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A fireman wearing the new National Fire Service cap and breast badge
Close up of the breast badge of a National Fire Service uniform. September 1941
R. A. F Intelligence officer at HQ during Second World War. 29th June 1944
Rank badges of the National Fire Service from Chief Regional Officer to Leading Fireman
The Faces featuring Rod Stewart perform at The Reading Festival Saturday August 12th 1972
Small high speed vessels, manned by officers and men of the Merchant Navy
Of ten Norwegian ships which attempted to escape to Britain from Gothenburg
For 7 hours early in 1943 the corvette HMS Lavender lay alongside a blazing Panama
A German bomb explodes on a British ship of the R royal Navy during an engagement in
Picture highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region
Mediterranean Sea battle units of the Italian Fleet engaged by a British Convoy escort en
The passage of the convoy from the west to Malta on June 14 / 16 was under the command of
Picture taken aboard Royal Navy cruiser HMS Manchester in Northern Waters highlighting
An Admiralty statement on 14th August 1942 stated that supplies
Picture showing how Britain prepared for an attempted invasion by German forces during
These EWS (Emergency Water Supply) tanks, typical of hundreds all over the country
A Kamikaze pilot of the Imperial Japanese Air Force in a suicide attack on the American
Men of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards manning one of the thousands of blockhouses built
On the Italian warfront the Germans shell Allied positions with propaganda leaflets
How to extinguish an incendiary bomb. If a stirrup pump is unavailable
Training drill at a coastal battery on the East Coast. Circa September 1940
How to extinguish a fire bomb. A man crouches in the doorway of a smoke filled room
This photograph was taken by an enemy bomber during the Luftwaffe
A London timber stack reduced to charcoal after being ravaged by fire during the blitz
New cap and badge button approved for the British Army Catering Corps during World War II
British radar system located somewhere in England. August 15th 1945
U. S. task forces advances into Burma jungle. 14th February 1945
British prepare for the big push into Germany. (In what would be the final few weeks of
To counter possible attempts by the enemy to land troops on Scottish lochs, by seaplanes
Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg
"Ditched air crew"in dinghy paddle towards the lifeboat as it touches down
Sergeant H. Clinker of Bexleyheath, and his gun crew, eat their Christmas dinner around
A dummy Landing Craft Tank, Mk 11, of rigid construction designed by Messrs Cox & Co of
A general intensive training of British Army units in Northern Ireland is being
Nine survivors of a blazing American Superfortress plane which crashed in the Indian
Some Ninth Army Medics man an assault boat to evacuate wounded across the swift
French refugees from the Verson area are seen on the Cheux-Colleville road
At various points on the English coast the public are able to enjoy the delights of a day
The wreckage of a Heinkel bomber which crashed on to 25 Victoria Road, Clacton
Canadian soldiers tend to French Refugees in Normandy shortly after the successful
Picture taken on the Burma rivers. Camoflaged houseboats
Picture showing how Britain prepared a fiery reception for the Germans had they
Beaufighters strike at Japanese Rivercraft. Picture shows the scene after a bombing
The crew of a Short Sunderland flying boat, shot down recently in the Bay of Biscay by a
Air Attacks on Japanese supply lines in Burma. Allied Air forces are playing
RAF Beaufighters attack oil storage tanks at Sadaing Tank Farm, Yonangyaung, Burma
As the Soviet Red Army advance westward into Germany to meet the Allies
Infantry and armour of the British Second Army, launched a new attack on the German
A Royal Air Force bombing attack on Akyab, Japan. Picture is a direct hit
An askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in
One of Britains secret war achievements- the Military Port
Royal Air Force, RAF, photograph showing damage to enemy aircraft
The Central Telegraph Office in London through which more than a quarter of the total
A US combat patrol crossed into Hanweiller, Saar Basin, just alongside Saarguemines
Field Marshal Montgomery new offensive in the west. The new offensive south east of
British Army soldiers in training, practicing invasion exercises. April 1942
The parachute division of the sixth airborne division advance towards Hanover. Germany
A collection of some 60 paintings by outstanding Canadian artists
R. A. F. armoured car in the desert. 19th December 1940
Signing the Armistice between the Soviet Union, United States of America
A Messerschmitt 110 goes down in flaming pieces before the massed fire power of
The badge worn by personnel of the HM Minesweepers. April 1945
American soldiers near the Salween River. 21st December 1944
The badge of the South East Asia Command (SEAC), the body set up to be in overall charge
Captured German radar at Pachino, Sicily. 15th August 1945
At the beginning of the New Year thousands of sailors, marines
U.s Mars Task force advance in Burma. 15th February 1945
HMS Ashanti Puts In To Refit. April 1942, Naval Dockyard, England
British Army infantry in training exercises to keep a high level of fitness
Anti-air trainee in West Africa using Radar apparatus. 15th August 1945
London Blitz, Police, Firemen and Troops search wreckage, June 1942
Girl Aircraft Designers at Miles Aircraft Factory in Reading
Troops of the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex
Flying bomb incident at Arlington Road, Southgate, London, Tuesday 20th June 1944
Soldiers of the 1st Battalion Glasgow Highlanders seen here in their snow camouflage
British amphibious tanks leave the west bank of the Lower Rhine heading eastwards
A hazard of convoy duty for women in the Mechanised Transport Corps
An elderly German man in Plauen, on the US 3rd Army front
The solider in the corner waited quite a while for this bus, Why
Flying bomb incident at Petherton Road, Highbury, London
U-boat sinking in Atlantic Ocean, successfully taken out by a Short Sunderland British
Behind the biggest smoke screen in the history of war, British armour
Father Christmas surprises children sheltering in the tunnels of London Underground
FFI patrol of 1st French Army carries a caricature of Hitler away from a Rhine River
