1944 Collection (page 3)

Men of the British First Airborne Division in a glider; Seco
Photograph showing a unit of the British First Airborne Division in a glider on the way to Arnhem, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation Market Garden was put into action; a bold plan

British First Airborne Troops using a mortar, Arnhem; Second
Photograph showing men of the British First Airborne Division using a 3-inch mortar in one of the woods surrounding Arnhem, in Holland, September 1944

Huntley & Palmers
Christmas ad from 1944 for Huntley and Palmers biscuits

Sir Richard Acland and his wife Ann. The MP Sir Richard Acland handed over to the National Trust the 16, 000 acres of beautiful West Country property which comprise his Killerton Estate

Bren Gunner, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Burma, 1944 (c)
Photograph: A well-concealed Bren Gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles amongst the thick foliage of the Burmese jungle, 1944 (c)

Firefighters in action, Rosebery Avenue, WW2
Firefighters in action in burning debris in Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London, following a flying bomb attack. Date: 1944

Launching of V2 rocket bombs by G. H. Davis
The launching of V2 rocket bombs during the Second World War: an official photograph and its explanation. On the left: a scene at Peenemunde, birthplace of the V2

WW2 - Fit and ready to join the RAF - strong like Father
" We Must Hand it to the RAF" WW2 - Fit and ready to join the RAF - strong like Father! A girl is happy to hand over her boy to the service of the country

Poster for Locarno on the Swiss Riviera. The town is located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Alps 1944

David Wright woman with lipstick
Elegant woman in a low-cut blue evening dress, putting on bright red lipstick at her dressing table. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 1944
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler, playing a Beethoven concerto during a lunch hour in a German armaments factory in Germany in 1944

Amphibious Truck
Members of the 462nd Amphibious Truck Company training for D Day in a two and a half ton deck on Carylon Beach in Cornwall in 1944

Infantrymen of the U. S. Mars Task Force - 1944
Infantrymen of the U.S. Mars Task Force unit attack Japanese troops in the Burma Road Sector, 80 miles north of Lashio

Garden Path winning the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket
Garden Path, a brown filly belonging to Lord Derby and ridden by Harry Wragg, pictured winning the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket against Major David Wills Blue Peter colt

Princess Beatrice in 1860
Princess Beatrice, later Priness Henry of Battenberg (1857-1944), fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert photographed in 1860

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

The Allies meet at the closing of the Falaise Pocket, Fran
Photograph showing the meeting between American troops (on right with jeep) and Canadian troops (on left with half-track) to mark the closing of the Falaise Pocket on the road between Falaise

Aerial View of the bridge at Nijmegen, Holland; Second World
Aerial photograph showing the road bridge across the Waal at Nijmegen, Holland, 1944. This photograph was taken prior to Operation Market Garden ; the audacious plan to lay an Allied carpet of

British Soldiers resting near Monte Camino; Second World War
Photograph showing a group of British infantry taking a break, near Monte Camino, Italy, 1943. This unit had just been involved in six days of continuous fighting

Two Soviet Heavy Tanks Josef Stalin (IS) II
This model of tank was introduced in spring 1944. The conflict depictedis likely to have been taken in Belarus or Poland in late autumn 1944

Yes or No? by David Wright showing a glamorous blonde woman with a headscarf looking questioningly at the artist. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

Beatrice / White Dress
PRINCESS BEATRICE Daughter of Victoria, married Prince Heinrich of Battenberg in 1885

Ant. Saint-Exupery
SAINT-EXUPERY SAINT-EXUPERY French aviator and writer. Author of novels and essays, most with an aviation theme

Repair your own fur coat, 1944. Cleaning and repairing your fur coat and your raincoat at home in wartime. Date: 1944

Advert, Rolls-Royce, Vickers Vimy biplane
Advert for Rolls-Royce, 25th anniversary of a Vickers Vimy biplane with Rolls-Royce engines, first direct Atlantic crossing by air, June 1919. 1944

Douglas DC-3S N1R (msn 4129) of the BROOKLYN DODGERS (Brooklyn National League Baseball Club), marked with Dodgers World Champions just behind the entry door

Submarines against the Japanese, 1944
A double page spread in The Sphere, 1944, entitled " Submarines against the Japs: British underwater craft operating in the Far East." On the left hand page

Pte J Connington of Selby, Yorks, in action with Sten gun
Photograph: Pte J Connington of Selby, Yorks, in action with Sten gun. Taken by Sgt D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, Arnhem, 20 Sep 1944

D-Day, HMS Ramillies, WW2
D-Day, HMS Ramillies, June 1944. 1944

Cavalieri / Art Deco Paris
LINA CAVALIERI Italian singer, on an art deco style postcard Date: 1874 - 1944

North American P-51B of 99th Fighter Tuskegee Squadron, 15th Air Force, USaF in Italy, cSept 1944

Avro 685 York-shown is the first civilianised York delivered to British Overseas Airways Corporation in February 1944

Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, WW2
Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, following a flying bomb explosion, 19 June 1944. Date: 1944

Aerial photography by G. H. Davis
Aerial photography by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of the RAF: details of cameras and methods in use during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Hawker Hurricane IIC PZ865
Hawker Hurricane IIC, PZ865, The Last of the Many!, the final production Hurricane, is rolled out of the Hawker factory at Langley in 1944. Date: 1944

Stewart, James, Pilot as Col in USaF -began combat flying with 453rd Bomb Group, 31 March 1944

Consolidated B-24H & J formation of 2nd Bomb Division, US 8th Air Force, 24 Nov 1944

Dutch poster advertising a National Collection on behalf of the Fatherland (ie the German Reich), during the Second World War. May 1944

Churchill and family visits anti-flying bomb defences, 1944
Mr. Winston Churchill and his youngest daughter Mary Churchill see anti-flying bomb defences. Mrs. Churchill is also present on this six hour tour of gun sites in Southern England

American Anti-Aircraft Guns near London; Second World War, 1
Illustration showing an American anti-aircraft unit firing at enemy bombers, during a German raid on London in 1944. The gun shown is a 90-mm weapon

Super Train of Future
A gyro-balanced monorail, the super train of tomorrow will be a three-decker carrying great numbers of passengers at high speeds

Cavalieri / Thais Postcard
Lina Cavalieri in the title role of the Egyptian courtesan who converts to religion and dies as a desert hermit

Unloading Supplies in Normandy; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the unloading of supplies onto one of the Normandy beaches, shortly after the Allied invasion on D-Day, 6th June 1944

Allied Troops landing in Normandy; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing Allied troops and armour moving up one of the Normandy beaches, shortly after D-Day, 6th June 1944. At the top of the image a barrage balloon can be seen

German Prisoners Paraded
HOME FRONT SCENES German prisoners paraded in Moscow

Greeting Soviet Tank
Ukrainian farmer greets a Soviet Tank crew with traditional gifts - bread and salt

Soviet Cavalryman
A Soviet cavalryman shares a drink with his horse, at the Dneiper river

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