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An askari was a local soldier serving in the armies of the European colonial powers in Africa, ... During World War II, (Picture) Askaris washing in the Chindwin River. 9th February 1945

One of Britains secret war achievements- the Military Port. After the fall of France in 1940 the South and East Coast British ports were virtually closed to large ocean going ships

Royal Air Force, RAF, photograph showing damage to enemy aircraft and tents on Sungei Patani Aerodrome, Malaya, after it has been occupied by the Japanese. Picture taken circa 7th February 1942

The Central Telegraph Office in London through which more than a quarter of the total telegraph traffic of Britain passed, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of 29th - 30th December

A US combat patrol crossed into Hanweiller, Saar Basin, just alongside Saarguemines, North East France/Germany border area

Field Marshal Montgomery new offensive in the west. The new offensive south east of Nijmegen, Holland, The Netherlands, which launched on Thursday 8th February 1945, is making good progress

British Army soldiers in training, practicing invasion exercises. April 1942

The parachute division of the sixth airborne division advance towards Hanover. Germany. 13th April 1945. They are pictured on the road to Scharrel

A collection of some 60 paintings by outstanding Canadian artists and graphically illustrating Canadians in all branches of the service, will be on display for the first time at the National Gallery

R. A. F. armoured car in the desert. 19th December 1940
R.A.F. armoured car in the desert. 19th December 1940

Signing the Armistice between the Soviet Union, United States of America and Great Britain on one hand and Romania on the other in Moscow on 12th September 1944

A Messerschmitt 110 goes down in flaming pieces before the massed fire power of the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force in their attack on the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt

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 of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during World War II. May 1945

Captured German radar at Pachino, Sicily. 15th August 1945

At the beginning of the New Year thousands of sailors, marines, soldiers and airmen of Combined Operations Command will be wearing the Commands new badge

U.s Mars Task force advance in Burma. 15th February 1945
U.S Mars Task force advance in Burma. 15th February 1945

HMS Ashanti Puts In To Refit. April 1942, Naval Dockyard, England. Scenes In The Dockyard During The Refit Of The Destroyer. Women dockyard workers coming ashore from the destroyer. April 1942

British Army infantry in training exercises to keep a high level of fitness. The british Armed forces are maintaining the highest possible standard

Anti-air trainee in West Africa using Radar apparatus. 15th August 1945

London Blitz, Police, Firemen and Troops search wreckage, June 1942. Sunday Pictorial Published Picture 07/06/1942

Girl Aircraft Designers at Miles Aircraft Factory in Reading, being taught how to get grace and beauty in the lines, and the aircraft they plan, by Polish dancer, Pole Nirenska

Troops of the 7th Somerset Light Infantry, 43rd (Wessex) Division resting in the village of Bauchen during the assault on Geilenkirchen in Germany, 18th November 1944

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 on patrol at Gangelt, Germany. 11th January 1945

British amphibious tanks leave the west bank of the Lower Rhine heading eastwards. Another tank can be seen behind it on the river bank. The photograph was taken by a low flying RAF aircraft

A hazard of convoy duty for women in the Mechanised Transport Corps, Jeep stuck in the mud, on a cold winter day, Circa 1944

An elderly German man in Plauen, on the US 3rd Army front, eats a meal from a cup which remained whole when his house was wrecked during the advance of General Pattons troops. 23rd April 1945

The solider in the corner waited quite a while for this bus, Why?, Well, hes just home on leave and the conductress is his wife, He is Corporal Hugh Cameron of the RASC, Royal Army Service Corps

Flying bomb incident at Petherton Road, Highbury, London, causing fracturing of water mains and flooding of basements in nearby housing, Sunday 2nd July 1944

U-boat sinking in Atlantic Ocean, successfully taken out by a Short Sunderland British flying boat patrol bomber, April 1944. Sunday Pictorial Published Picture 23/04/1944

Behind the biggest smoke screen in the history of war, British armour and infantry move into position for the offensive - the ?final heave?

Father Christmas surprises children sheltering in the tunnels of London Underground, December 1940. Sunday Pictorial Published Picture 22/12/1940

FFI patrol of 1st French Army carries a caricature of Hitler away from a Rhine River position. The placard was displayed on one bank of the river

Liberator bombers of Strategic Air Force of the Eastern Air Command flew over 2, 300 miles to bomb the newly built Japanese port of Khao Huagang in Southern Burma

A general view of part of a Malta relief convoy and escort, with a salvo of bombs falling near one of the Merchant ships. August 1943

Reconnaissance photograph of the centre of the German city of Brunswick following an attack by RAF Lancaster bombers on the 14th October 1944

All the large cooling towers at the at the Bohlen Synthetic Oil plan near Leipzig were partially destroyed, loading sheds and distillation plant considerably damage

Back from a successful patrol in Far Eastern waters, a British submarine arrives back at the depot ship. April 1944

A reconnaissance photograph taken by the RAF of the completely destroyed town of Duren, Germany, after the daylight attack by RAF Lancaster Bombers of Nos, 4, 6 and 8 Groups

Members of HMS Torbays crew with the ships Jolly Rogers of success. In front is the old commission Jolly Roger and behind is the one for the new commission. April 1944

Twenty three buildings and installations at the Marseburg Synthetic Oil plant, 20 miles west of Leipzig were damaged during the attack by the US 8th Air Force heavy bombers on the 20th July 1944

Survivors of a sunken U-boat in one-man dinghies while others crowd into two larger rafts. September 1944

B 25 Mitchell bombers of the 12th US Army Air Force in support of the Allies in Anzio. circa February 1944

First picture of the Soviet Red Army in Vienna. capital of Austria captured by troops of the Third Ukrainian Front on 13th April 1945 after eight days of stubborn fighting

Damage to the Rheinmetall Borsig AG plant in Dusseldorf following an attack by bombers of RAF Bomber Command on the night of the 22nd/23rd April 1944

Cutting the neck. Heavy high explosive concentration of bombs, dropped by the US 8th Air Forces Third Division cuts across the choke point where the rails narrow to funnel over the rail over canal

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