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A deserted village, Stokenham, Devon, England, World War Two. The US Army have taken over the village in South West England, whilst the inhabitants have been evacuated to safety

Victory March preparations. June 1946 The Seargant Major of the East African Rifles presses his trousers in Hyde Park, London. The actual march will take place on 8th June 1946

The RAF Football Cup Final in Tripoli: Communications Flight vs Fighter Wing. The goalkeeper attempts to save a shot on Fighter Wings goal during an attack by the striker of the Communications Flight

A triple tier Bailey Bridge, built by a field company of Royal Engineers of the British Army, in England before being transported to the Continent

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. (Picture) A section of the R> B covering a post. These tough fighters with their Vickers Brans and ordinary rifles

A Royal Navy Grumman Hellcat springs into the air at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York. October 1943

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. British Army soldiers of the Rifle Brigade watching a dump of materials set ablaze in the retirement from the El Daba area of Egypt

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Veteran campaigners and raw recruits alike, serving with the Middle East Forces

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Gunners of the Imperial Australian Forces in action in the desert in Egypt. July 1942

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. A Crusader tank reaches the end of its " transporter" journey

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Captured Italian lorries passing the ruins of Sidi Barrani in Egypt. 11th December 1940

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Picture taken the day before the fall of Tunis and Bizerta showing infantrymen of the Eighth Army approaching a German mortar

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Soldiers of the Eighth Army wearing hats more reminiscent of the South of France than Gabs

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War, February to May 1943. From the beginning of the air offensive against the Mareth line on 19th March the Allies have been been

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. A battalion of the Highland Division (Black Watch) of the British Army being piped into the town of Gabes

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Allied tanks roll across the desert sands during an advance. April 1943

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Eighth Army Armoured car and crew who were the first of the Force to meet men of the First Amy between Kairouan

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. We can repair anything from a watch to a tank" is the slogan of the craftsmen of the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers who

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. The 8th Army has.done it again, Rommels defences on the Mareth Line are broken

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Immediately after they had overwhelmed the Mareth Line, the Eighth Army pressed on to Gabes and the town was occupied on 29th March

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. A member of the camel patrol of the Sudan Defence Force attached to an Indian infantry brigade holding

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Picture shows: A New Zealand signaller in the Western desert. February 1942

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Even in the battle zone, pipers of the Black Watch turn out as if they were on the " Square" back home

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Lieutenant Sergant Brown, of Holsworthy Devon, one of the first Eighth Army men to meet advanced units of the 2nd US Army

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Early in February 1943. units of the Eighth Army crossed the Tripolitanian border to lead the advance in to Tunisia

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Snobs" : 8th Army desert boot repairers. Few people think of the hundred

Opening scenes in San Franciscos opera house as United Nations conference got underway. 7rh April 1945

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Combined Infantry and tank exercises made by men of the 8th Army which is now int he first stage of its allE out offensive against

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Bomb Dispersal Company of the British Army Royal Engineers regiment demonstrate the many kinds booby traps which have been left

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. British troops tend graves of fallen comrades in Tunisia. Picture shows: Driver J

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. " Enemy patrols ware met and engaged in the Northern Sector"

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Soldiers of the Eighth Army pose by a humorous sign on a Tunisian road. April 1943

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Immediately after they had overwhelmed the Mareth Line, the Eighth Army pressed on to Gabes

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. The daring feat of the 8th Army Royal Engineers in bridging with brushwood, sandbags and trees

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Royal Engineers of the British army clearing a road of fallen trees which had been blown down by gunfire and bombs

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. The British Army " Turn the Guns" fighting the enemy with his own weapons

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. The taking of the Mareth line will stand out as one of the major turning points in the North African campaign

British and Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Troops of an Indian infantry brigade holding an advanced post on the Eritrean Frontier, cross the River Atbara

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. During the advance northwards from Gabes, Tunisia, the Eighth Army captured a 1700 mm German long range field gun

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Tank crew off the British Army ready for the road after the successful battle for the Mareth Line in Tunisia. March 1943

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Four New Zealanders formed part of a motorised infantry unit detailed to form a road block outside Benghazi, Libya

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. The 8th Armys offensive, concentrated on a 6 mile front between the sea

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. Holly Communion in Western Desert for members of an armoured car crew. 2nd June 1942

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. British armoured car reconnaissance patrols outside Mersa Matruth. (Picture) Battle scene from Western desert outside Mersa Matruth

He 111 which crashed and blew up amongst houses at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. 30th April 1940

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. South Africans dig in El Alamein Box Area battlefront. (Picture) Vickers post dug, the crew testing the position. 16th July 1942

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. (Picture) Tank recovery operation during the battle in Libya. 12th June 1942

British & Allied Troops, Western Desert campaign, the Desert War. (Picture) American field servicemen examining one of their ambulances which the driver brought back after the vehicle was hit by an

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