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A fireman wearing the new National Fire Service cap and breast badge. The number takes the place of the name of the brigade going forwards. September 1941
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 1944R.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. September 1941
Small high speed vessels, manned by officers and men of the Merchant Navy, have run the enemy blockade of the Skagerrak to bring valuable war materials from Sweden
Of ten Norwegian ships which attempted to escape to Britain from Gothenburg, Sweden in March, 1941, one, a new 10, 000 ton tanker the B.P. Newton, arrived safely at a British port
For 7 hours early in 1943 the corvette HMS Lavender lay alongside a blazing Panama tanker in the Caribbean Sea while the Corvettes crew fought the flames
A German bomb explodes on a British ship of the R royal Navy during an engagement in the Mediterranean Sea during the Second World War. 2nd June 1941
Picture highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region, taken on board the Royal Navy destroyer ship HMS Milne in Northern Waters shows sailors wearing Arctic hat fashions
Mediterranean Sea battle units of the Italian Fleet engaged by a British Convoy escort en route from Alexandria, Egypt to Malta. Picture shows: A Royal Navy Cruiser smoke-screening the the convoy
The passage of the convoy from the west to Malta on June 14 / 16 was under the command ofThe passage of the convoy from the west to Malta on June 14/16 was under the command of Vice- Admiral Curtesis. It was sighted
Picture taken aboard Royal Navy cruiser HMS Manchester in Northern Waters highlighting the the bitter cold conditions of the Artic region. Circa May 1941
An Admiralty statement on 14th August 1942 stated that supplies and reinforcements had reached the fortress of Malta despite very heavy enemy concentrations designed to prevent their passage
Picture showing how Britain prepared for an attempted invasion by German forces during the Second World War. Weapons developed by the Petroleum Warfare Department include this vertical flame throwing
These EWS (Emergency Water Supply) tanks, typical of hundreds all over the country, have had so much rubbish thrown into them that their usefulness for fire-fighting is seriously affected
A Kamikaze pilot of the Imperial Japanese Air Force in a suicide attack on the American navy warship USS Sangamon in the Pacific Ocean near Okinawa. 4th May 1945
Men of the 7th Battalion, Green Howards manning one of the thousands of blockhouses built around the coast of Britain and elsewhere as part of the coastal defences against possible German invaders
On the Italian warfront the Germans shell Allied positions with propaganda leaflets. British and American soldiers collect the leaflets as souvenirs which do not weight their kits heavily
How to extinguish an incendiary bomb. If a stirrup pump is unavailable, a half-filled sand bag should be held up to protect the face and upper body
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 and aims his stirrup pump around the edge of the door in an attempt to extinguish the fire. January 1941
This photograph was taken by an enemy bomber during the Luftwaffes first attack of the war on the British mainland, when, on October 16th 1939
A London timber stack reduced to charcoal after being ravaged by fire during the blitz. December 1940
New cap and badge button approved for the British Army Catering Corps during World War II. May 1941
British radar system located somewhere in England. August 15th 1945
U. S. task forces advances into Burma jungle. 14th February 1945U.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 World War Two in Europe). Up and down the banks of the Rhine, thousands of troops keep the smoke curtain going
To counter possible attempts by the enemy to land troops on Scottish lochs, by seaplanes, armed motor boat patrols have been established
Units of General Transport, RASC, Medical Corps, Hamburg, Royal Engineers and CREs embark on a landing ship tank from Hamburg, Germany bound for Norway
"Ditched air crew"in dinghy paddle towards the lifeboat as it touches down" Ditched air crew" in dinghy paddle towards the lifeboat as it touches down. Lifeboat Dropped From Air. 13 July 1945, Lee-On-Solent
Sergeant H. Clinker of Bexleyheath, and his gun crew, eat their Christmas dinner around their gun. The sit amid the rubble
A dummy Landing Craft Tank, Mk 11, of rigid construction designed by Messrs Cox & Co of Watford Used as a decoy in South East Coast harbour when preparing for the Invasion of France
A general intensive training of British Army units in Northern Ireland is being undertaken to prepare them for offensive operations in the event of invasion
Nine survivors of a blazing American Superfortress plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean have been recovering in hospital in Calcutta after rescue by two RAF Catalina flying boats
Some Ninth Army Medics man an assault boat to evacuate wounded across the swift flowing Roer River during the assault under deadly fire
French refugees from the Verson area are seen on the Cheux-Colleville road. 7th July 1944
At various points on the English coast the public are able to enjoy the delights of a day at the seaside as they did in happier pre-war days
The wreckage of a Heinkel bomber which crashed on to 25 Victoria Road, Clacton, killing the aircrafts crew and Frederick and Dorothy Gill who were home at number 25 when the plane crash landed
Canadian soldiers tend to French Refugees in Normandy shortly after the successful Allied landings during the Second World War. Many of the French refugees had not eaten for three or more days
Picture taken on the Burma rivers. Camoflaged houseboats and shelters have not deceived the crews of searching RAF Beaufighters, and cannon shells strike one of the Houseboat Has string fires
Picture showing how Britain prepared a fiery reception for the Germans had they attempted an invasion. Oil Defences capable of setting the English Channel ablaze were evolved - billowing smoke
Beaufighters strike at Japanese Rivercraft. Picture shows the scene after a bombing at Yothaya, a few miles south of Magwe on the Irrawaddy, Burma, after an attack recently by RAF Beaufighters
The crew of a Short Sunderland flying boat, shot down recently in the Bay of Biscay by a JU 88 of the German Luftwaffe, was sighted by HMS Starling after a search of approximately 24 hours
Air Attacks on Japanese supply lines in Burma. Allied Air forces are playing an important part in the Burma fighting. Japanese supply lines are constantly hammered from the air
RAF Beaufighters attack oil storage tanks at Sadaing Tank Farm, Yonangyaung, Burma. World War Two. No actual year given for this picture, but Mirrorpix will suggest 1943
As the Soviet Red Army advance westward into Germany to meet the Allies, the German people, caught between two huge armies, jam roads in a frantic effort to get behind American lines
Infantry and armour of the British Second Army, launched a new attack on the German salient east of the MaS between Roermond (in The Netherlands) and Geilenkirchen (in Germany)
A Royal Air Force bombing attack on Akyab, Japan. Picture is a direct hit on the jetty. On the right is a 1, 700 ton supply vessel sunk in shallow water by the RAF in an earlier raid
