Second World War
Seamen on the deck of a US Coast Guard Frigate watch a large caravan of ships carrying supplies and reinforcements to American troops fighting the Japanese in the Philippines
An American Pacific Fleet cruiser pours steams of water into the stricken light aircraft carrier USS Princeton, hit by Japanese bombs during the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea
While its planes soar and circle overhead, one of the US Navys new 25000-ton Essex class aircraft carriers speed through the Pacific
The RAF, (location unknown) studying their maps. Picture taken 13th June 1943
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, pictured watching tank display whilst on their royal tour of Scotland. Picture taken 5th September 1942
A swirling sheet of flame and white smoke mark the position of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down by US Navy a fire as it swooped low to torpedo the 25, 000-ton aircraft carrier (left)
Versatile A2 (Havoc) light bombers of the ninth US Air Force which have been operating from England for several weeks, winging their way toward the continent to again blast Hitlers Fortress. May 1944
WRENS World War Two. The Womens Royal Naval Service Two named cousins, playing the organ in a Church at Christmas time. Picture taken 22nd December 1942
The Great Fire of London. Can these boys take it? An H. EThe Great Fire of London. Can these boys take it? An H.E. has just fallen on a dwelling house, not more than 150 yards away, but they stick to their job. 29th December 1940
Evacuees during the Second World War. November 1940
A general scene in the main street in the village of Strete, Devon. Villagers are talking about the evacuation that will affect the whole area. November 1943
Air raid shelter in the London area. It is an official shelter, a disused underground railway tunnel. September 1940
Evacuees having a picnic under the cedar trees in the gardens of a church in Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire. August 1944
Mothers and fathers at the Welcome Club with their children. The club was formerly Christ Church Weymouth. December 1939
A woman tucking two children into bed, Salisbury Cathedral. Young children and mothers seek refuge from the bombed areas during World War Two. 24th November 1940
The Great Fire of London. Fires break out among the wreckage of workmens homesteads. Wives and children scream out for help from underneath the tangled mass
Remarkable picture of parachute flares dropped in London. 29th December 1940
A small fire burns, one of many, across London, during The Blitz of World War Two. London was hit with 37 raids from September 1940 to May 1941. Actual location unknown
A hole in the road, made by a German bomb during the blitz of World War Two. Location unknown. The name Eileen Close is written on the caption, either as a victim, a survivor
The Great Fire of London. Londons Burning, the light of the many fires cast a great glare in the sky, which could be seen for miles around. 29th December 1940
The Great Fire of London. H. E which had just fallen in vicinityThe Great Fire of London. H.E which had just fallen in vicinity, scattered debris about them, but still they fight on. 29th December 1940
Fire rages through the interior of St Brides Church, Fleet Street as it fell victim to the flames from German incendiary bombs which reduced Wrens architectural jewel to a roofless shell
The Great Fire of London. Fire scenes in the city. 29th December 1940
Sergeant Smabo Waja, a West African soldier fighting on the Burma front, flourishes his machete on patrols in Japanese occupied territory
Devastation after another air raid on London. This picture is suggested to have been taken in Poplar, East London. Though this is not confirmed. Picture taken circa 8th September 1940
London (area unknown, though possibly the centre of the city) - the scene after another air raid by Germany, in World War Two. Picture taken 8th January 1941
A warehouse in London, which might read as the area of Poplar, East London, showing what is suggest as wooden beds. Perhaps stretchers
Big Ben and Westminster, pictured during the time of The Blitz over London. World War Two. Picture taken 10th May 1941
Picture shows Londons New Street Square in the centre of the city. Unsteady building walls will have to come down after the building was hit during a German air raid on the capital
London, the Marylebone area, West Central London. The streets a littered with rubble after another German air raid on the city. Picture taken 17th April 1941
