Historical Period - Second World War – Page 3

The Home Front in Britain during the Second World War

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VE DAY Celebrations in London, 8 May 1945

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Wartime Communications: The Work of the Court Post Office, Buckingham Palace c.1941

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Operation Overlord (The Normandy landings): D-day 6 June 1944

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Tous ensemble pour une seule victoire [All together for a single victory]

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Women welders making stirrup pump handles during the Second World War.

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THE AUXILIARY HOSPITAL, DOVER HOUSE, ROEHAMPTON

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OPERATION PEDESTAL, AUGUST 1942

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Free French soldiers attend a mass at sunrise during the siege of Bardia in Libya, December 1940.

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Battle of Germany

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Boys creating an allotment on a bomb site in London during 1942.

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Men of the 51st Highland Division charging with fixed bayonets during a training exercise in the desert, North Africa, 23 September 1942.

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A portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park while commanding RAF squadrons on Malta, September 1942.

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A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941.

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Aircrew of No. 106 Squadron photographed in front of a Lancaster at Syerston, Nottinghamshire, on the morning after the raids on Genoa, 22-23 October 1942.

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Cecil Beaton photograph of an RAF bomber crew being debriefed by the squadron intelligence officer on their return from a night raid over Germany, 1941.

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WAAF radar operator Denise Miley plotting aircraft on a cathode ray tube in the Receiver Room at Bawdsey 'Chain Home' station, May 1945.

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Nighttime view of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London in 1940.

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Flight Lieutenant C L F "Jimmy" Talalla of No. 122 Squadron RAF, standing in front of his North American Mustang Mark III at B12/ Ellon, Normandy.

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A ground crewman helps a pilot of No. 601 Squadron RAF into the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX at Venafro, Italy, 12 May 1944.

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Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief of Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.

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Hawker Hurricane Mk IIC of No. 166 Wing in flight from Chittagong in India, May 1943.

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Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXs of No. 242 Squadron RAF at Calenzana, Corsica, after a patrol over the invasion beaches in southern France, 17 August 1944.

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Wing Commander J E 'Johnnie' Johnson, commanding No. 144 (Canadian) Wing, on the the wing of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX with his Labrador retriever Sally, at Bazenville, Normandy, 31 July 1944.

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