Air Defence is Home Defence
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief of Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
Worth Fighting For - Worth Saving For
Women! You are Needed in the National Fire Service
Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall in London as they celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945.
Winston Churchill stands on a Covenanter tank of 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, to take the salute at an inspection of 9th Armoured Division near Newmarket, Suffolk, 16 May 1942.
Winston Churchill on board the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES during his journey to America to meet President Roosevelt, August 1941.
Winston Churchill holds a 'Tommy gun' during an inspection of invasion defences near Hartlepool, 31 July 1940.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at Scampton, 22 July 1943.
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
Let Us Go Forward Together'
Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, standing in front of a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft of No. 234 Squadron SAAF.
Carrots Keep You Healthy and Help You to See in the Blackout
Women welders making stirrup pump handles during the Second World War.
Women's Land Army : Ditching
Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.
Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, inspects tanks of 7th Armoured Division in Berlin, 21 July 1945.
Winston Churchill lights a cigar in the back of a jeep while touring the Normandy beaches with General Mongomery, 12 June 1944.
Winston Churchill inspects the new Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 rifle during a visit to 53rd Division in Kent, 20 November 1942.
Winston Churchill inspects air raid damage at Ramsgate in Kent, 28 August 1940.
Winston Churchill addressing merchant ships' crews and dockers at Liverpool, April 1941.
Wing Commander Raymond Harries, commanding the Tangmere Wing, in the cockpit of his Spitfire Mk XII, 1943.
War Weapons Week in a Country Town
