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Owing to peculiar air conditions and mechanical difficulties, the B-24 Liberator bomber " Golden Gaboon", piloted by let Lieutenant Wilbur T

While at sea the British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Kenya received an urgent signal from the Australian destroyer " Norman" requesting the transfer of a member of her crew

A British Armoured Division operating near Pyingyaing between Kalewa and Shwebo, assembled armour in strength for the first time in the Burma campaign on Christmas Day and Boxing Day

"Anzio Odeon", a dug-out, sandbagged and camouflaged
" Anzio Odeon", a dug-out, sandbagged and camouflaged, where films are shown to the men of the British Army serving on the Italian Front at Anzio. 6th March 1944

Royal Engineers Transportation Training Centre during the Second World War. A railway coach being dismantles by trainees at the centre. 24th August 1943

British Army drummer George Mansbridge of 27 Anbrook Road, Reading during the Second World War. April 1956

Polish Independence Day Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. Picture shows: The march prior to the laying of the wreath. Circa 1945

Picture illustrating the tremendous welcome accorded to the British forces who liberated the Greek capital on 14th October 1944

These two- men had a tough task : they had to breach a mine field barring the approach to Brachelen, Germany. They camouflaged their M.1. rifles with adhesive tape to avoid being seen by the enemy

The making of the Manipur road. Circa July 1945

Japanese train in Rangoon (Yangon). June 1945

Landing craft being unloaded at the Rangoon (Yangdon) beach head. May 1945

Flying Officer R. B. Connell of Gourock, Scotland (left), Flying Officer J. A
Flying Officer R.B. Connell of Gourock, Scotland (left), Flying Officer J.A. Brown of West Hartlepool, Co, Durham (centre), and Sergeant P.F

British Army battery claims honour of the last shot on the Eighth Army battle front. The last shell in the hands of the man who fired it, Gunner Vernon Walker of Hampshire, Sussex

Miss Sarah Churchill, the Prime Ministers daughter with Wing Commander Hodsoll, Inspector General of Civil Defence Services

An American soldier stands on guard, surrounded American built locomotives at a rail junction somewhere in Britain". These locomotIves will be used to transport men

Two Consolidated Liberator B Mark VIs of No. 356 Squadron RAF based at Salbani, India, leave the smoke-covered target area after bombing a Japanese supply base

British mortar team during the attack to capture Meiktila. Circa February 1945

Allied troops land the Arakan stronghold. 16th February 1945

Landing craft travel up the Rangoon (Yangdon) river as smoke from an air strike obliterates all effective defence. May 1945

A Japanese Naval envoy comes aboard the HMS Nelson for preliminary surrender talks on August 29th 1945

Preliminary peace conference on board the HMS Nelson in Penang. 29th August 1945

Hiroshima bomb damage from aerial reconnaissance. Circa September 1945

British Marines escort Chinese women from an occupied area in Hong Kong. 30th August 1945

High explosive and sticks of 4 lb incendiary bombs explode on a Japanese supply dump in a wooded area at Taungup, on the coast of Western Burma

Preparations for the Allied invasion of Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. The mounting mass of materials produced by factories, and the training of men to use them

Field Marshal Busch, C in C German Armies in North West Europe, meets the man who defeated him, Field Marshall Montogmery, at the latters HQ on Luneburg Heath

The Red Army liberating Byelorussia (Belarus). Powerful guns in the firing position. The Soviets superiority in artillery has contributed to their victories. January 1944

Result of day and night Bombing on a Benghazi harbour by British and American aircraft. The diagram shows damaged German shipping. 22nd October 1942

A Ghurka of the 8th Army sports a 16 inch moustache during Second World War. 7th July 1943

Thousands of 3. 7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory
Thousands of 3.7 inch Anti Aircraft shell cases stacked up in a munitions factory somewhere in England during the Second World War. August 1941

British troops final clean up of Siegfried defences town. Tanks and Infantry advance through Kleve, Germany. Circa February 1945

Headquarters of German General Erwin Rommel in Libya. Circa 1940s

A rear gunner of the United States Army Air Force pictured in a Lockheed Hudson light bomber aircraft before embarking on a mission during the Second World War. July 1942

At this invasion port on the South Coast of England, Royal Navy postmen deliver 6000 letters every day to men and women serving in the ships taking part n the operations across the Channel in

British Army constructing gun emplacements near Alexandria, Egypt. 15th December 1940

The Middle Eastern choir who broadcast live on the BBC. 16th October 1944

British 8th Army Armour enters Marsa Matruh while the main British force pursues the retreating Afrika Korps. 12th November 1942

Summoned by the Nigerian Government, a Conference of Chiefs of the Nigerian Western provinces was held at the Mapo Hall in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria in 1943

Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps (Picture)

Before Bizerta fell to the Allied forces, a good deal of resistance had to be overcome in the streets of the town. French and US. troops fought battles in the streets all day long

Unopposed capture of valuable Burma Oil fields area is a most pointed indication of Japanese collapse. Troops probing down towards the Yenangyaung Road

At an aircraft receiving depot, cadets are being x-rayed in modern manner, miniature film being used. The films after development are projected on to a screen and cases of suspected T.B

Versatile Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers which have been operating from England for several weeks under the US Ninth Air Force

Firemen attend to a roaring blaze at a house on Tilehurst Road, London after it was struck by German incendiary bombs during the blitz in World War Two. Circa September 1940

RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters attack enemy shipping in the waters of the North Sea off the Dutch Coast on 1st March 1944 and score a hit with a torpedo on a medium sized merchant vessel

Advancing along the Irrawaddy basin road towards Sagaing and Manderlay, British troops of the 14th Army have captured the small Burmese village of Ywathitgyi in the face of fanatical Japanese

A party of boys from Army Cadet battalions from all parts of Southern England last week spent seven days at a REME School of Technical Training near Reading

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