Ww Ii Collection (#25)

D-Day - Landing of the 13th / 18th Hussars
Troops sheltering on mass on a Normandy beach following the landing of the 13th/18th Hussars. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6

D-Day - Overcoming wire defences
Landed allied troops find little more than a single line of wire defences at this section on this section of the Normandy coast

D-Day - Captured German Prisoners
German prisoners captured by the 13th/18th Hussars on D-Day. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an

D-Day - Emabarkation for US assault troops
Embarkation for US assault troops, about to set sail for the invasion of France. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied

D Day rehearsals
Troops coming ashore during an exercise to prepare for the D Day Landings in 1944

Waiting for D Day
British women serve coffee and talk to American Army Ordinancemen waiting to cross the channel to France for the D Day landings in 1944

British troops reading French guide before embarking for the D Day Landings during the Second World War in 1944

Gas attack rehearsal 1938
Gas attack rehearsal in Nottingham in 1938. A man with bell and rattle gives a warning of a gas attack in a simulated practice which was filmed to give instruction to other people in the UK

Refugees with gas mask boxes
Child refugees with gas mask boxes during World War II

London blackout, World War II
London shop windows blacked out with paper and posters advertising their wares and with gas mask propaganda on the home front in London during World War II

Stores Services Club
Women from the armed services in the Stores Services Club hang up their hats and gas masks during World War II

River Emergency Service, World War II. A patrol boat of the River Emergency Service returning from duty flies the gas signal GQH and a member of the crew signals for assistance be semaphore

Firefighters in gas masks
ARP Firefighters in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise

Gas Mask fitting
Mothers leave an Ilford school with their children after a gas mask fitting. All the schools in Ilford, Essex (London) were opened to enable residents to be fitted with gas masks under the Air Raid

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

Belgian refugees in London are fitted with gas masks at Fulham Borough Council during World War II

WWII safety precautions
A man with a white hat band on a steel lined crowned bowler hat and carrying a gas mask box during world war II

Gas Masks in London
Man sitting and sleeping in a London park carrying his gas mask box with him in September 1939

Gas Mask drill at school, 1939
Gas Mask drill at school. Teacher and pupils wearing gas masks, 1939

Gas Masks for children
Gas Masks and protection for children and nursing mothers during World War II in 1940-1941

Gas Masks, World War II
Group of men queuing to register, probably for the ARP, wearing gas masks during World War II

Children in gas masks
Children wearing gas masks at a kindergarten with their nurse, or teacher, during World War II

Gas Mask fitting, World War II
Woman giving a man a gas mask fitting during World War II

Family wearing gas masks
A family wearing gas masks on a quiet night in at home during World War II

ARPs World War II
ARPs in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise in London

Gas Masks
Students wearing gas masks while studying during World War II

Gas Masks for babies
A gas mask, or hood for babies being demonstrated at Holborn Town Hall, London. It took three years of development to perfect

Luftwaffe HQ 1939
The Reichsluft Fahrt Ministerium (Luftwaffe HQ) in Berlin, Germany in 1939 at the start of World War II

World War II 1941
Soldiers landing from a landing craft under cover of a smoke screen during World War II in 1941

a Searchlight Battery
SLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945

Home Front World War II
A party of London Anti-aircraft gunners watching a dogfight on the Home Front in England during World War II

Stock Exchange cadets, World War II
New camping kit evolved by the Stock Exchange cadets an worn by one of the boys on the Home Front in England during World War II

Home Guard World War II
Home Guard recruiting parade in Ruislip with OPS WaFs cheering as they march past on the Home Front in England during World War II

ARP Calling You
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) recruiting poster in World War Two to try to encourage people to get in touch with their local council and volunteer

King and Queen at a Communal Centre during the war
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth pictured visiting a communal centre established in South London during the Blitz to provide meals for people who had been bombed out of their homes by German air

King and Queen meeting widows of the Ajax and Exeter
King George VI together with Queen Elizabeth meeting widows and children of members of the crew of the Ajax and the Exeter

King George VI inspecting bomb damage in London
King George VI inspecting destroyed homes, part of the damage done by German air raids over London during the Blitz

King George VI in 1939
King George VI (1895 - 1952), picture in a Field Marshals service uniform in October 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901 - 2004) inspecting a mobile canteen presented to the British Red Cross and Order of St

Queen Elizabeth making a wartime radio broadcast
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002), pictured making a radio broadcast speech to the women of the Empire in November 1939

King George VI talking to wartime farm helpers
King George VI visiting schoolboys working as volunteers on farms in the Southern Counties during the war

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