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Convoy PQ 18 at sea. An underwater detonation erupts next to HMS Ashanti. The destroyer HMS Eskimo is seen in the foreground. Merchant ships are in the background. 13th September 1942
The war Office announces that 500, 000 capes will be delivered for issue to the Home Guard by the end of the year. The cape, of knee length, is made of battle dress material
A pub in Dover - shepherds and gunners celebrate. Pub is un named. Picture taken 1st October 1944
A British convoy passing through the Straits of Dover seen here being attacked by German dive bomber. 11th July 1940. German air operations over the English Channel marked the first phase of The
Should the enemy attempt to land seaplanes on Lake Windermere, one of Britains largest lakes, he will meet with strong and effective resistance from the Home Guard " marines"
Tobruk harbour - The Pride of Tobruk is HMS Ladybird which was sunk in the harbour with only her gun turret above the water line
HMS Kelly under tow in the North Sea after being torpedoed off the coast of Norway on the 10th May 1940
The new steel helmet for use by civilians as announced by Herbert Morrison in the House of Commons. February 1941
A tramcar, now a wreck after it was hit in a German Air raid. Clydeside, Glasgow - Scotland. Picture taken 20th March 1941
Operation at sea saves sailors life. November 1944, on board the cruiser HMS Berwick, in northern waters. A destroyer rating believed to be suffering from appendicitis was transferred from his ship
The new National Fire Service discs being prepared by the NFS for use where the local authority so requests by Fire Guard Block and street Fire Party leaders when summoning the National Fire Service
A bomb damage scene. Folkestone in Kent. The house is in ruins in the background. Picture taken 3rd October 1944
While the ships company of HMS Newcastle are bathing over the side Able Seaman H Leonard, of Charlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, stands by with loaded rifle in case any sharks should approach the ship
New Surrey training camp for part time fire fighters. New Parliamentary Secretary of Food talks to Fire Force cooks before taking up his new job
Miss Fatih Watson a The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) Nurse and medical assistant with the Canadian Red Cross rings a signature to gunner Erberg of the Canadian Army
USS Nevada, a USN destroyer, USS Quincy, another USN destroyer, and HMS Glasgow seen from HMS Enterprise. Preparing to bombard the German shore batteries at Cherbourg. 25th June 1944
Five British airmen rescued from a rubber float climbing on board HMS Jackal. The five were rescued after 24 hours afloat. They had come down in the sea after a raid over enemy territory
Picture shows the Womens Voluntary Service (WVS) roll of honour list at St Annes Church in Manchester. For those who gave their lives int he war
The fleet in the Mediterranean Circa 1941
North Walsham Urban District Meeting. North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England within the North Norfolk district. Picture taken 10th February 1944
HMS Fury (in the foreground) and HMS Ashanti laying a smoke screen after a dummy torpedo run, during fleet exercises off of Scapa Flow. Circa May 1942
A battalion of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders shown training in the snow in their native highlands. They are stationed at an Infantry Training Centre in Scotland
Picture shows a concealed cine camera. Picture take 5th February 1942
Land-Air co-operation is an essential of victory in this modern war of 3 elements. Planes act as " flying artillery" in the van of attacking forces
The new indoor Table shelter announced by the Minister of Home Security in the house. 11th February 1941
Women doing mens jobs - world war two. Picture shows the ladies painting a bridge on the LNER line. (London North Eastern Railway) Picture taken 28th February 1942
This photograph shows the extraordinary scene presented to Allied Airmen when Rommel began his retreat from El Alamein. For miles along the coast road enemy vehicles stretch in an almost unbroken
A train laden with ammunition and dive bombers for Axis front line forces was destroyed by Allied bombers in an attack on a country railway station near Enfidaville, Tunisia
Tests carried out by the Research and Experimental department on a Flat-topped shelter Type T. This shelter was first tested by dropping a heavy block of concrete weighing 350 lbs from a height of 6
To counter possible attempts by the enemy to land troops on Scottish lochs, by seaplanes, armed motor boat patrols have been established
Invasion-trained Canadian forces, who made assault landings on Sicily in co-operation with American Forces in July 1943, went through months of gruelling training in preparation for the operation
The task of a Tactical Reconnaissance pilot - the eyes of the army - is three fold. To keep Headquarters informed as to the enemys movements and equipment
A bomb fell between two houses in a Merseyside town causing both of them to collapse. The Morrisons were in a ground floor room in each of them
A house, now a wreck after it was hit in a German Air raid. Glasgow - Scotland. Picture taken 14th April 1941
A two storey house was brought down by explosives to reproduce the collapse caused by a heavy bomb falling nearby. The debris support erected-was in one of the ground floor rooms
Beneath the White Ensign a division, led by their divisional officer, marches past Captain R L B Cunliffe, RN, Commanding Officer of HMS Illustrious on board the aircraft carrier during Sunday
A youth gathering in Clerkenwall, Central London. Picture taken 17th February 1944
Benghazi harbour in Libya is so frequently bombed by the RAF that the pilots have named the sorties to this target " The Mail Run" Picture shows
Two of the escort carriers, HMS Slinger (left) and HMS Speaker taking a tossing with aircraft ranged on deck. The destroyer in the distance is HMS Eskimo
Home Guard at a shoot on an artillery range. Home Guards including many old gunners of the last war are now taking over field artillery for local defence in the West Country
An Italian torpedo bomber attempting to escape shell fire from HMS Jervis minutes before it crashed into the sea. 22nd March 1942
HMS Kelvin of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, lays a smoke screen during destroyer exercises in the North Sea. Circa October 1940
HMAS Nepal approaches the Eastern Fleet flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth as a seaman prepares to fire line, which is held in canister by a second seaman
A picture showing a German airfield In Cyrenaica after an RAF raid. Dense smoke is seen drifting across the desert from the blazing remains of JU 62 troop-carriers
Pictures taken at Tunis Aerodrome on 12th November 1942, following an attack the previous day by Beaufighters of the Royal Air Force on enemy targets
HMS Fury leads the 8th destroyer flotilla during a fleet exercise close to Scapa Flow. Circa 1942
Pilots of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm watch the sun strike the snow covered mountains while on Arctic patrol aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable
The Royal Navy Hunt class destroyer HMS Meynell conceals herself behind a smoke screen of her own making during exercises at sea in the Second World War. November 1943
