1944 Collection (page 28)

LAST RUN ON VENUS (James McKimmey) Earthpeople on Venus are caught up in the fighting

German Anti-Tank Gun
German anti-tank gun in action against the Russians

Romain Rolland / Century
ROMAIN ROLLAND French man of letters

Jean Giraudoux / Postcard
JEAN GIRAUDOUX French writer of plays, novels, essays and scripts

Chaminade / Cig Card
CECILE LOUISE STEPHANIE CHAMINADE French musician and composer

Alexis Carrel / Maitres
ALEXIS CARREL French surgeon and biologist, 1912 Nobel prizewinner

Martin Harvey / Carton
MARTIN HARVEY (Sir John Martin-Harvey) English actor-manager as Sydney Carton in The Only Way, based on Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities

Mulberry Harbour
The prefabricated MULBERRY HARBOUR enables Allied troops to pour into France as in a regular port

Operation Dragoon / 1944
Operation Dragoon, the successful allied invasion of Southern France. Within 30 days it had linked up with the Normandy invasion forces

Cavalieri / Bonnet Paris
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer, wearing a bonnet

Cavalieri / Russian
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer

Cavalieri / Rotary Paris
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer

Cavalieri / Reutlinger
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer

Aino Ackte / Herwine
AINO ACKTE Finnish opera singer, seen here in 1900 in the role of Herwine in La Cloche du Rhin

Beatrice / Postcard 1907
PRINCESS BEATRICE Daughter of Victoria, married Prince Heinrich of Battenberg in 1885

Beatrice / Cig Card 1910
PRINCESS BEATRICE Daughter of Victoria, married Prince Heinrich of Battenberg in 1885

Beatrice / Faustin / Figaro
PRINCESS BEATRICE Daughter of Victoria, married Prince Heinrich of Battenberg in 1885

Tommy and Yank 1944
Tommy and Yank, British and American brothers in arms, celebrate the Allied victory in Germany

Fighting in Latvia
2nd Baltic Front Soviet Gunners firing on German positions at the town of Ogre (Latvia)

British on Beach
British troops of the 13th/18th Hussars suffer a temporary hold-up on the beaches of Normandy, France

Allied Troops Land
Allied troops alighting from their landing craft, some with bicycles, onto the beaches of Normandy, France. A tank of the 50th Division is in the background

British Move Inland
Camouflaged British troops in Normandy, France, make their way inland

British with Prisoners
British troops of the 13th/18th Hussars, bringing in German prisoners

British Advancing
British troops, wary of German snipers, move cautiously behind a ruined wall in St. Mauvieu, France

British Troops Land
British troops of the 56th Infantry Brigade landing on the beaches of Normandy, France

Approaching French Coast
Allied forces at sea approaching the coast of Normandy, France, shortly before dawn

Americans with Prisoners
American troops and their German prisoners on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

Lucien Pissarro
LUCIEN PISSARRO artist and printer, son of Camille Pissarro

Henry Wood / Valkyrie 1908
SIR HENRY JOSEPH WOOD English musician conducting Wagners Ride of the Valkyries in 1908

3rd Earl Lonsdale
HUGH CECIL LOWTHER of LONSDALE, sportsman, huntsman, yachtsman, and so on

Poster; into Berlin
we Shall March into Berlin !

Ethel Smyth
ETHEL SMYTH musician, writer and feminist

Foo Fighters, Europe
This photo is said to show a foo-fighter observed by a German pilot in May 1945, near Karnten, Germany : there are grounds for suspecting a fake, however

Sailors Singing Carols
British sailors rehearsing Christmas carols on board their ship, H.M.S. Arethusa, which took part in the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944

Henry Wood Photograph
SIR HENRY JOSEPH WOOD English conductor and composer, associated with Promenade Concerts

Pow Leaflet
Leaflet given to captured troops by the Germans, telling them what is in store for them but assuring them that You will return home safe and sound after the war

Victoria with Beatrice
QUEEN VICTORIA with her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1857-1944)

Sir Arthur Eddington
SIR ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON British Astronomer

Cavalieri / Theatre 1907
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer, as Thais (Massenet)

Princess Beatrice Weds
Marriage of Princess Beatrice (1857-1944) youngest child of Queen Victoria, to Prince Henry of Battenburg at Whippingham, Isle of Wight

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