01447 Collection (page 2)

Photograph taken during a daylight attack on the steel and engineering works of the Cie Fives-Lille, and the locomotive, carriage and wagon works of the Sec

Aerial photograph taken a few hours after Flying Fortress bombers of the US Eighth Air Force had bombed the huge Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg on the Danube river near the Austrian border

This photograph, taken during a night attack by Allied aircraft on Piraeus harbour, Greece, on 11th - 12th January 1944, shows bombs bursting in the target area

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

Brenheim feel applies in North Africa. Serial of these attacks took place during the first week of fighting in Libya and were directed against the enemys feel supplies

Allied Middle East bombings Strafe Axis supply lines. Aircraft of the Allied Air Forces are hammering supply lines serving Rommels forces in Western Desert

Middle East, score direct hits in attack of Benghazi harbour. R. A
Middle East, score direct hits in attack of Benghazi harbour. R.A.F attack on Benghazi harbour showing bombs bursting on the docks and shipping in the harbour during a raid

The worlds greatest traffic jam - Rommels headlong retreat from Egypt. This photograph shows the extraordinary scene presented to Allied Airmen when Rommel began his retreat from El Alamein

Tripoli: Trapped ambulance men saved by New Zealanders. During one of the enemys periodical nuisance night raids on Tripoli, driver G.Mackay, RASC

Bombs bursting among fleeing German vehicles in the Western Desert, with one of the formation Baltimores which laid the eggs. 6th November 1942

Smashing Allied air attacks support 8th Armys rapid advance. Relentless attack by aircraft of the Allied Air Force on axis transport supported the rapid 8th army advance

Non stop Allied air attacks in the Middle East. A broadside attack on a train in the Western Desert, an R.A.F. long range fighter shooing up the train set on fire the ammunition on the anti-aircraft

Enemy aircraft destroyed, shipping damage transport and petrol browsers damaged and destroyed and railway trucks set on fire was a result of an afternoons work by four long rang fighters of

French fly Spitfires in Corsica - Inter-Allied Air Co-Operation. The V sign and the cross of Lorraine badge of General. De Gaulles French army - is stencilled almost everywhere in red blue of

HMS Kipling with her guns manned and ready for action whilst on patrol in the Western Approaches. Circa May 1940

The half-wing badge, with an encircled E approved for wear by flight engineers. 26th January 1943

The Mayor of Bootle (Alderman Js Kelly) presenting the blanket which the Queen sent to Bootle. Mrs Riley who lost her husband and her 11 year old daughter in a recent raid

Picture shows an injured British airmen, shot down over The Netherlands, but still smiling. He is not named. Picture taken 16th May 1940

RAF Rehabilitation Centre in The Wirral on the Cheshire Coast. Picture shows (RIGHT) Flight Sergeants J Thompson, DFM of Woolton

A Russian Surgeon operates on a soldier of the Red Army, in a tent in the snow, with constant snow drifts and often sub zero temperatures. Picture taken 2nd April 1943

A boxing match on the Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary now a troop ship. Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture taken looking down from the mast. Picture taken 15th October 1941

British naval ratings watching the crew of the surrendered submarine U532 berthed in Gladstone Dock on the River Mersey, Liverpool, Merseyside, yesterday

Part of the Gun Crew on The Cunard White Star Liner Queen Mary. Liverpool, Merseyside. Picture taken 15th October 1941

Mobile Canteen presented to Liverpool in Merseyside, by East Liverpool in Ohio, America. The Lord Mayor Alderman Sidney Jones pictured having his tea. Picture taken 5th June 1941

Vyner Road South, Birkenhead, Merseyside. A huge crater in the garden after an air raid. No one was injured though. Picture taken 1st November 1940

Terence De Marney in Liverpool, Merseyside. He is in the foreground, right. Terence De Marney was a British film, stage, radio and television actor

The British destroyer HMS Fury refuels from the cruiser HMS Trinidad despite heavy seas and falling snow whilst on patrol in the North Atlantic. 9th March 1942

King George VI inspecting the latest Typhoon aircraft fitted with rocket projectile apparatus at an R.A.F. station. Circa July 1944

Wrecked enemy aircraft on Tunis airfield, after Allied air attacks. One of the first pictures received from North Africa of damage resulting from Allied air attacks on El Aouina Tunis

HMS King Alfred, once a college, producing navigators for HM Ships. Picture shows cadets and their pilotage cycles working out their courses on the rugby football ground

Selby, Yorkshire. The army and volunteers searching the wreckage of a house after 7 members of a bomber plane crashed. Picture taken 12th May 1944

The scene after a British plane crashed on to building in Chichester. Sussex. Caption suggests its a laundry building, but handwriting is hard to read. Picture taken 13th May 1944

A plane crashed into two homes in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Rescue team looking for survivors. Picture taken 8th July 1944

Bomb proof Submarine pens at Trondheim. 21st May 1945

A bomber aircraft, crash landed somewhere in England Picture taken 17th August 1943. Caption suggests it could be the Hull area of the country

1st mate taking down a message form a nearby Destroyer. Picture taken 24th August 1943

Sergenat W Page of Coulsdon, Surrey, and Leading Aircraftman G Skelsey of London fit a long-range fuel tank to a Hawker Typhoon Mark IB of No. 137 Squadron RAF at B78 Eindhoven, Holland

Benghazi harbour havoc, results of Allied bombing. When Allied troops entered Benghazi they found evidence of the effectiveness of the constant

Navy ratings (cadets) at the on land HMS Gordon in Gravesend, Kent. They are learning how to tie different knots Picture taken 17th September 1942

A small boat in the sea. Location unknown. Caption suggests the skipper is looking out for any enemy. Picture taken 24th August 1943

Wreckage of a twin German aircraft on an enemy airfield after raid by R. A. F
Wreckage of a twin German aircraft on an enemy airfield after raid by R.A.F. 10th October 1942

Airborne soldiers board a Airspeed Horsa gliders in preparation for moving off to their take off positions during an invasion exercise in South East England. Circa September 1943

R. A. F. bombs on SFAX, Axis key port in North Africa. (Picture
R.A.F. bombs on SFAX, Axis key port in North Africa. (Picture) Part of the dockside railway yards at SFAX, showing the heavy damage inflicted by Allied bombing. 9th January 1943

The 8th army advance through the Western Desert has brought German harbours and supply bases in Tunisia within range of Allied air attack from the East as well as from the West

It is now possible to reveal the Interesting story behind the shooting down of a JU 83 from Fair Island off the North of Scotland

Decorated New Zealand Bomber Squadron. This Wellington bomber squadron has made many raids over Germany and occupied territory. Picture taken 24th May 1941

A lady member of The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NaFI). She is not named. Picture taken 23rd November 1941

Lady Torrington, popular with the lads and lassies who frequent the canteen run by The Catholic Womens League in Bicester, Oxfordshire. She is pictured serving tea and a bun to the customers

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