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A bullseye scored by the Royal Navy dreadnought battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during gunnery practice. This photograph was taken from the ship towing the target which can be seen

Picture shows young boys playing in the ruins of housing decimated in the Blitz of World War Two. The Blitz lasted from 7th September 1940 to May 1941. The German Luftwaffe bombed across Britain

National Fire Service workers Mrs E Berry, Miss G Heath and Mrs G Follmen tarring water pipes in Devon during the Second World War. 14th August 1942

After long months and even years of hard training and battle, US soldiers register apparent happiness at embarkation for invasion of Normandy, Northern France

Sailors of the Royal Navy gallant H Class Destroyer HMS Hardy, assigned to the Home fleet, return home to England after the ship was capsized in the First Battle of Narvik

Officers Milk Bar at the Palace Hotel, Paignton. Picture shows: Mrs Bateman, Mrs Houlding and Tony Ridler who is holding the model plane. Circa 1941

Secretary of State for War Mr Oliver Stanley inspects the gas protective clothing during his visit to Canadian troops at Aldershot. 23rd February 1940

RAF pilots who have occasion to bale out over the sea are being instructed in the sailing and navigation of their craft by the members of an amateur sailing club, the Corinthian Sailing Club, who

The German battleship Bismarck burns on the horizon approximately 350 miles west of Brest, France in the Atlantic Ocean after being engaged by the British battleships King George V

Blood test at Shrublands House, Morgan Avenue in Torquay, Devon during the Second World War. August 1941

The Royal Hospital, Salford, Manchester, after it was bombed in World War Two. Bombed in June 1941. Raids on Manchester started in August 1940 and lasted until June 1941

The Norwegian cargo ship Burgos seen here sinking after she struck a mine in the North Sea north of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, United Kingdom. All 32 crew were rescued by HMS Pelican 28th March 1940

Inside a house, badly damaged in The Bristol Blitz of World War Two. The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England, by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War

Major General Sir Iven Mackay reviews an Australian division on the eve of his departure for Australia, where he will take supreme command of the Commonwealths military forces for home defence

Australian Minister of the Army P. C. Spender in Cairo. January 1941
Australian Minister of the Army P.C. Spender in Cairo. January 1941

Royal Airforce Flying Officer Alan Preston with his partner Agnes Brown. The couple are engaged to be married. Picture taken circa 1st May 1942

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The MV Domalaseen here beached betweenHurst CastleandThe Needles in the Solent on 6 March 1940. Following an attack on her by a Heinkel HE 111 of KG26 on the 2nd March 1940

Army Guns. Training exercise. Picture shows a gun mounted on a boat, (numbered 27). Location unknown. Picture taken circa 1st February 1942

Attempts by dozens of enemy planes to harass British Convoys in the English Channel have so far met with little success. Hit and run tactics have been foiled by the speed

A mobile Broadcasting Company appeals to hidden German snipers to surrender themselves as American forces occupy the town Saint Malo in Brittany, North-Western France. 16th August 1944

The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Stalker. January 1944

Binnen Alster area showing the deployment of camouflage on the area. The innermost of the two lakes in the heart of Hamburg - has been camouflaged by means of huge floating rafts to represent a

RAF Mosquito intruders which gained fame for their train busting exploits while operating from Malta to Sicily, are now carrying on their work from bases in Italy

American troops disembarking at Cardiff docks during the Second World War, 1943

When six Spitfire pilots cams upon I8 Luftwaffe M*109s near Rome recently, they shot down nine of them in four minutes. The Spitfire pilots

As recently reported, the Norwegian Air Force has taken over a general reconnaissance squadron which is operating from an English aerodrome somewhere in the United Kingdom

These soldiers stride off their landing craft onto the rocky shores of Kiska Island on invasion day. Carrying full packs they came prepared to meet the Japanese enemy

Cardiff, Wales, during The Blitz in World War Two. The Cardiff Blitz refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II

It is now revealed that during the most critical period of the Battle of the Atlantic a number of British merchant ships were equipped with flight decks for the launching

American troops entraining at M shed at Kings Dock, Swansea after their journey from Boston on the ocean liner SS Santa Rosa. 18th October 1943

American infantrymen edge their way through the streets of Saint-Malo, in Brittany, North-Western France. 16th August 1944

Sweeping the snow covered flight deck of the British escort carrier HMS Fencer during a convoy patrol in Northern waters in the Second World War

The Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Pursuer arrives at a British port during the Second World War. Four of her Gruman Wildcat fighters successfully defended a valuable Atlantic convoy in a night action

The Eighth Army moving North and Northwest of Taranto, former Italian naval base, has captured Matera inland and Bari on the coast

The Gneisenau battle cruiser in a floating dock at Keil. February 1942

American soldiers laden with equipment and weapons assemble on board a small landing craft. ahead of the D-Day invasion and landings on the coast of Normandy, Northern France. Circa 4th June 1944

Infantrymen gather in Bastogne, Belgium to regroup after being cut away from their regiment by Germans in the enemy drive in this area. December 1944

Manchester, United Kingdom, pictures taken during The Blitz in World War Two. Area unknown. Emergency services hosing down a fire in a street

A flak landing craft equipped with anti-air weaponry. October 1943

One of the first official RAF photographs of Berlin since its fall. Taken by a low-flying Mosquito of the RAF Film Production Unit

The Battle of Saint-Lo, one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows which took place between 7th - 19th July 1944

RAF Balloon Barrage men were among the first Allied troops to land on the beaches at Salerno, Southern Italy. Their job was to keep low flying enemy aircraft from bombing

The German liner Bremen after being bombed by the R. A. F. in Bremerhaven, Germany
The German liner Bremen after being bombed by the R.A.F. in Bremerhaven, Germany. A - bow smoking B - Stern smoking C - Amidships burnt out D - Small craft Circa 1941

A US mortar team uses a cart to move their equipment in the Venafro sector on the Italian front near Monte Sammucro. 5th January 1944

Over two hundred and fifty enemy aircraft have been shot down since D-day by night fighters operating from bases on the continent

British escort carriers Campania and Nairana where responsible for several kills when U-boats and enemy aircraft tried to attack an important convoy on its way both to and from Russia

In a Combined Operation on the night 27th and 28th February 1942, joint forces of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force attacked an destroyed an important German radio location post at

The Binner Alster area in Hamburg, pictured before it was camouflaged. July 1941

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