1944 Collection (#9)

Avro York C Mk. II prototype LV626
The sole Avro York C Mk.II prototype LV626, converted from the 1st prototype York, fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines and the central auxiliary fin, as fitted to production Yorks

Fairey Barracuda II MX613 with air-droppable lifeboat Date: circa 1944

Avro Lincoln PW932
Avro Lincoln 3rd Prototype PW932 (Lancaster B.Mk.IV) Date: circa 1944

Vickers Wellington B. Mk. X RP550
Vickers Wellington B.Mk.X RP550s 9X of No. 2 Ferry Pool Date: circa 1944

Fleet Air Arm - Grumman Hellcat I - FN322
From a negative of a reference photograph Date: circa 1944

SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, at London Gatwick, in 1949
SAI KZ-3 OY-DEB, (SAI - Skandinavisk Aero Industri A-S, Denmark), at Gatwick airport in 1949. The SAI KZ III Laerke (Lark)

Douglas Boston III with bombs on the under-wing store stations. Date: circa 1944

The Maquis (French Resistance) share in the liberation of France. Date: 1944

A new recruit joins the Maquis (French Resistance). Date: 1944

Ballet dancer Alexis Rassine in Le Spectre de la Rose
Ballet dancer Alexis Rassine (1919-1992) in Le Spectre de la Rose (with Margot Fonteyn). Date: 1944

Lilli Marlene - My Lilli of the Lamplight Music Sheet - Music Sheet. Date: 1944

Mitsubishi G4M2 Type 1 Betty
Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M2 Type 1 Betty Flying Date: 1944

Bombing Attack on Enemy Convoy of Ships Aerial-Photograp?
Bombing Attack on Enemy Convoy of Ships Aerial-Photography 01Deg24 N 05Deg00 E During WW2 Date: 1944

Junkers Ju-87D-3 Stuka
Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-87D-3 Stuka Flying with Personnel Pods in 1944 During Testing at the Forschungsanstalt GRAF Zeppelin, Stuttgart

Mitsubishi A6M5a Zero
Engineers Working on Rows of Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M5A Zeros of 63Rd Naval Air Corps Being Prepared for Embarkation Onto Carriers Date: 1944

Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6U2
A Captured Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf-109G6-U2 (Cn 412951) Wearing Royal Air Force RAF Marking Parked with Hangars Behind Date: 1944

Northrop JB-1A / JB-10 flying bomb
A Photo-Illustration of a Northrop Jb-10 / Jb-1A Pulsejet Engined Flying-Bomb Flying. it Was Unsucessfully Tested in 1945. a Single Ford Pj31 Pulsejet Engine Was Mounted in a Centerline Shroud

Heinkel He-177A-5
A Captured Luftwaffe Heinkel He-177A-5 in RAF Livery, Parked with Prise de Guerre Written on the Fuselage As Flown by Test-Pilot Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, Cbe, Dsc, Afc, Fraes

Avro 683 Lancaster B-2
A 576 Squadron Royal Airforce RAF Avro Lancaster B-2 Flying Enroute Date: 1944

Avro 683 Lancaster B-10
Royal Airforce RAF Avro Lancaster B-10 Flying Enroute Date: 1944

Curtiss-Wright 16ft 8ins, four-blade, hollow steel propeller in a propeller test cell at its Caldwell, New Jersey, plant, July 1944. Date: 1944

WW2 - Home Front - Red Cross Women playing bowls. Date: 1944

WW2 - Liberation of Paris - The Barricades
WW2 - Barricades, Liberation of Paris. " Man the barricades!" This cry which rang out on Monday, August 21st, 1944. Date: 1944

WW2 - Canadian Trooper repairing his bicycle in Normandy following the D-Day landings - June 1944. Date: 1944

WW2 - German tank driving through a burning Russian village
Photograph of a German tank driving through a burning Russian village in the Crimean area, 1941-1944 (c). From a collection of 34 photographs relating to different theatres in World War Two

WW2 - Map of China, Korea, Formosa and the southern part of
Map of China, Korea, Formosa and the southern part of Japan, 27 Mar 1944. Compiled and drawn in the Branch of Research and Analysis, oss

Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, 3rd pattern, 1943, carried at Normandy Landings, Sgts Scott, No 3 Commando, 1944. Unknown maker. Date: 1940

Commandos wade ashore from landing craft at Juno beach
Photograph showing Commando operations during the invasion of Normandy, June 1944: troops, some with bicycles, going ashore

Daphne du Maurier and children at Menabilly, 1944
Author and playwright Daphne du Maurier(1907-1989) tutoring her daughters Tessa(right) and Flavia at their desks, whilst her son Christian plays on a rocking horse nearby. Date: 1944

Daphne du Maurier and daughters at Menabilly, 1944
Author and playwright Daphne du Maurier(1907-1989) giving her daughter Tessa practical instruction at the piano at her Cornish home Menabilly in 1944

OCTU, Framewood Manor, Stoke Poges, Bucks, WW2
Group photo at OCTU (Officer Cadet Training Unit), Framewood Manor, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. 1944

Penicillin bottle
Bottle of penicillin (Calcium Salt) dated 28/12/1943. The bottle contains enough penicillin for the treatment of ten life threatiening cases. Date: 1944

Albania. Shkodra. Five National Heroes Monument by Shaban Haderi

OTTO HAHN
German chemist and Nobel prize winner, OTTO HAHN (1879 -1968) Date: circa 1944

WW2 poster, Save fuel for battle! Save coal, gas, electricity, paraffin, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Showing soldiers and ships in a battle scene. Date: circa 1944

WW2 poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug
WW2 Air Ministry poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug seen in cross-section. Date: 1944

Malmedy Massacre, 1944
The bodies of two American soldiers (with a medics hat between them) lie semi-buried in the snow, two of the eighty-four victims of the Malmedy Massacre

German infantry during Ardennes counter-offensive 1944
German infantrymen pass an abandoned American reconnaissance vehicle during their Ardennes counter-offensive in 1944 that became known as the Battle of the Bulge Date: 1944

Vought F4U-4 Corsair -ready to launch of aboard USS Randolph, June 1944

Nakajima G8N1 Renzan Rita -Too late to enter combat, this Japanese Navy heavy bomber first flew in October 1944

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

Blitz in London -- Kennington Park Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- junction of Kennington Park Road and Harleyford Road, damaged by a high explosive bomb on 22 March 1944. Date: 1944

Second World War Trench Art lighter - a 303 rifle bullet
Second World War Trench Art lighter in the form of a.303 rifle bullet, dated 1944. Trench Art

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two. By manipulating the various control knobs

Bomb damage at Old Trafford - Manchester United
The bomb damaged main stands at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United Football Club following bombing raids on the city during World War Two. Date: 1944

Details of the V2 rocket bomb by G. H. Davis
Details of the German V2 rocket bomb, comparing its size with a V1, a house and a London bus. A comparison of its fuel economy with a Lancaster bomber

Captured German soldier during Battle of the Bulge
A captured German soldier during the Ardennes counter-offensive is shown holding a pair of American army trousers. He may have been a member of the S.S

V2 rocket attack on Manor Park, East London, WW2
A woman is rescued after a V2 rocket attack in Manor Park. Although many such amazing rescues took place, hundreds of Londoners died in these attacks launched in the latter stages of WW2

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