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A British Army jungle patrol attacks a native "Basha", a bamboo hutA British Army jungle patrol attacks a native " Basha", a bamboo hut, in a banana grove while on the hunt for Japanese enemy soldiers in the swamps
Polish Army General and part of the Polish government in exile in England, General Wladislaw Anders attends a Polish Independence Day Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London
Along the Kohima - Imphal road in India, heavy rain will bring down landslides on the road making an awkward block. Then the Sappers rush to the rescue and begin to clear away the rock
Officers and men of the British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Lookout, adopted by Burnely and District. Photo shows: Men of the lookout, radar staff left to right: Able Seaman E
American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied by General Henri Giraud, leader of the Free French Forces, inspects a Guard of Honour formed by British Army soldiers during victory celebrations in
On 24th March 1945 it was announced that Allied Forces under Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery had crossed the Rhine on a wide front north of the Ruhr River in Germany
Among the first to come ashore during the landings at Ramree Island, Burma on 21st January 1945 was the RAF Advanced Assault Party
British troops of the 15th Indian Corps landing on Ramree Island. Supplies come ashore. February 1945
Allied D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, Northern France during the Second World War. American G.I. soldiers with equipment entering the landing craft before the invasion. June 1944
While on patrol in the Aegean Sea, crews of an RAF Fighter Command Middle East Beaufighter Squadron struck and destroyed a large tonnage enemy ship, the SS Drache
One of the oldest destroyers at sea today, the 27-year old British Royal Navy Destroyer HMS Watchman, which has just completed a fine record of 200, 000 miles steamed in this war alone
A close up of a 6 naval gun guarding the coast of Iceland during the Second World War. Circa June 1941
Before going on night work these Midland workers do half an hours physical culture under their instructress (seen in front of class) Mrs Eve Hanwell. May 1944
The Gibraltar Defence Force was formed time ago, so that volunteers from the younger residents of the colony have a share in their defence of it
800 yards from the enemy lines, British infantry are entrenched on the 5th Army main front in Italy. By day they live under fire from enemy mortar shells
Following the liberation of Beek, Netherlands which was announced on 25th September, came one of the historic moments of this war
Vehicles tried unsuccessfully to get through to an isolated British outpost in Italy. Their tracks made excellent runs for these Canadian volunteer ski-troopers; saved them considerable trouble in
Scenes photographed on June 28th, 1944 as British tanks and. infantry go into action between Tilly and Caen to consolidate a position only held lightly on the previous day
Recently some RAF officers visited a Roman Catholic community of Indians and Anglo-Indians in a Burmese village in a liberated area
Canadian soldiers on the Italian front during the Second World War. New field telephone device but the same " Old Bill"
Men of the Royal Corps of Signals who provided the land communications required to co-ordinate the air offensive which made possible the Allied victory in Burma
To maintenance units behind RAF forward airstrips in Burma come all types of aircraft needing repairs from Tigers to Thunderbolts
At the request of the military authorities in Burma sixteen African Chiefs were invited to tour Ceylon, India and the Burma Front to visit men of their tribes serving with the British Forces
In two attacks Allied heavy and medium bombers recently destroyed, a heavily fortified strongpoint at Ningthoukhong in Burma
Punjab troops act as firefighters on the Arakan front. Villages on the front suffer from enemy bombs and shellfire. Here Indians of the 16th Punjab Regiment help to extinguish a village fire
Picture taken early in 1944 on the 14th Army front in Arkan. Japanese infiltration groups trying to reach Imphal, Manipur, suffered very heavy casualties at the hands of British and Indian troops
RAF Personnel, whose job it is to guard the forward airstrips on the Burma front, keep up to the mark with a periodical course in jungle warfare
One of a series of new photographs from Yugoslavia, where the guerrilla armies have achieved many successes against the German forces of occupation and their quisling followers
The Battle of Kohima proved the turning point of the Japanese U-Go offensive into India in 1944 during the Second World War
On a narrow strip of beach on the Normandy coast of Northern France, reinforcements of American assault troops assemble before moving in to the interior of the continent in support of the Allied
Aerial view showing damage caused to the Creil railway marshalling yards one o clock on 23rd March 1944, just after B-26 Marauder medium bombers of the US Ninth Air Force dropped more than 300 tons
A conference of Nigerian chiefs in West Africa. (Picture) Chiefs arriving for the conference (left) Chief Awujale of Ijebu Ode
Baboon mascots in a South African camp in the Western Desert during the Second World War. 22nd August 1941
American Army Ambulances get ready to drive ashore at Slapton Sands in South Devon as the bow ramps of LCTs drop to the sand during rehearsals for Operation Overlord
Child eChild evacuees from England arrive in Australia during the Second World War. 16th December 1940
Men of the Home Guard taking part in a training exercise with the aid of a Valentine tank. 8th August 1941
Women of the WRNS doing skilled jobs such as carpenters and fitters at a Royal Naval Depot show themselves capable craftswomen. Photo shows: A maintenance worker on the turning machine
Burning coal dumps at Spitsbergen seen from the air. 150, 000 tonnes were burnt to prevent the Germans from using it. Circa September 1941
Allied forces raid the German island garrisons of Norway, seen here at a dressing station in Vagsoy. 31st December 1941
Nigerian tin miners at work during the Second World War. 30th January 1944
Soldiers of the British Eighth Army take control of a town in Sicily following the Allied landings on the island in the Second World War. August 1943
Nigerian Sappers for the Royal West African Frontier Force. (Picture) African recruits trying on their Army boots for the first at the Engineers Training Centre, Bukuru, Northern Nigeria
f all the man-sized jobs women have tackled during the war, none is perhaps bigger than that undertaken by Mrs Taylor of Bury, Lancashire
On the FifthArmy Front in Italy during the Second World War. In their drive from the south towards Imola and Bologna, British troops of the 5th Army in Italy have captured Monte Penzola
German army retreat in Montenegro during the Second World War. South of Niksic, three enemy divisions are trying to force their way north along the Niksic road
RAF Liberators of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, recently made a daylight attack on an important Japanese held railway station at Pak Nam Phau in Burma
The Channel Islands, the only part of the United Kingdom to be occupied during the Second World War, were finally liberated at 7.14 am on 9th May 1945 when Major General Heine of the german Army
In a Ministry of Supply filling factory, shells are cleaned up after the explosive has been put in during the Second World War
