1944 Collection (page 25)

Hoover advert
The Hand that held the Hoover helps the Bombed! Advert celebrating the good work of the Womens Voluntary Service, showing the mobile canteens used to provide sustainance to the wartime workers

Royal Visit to the USaF
Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth visiting a USaF station in 1944 and with General Doolittle shortly after Princess Elizabeth had christened

Gurkha trooper firing in Burma, 1944 Date: 1944

Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944
British, West Africans and Gurkhas, the backbone of Wingates Burma Jungle forces, wait at the ramps to file into transports or gliders for the forward movement to Broadway

Allies rescue stricken C-47 - Burma
American forces of the Air Service Command, Chindits and Burmese farmers of the local neighbourhood, who between them managed to put a C-47 back in the air

Allied scouts cross a Burmese Jungle stream. Poised for action, a scouting detachment of armed Burmese patriot fighters, accompanied by two American soldiers

A Japanese patrol in a Mandalay Railway Yard, Burma

British 36th Division in Burma - 1944
Two members of the British 36th Division (consisting of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the East Lancashire Regiment)

19th Indian Dagger Division - Burma
Tanks and infantry of the 19th Indian Dagger Division move up to the attack - Burma

General de Castelnau / Stamp
NOEL MARIE JOSEPH EDOUARD, VICOMTE DE CURIERES DE CASTELNAU (1851 - 1944) Noted French general in World War I

British service personnel on D-Day
A group painting of the British armed forces involved in Operation Overlord - the D-Day invasion of France - on June 6th 1944

95th Para
British paratrouper from 95th Para - involved in the first stage of Operation Overlord, the D-day invasion of France on June 6th 1944

Dug in - D-Day - Machine Gun Team
A British machine gun team dug in on a Normandy beach during the assault phase of Operation Overlord - the allied D-Day landings in France on 6th June 1944

The Sleeping Quarters of German Machinists
The photograph shows german machinists sleeping in a deep tunnel in Cherbourgs arsenal

A United States Assult Unit
The photograph shows a United States Assult Unit moving along a cliff in Normandy

The First Seaborne Troops to Land in France, 1944

General Dwight Eisenhower
Photograph of General Dwight Eisenhower washing his hands during his visit to the Normandy Beach Head

Princess Beatrice down a coal mine
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, pictured picking coal in the Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, North Wales in 1889

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

Princess Beatrice and her Spanish grandchildren
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, with her Spanish grandchildren (children of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena), Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias ( Alfonsito, left)

Princess Beatrice c. 1880
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

A car in the Iranian desert. The driver and two passengers have got out and are examining something in the sand

Two people and their car in Iran
Two people and their car, somewhere in Iran, possibly having to change a tyre. In the background is a long building with many domes

General view, Iranian desert with buildings
General view of the Iranian desert, with a few buildings, and mountains in the background

The mausoleum of Khaje Rabi, Iran
The mausoleum of Khaje Rabi, about 6km outside Mashhad in Iran - now extensively restored. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

People in the Iranian desert
A group of people, both Western and Middle Eastern, somewhere in the Iranian desert

An incident with a car, Iran
A large number of people trying to move a car out of a ditch, somewhere in Iran

People and their cars, Iran
People and their cars, somewhere in Iran

Private of the 2nd Battalion of The East Yorkshire Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) - Normandy 1944. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Trapping Whelks on the Shores of the Caspian Sea by W. Heath
The first illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) to appear in The Sketch on March 21st 1906. Part of a humorous series called, The Gentle Art of Catching Things

German V-2 Base at Watten; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the huge concrete bunker of the German V-2 base at Watten, near St. Omer, France, 1944. This bunker was 300 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall

V-1 Flying Bomb exhibited in London; Second World War, 194
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb, on display in an exhibition in the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes Ltd. London, 1944

RAF fighter chasing a V-1 Flying Bomb; Second World War, 1
Photograph showing a Royal Air Force fighter airplane (right) chasing a German V-1 Flying Bomb rocket over Southern England, 1944

RAF Control Centre; Second World War, 1944
Painting showing a Royal Air Force Control Centre, somewhere in South East England, 1944. At that time, this centre was involved in plotting the courses of V-1 Flying Bombs

German Explosive Motorboat; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German explosive motorboat being craned into the water, 1944. Controlled by one man, these craft were steered towards the target

V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb launch site somewhere on the coast of France, June 1944. In the foreground of this image can be seen a small concrete control building

V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site, France; Second World War, 194
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb launch site near the coast of Normandy, France, June 1944. Two American soldiers can be seen inspecting the sloping launching-ramp

Anti-Aircraft Rockets, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the firing of anti-aircraft rockets at night, by British Home Guard units, during 1944

Royal Navy Seafire taking off; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a rocket-assisted take-off by a Royal Navy Seafire fighter during the Second World War. Rockets were used to help aircraft take off when they were either heavily laden or operating

King George VI, Sir A. Lascelles and Major-General Laycock
Photograph showing King George VI (centre) with Sir A. Lascelles (left) and Major-General Laycock on the bridge of HMS Arethusa, crossing the English Channel, 16th June 1944

American Troops during the Battle of the Bulge; Second Wor
Photograph showing American soldiers of the Second Armoured Division taking a break in their advance across the snow-covered fields of the low countries

The Gun Control Room, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing the interior of the Gun Control Room, the headquarters of Londons anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War, 1944

4000-lb Bomb being loaded into a Lancaster, Britain; Second
Photograph showing a 4000-lb Cookie bomb being loaded into an Avro Lancaster of the Royal Air Force, at an airfield somewhere in Britain, 1944

Canadian Troops of the Eighth Army, Italy; Second World War
Photograph showing a unit of Canadian infantry of the Allied Eighth Army changing position, in Italy, during the Second World War, 1944

Lt. -General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984)
Photographic portrait of Lieutenant-General Mark Clark, then Commander of the Fifth Army in Italy, Second World War, 1944

RAF Typhoons attack German tanks, France; Second World War
Illustration showing Royal Air Force Typhoons, fighter-bombers equipped with rockets, attacking a column of German armour, near Mortain, 1944

British Tanks crossing a Bailey Bridge, Holland; Second Worl
Photograph showing British tanks and self-propelled guns crossing a Bailey bridge, Holland, 1944. This bridge had been built by British engineers over a canal during Operation Market Garden

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
Photographic portrait of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the English writer, pictured in the early 1940 s. Sir Arthur was a Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University

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