1945 Collection (page 15)

WW2 poster, Britains Aircraft Exhibition, London
WW2 Ministry of Information poster, Britains Aircraft Exhibition, on the John Lewis bombed site, Oxford Street, London W1. Admission free

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Supermarine Spitfire XVIe of Canadian No421 Squadron, RAF, Jan 1945

Boeing B-29 Enola Gay Paul Tibbetts and (on the ground) crew back on Tinian Marianas after Hiroshima raid, 5 Aug 1945

90th Infantry Division in Bastogne
Soldiers and vehicles of the American 90th Infantry Division in the Belgian town of Bastogne. The town had been under siege in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge

87th Infantry Division in St Hubert
During the Battle of the Bulge American soldiers of the 87th Division enter the town of St Hubert in Belgium shortly after the German occupiers had left. Date: January 1945

Elliots Library & Palace Cinema, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
The Village, Freshwater, near Totland, Isle of Wight, England. Showing Elliotts Library Date: 1920s

Avro Lancastrian G-AGLW BOAC LAP
BOAC used their Avro Lancastrians on the England to Australia route from May 1945. G-AGLW, named Northampton, was flown until 1950 Date: 1946

WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression
Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

Unconquerable The King of the Belgians
Unconquerable. The Kaiser : So you see - you ve lost everything. The King of the Belgians : Not my soul. The frame has a plaque which reads Presented by the Belgian Refugees in recognition of their

Floating landing strips for aircraft by G. H. Davis
Surface tension seadromes: floating landing strips for aircraft. A revolutionary British invention: a floating aerodrome tested by the Admiralty. 1945

Map of Okinawa island by G. H. Davis
Okinawa island, the Key to Japan, whose capital, Naha, had just fallen towards the end of the Second World War. It was a vital base for the air war on Japan. Date: 1945

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

German land mines by G. H. Davis
German land mines: an important weapon used on a large scale by retreating German armies during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Japanese surrender at Mukden
Soviet troops receive arms and munitions surrendered by units of the 63rd Division of the Kwantung Army of Japan at Mukden, Manchuria Date: August 1945

Primrose Time by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with a basket of flowers takes her pet dog for a walk. Date: 1945

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945
Rhyme and reason. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy. When the buy was open the bug began to sing Wasn t that a lot to pay for such a foolish

Temporary homes 1945
During World War Two many houses were bombed, there were a shortage of homes for people after the war so temporary homes where quickly built

Elderly lady fruit seller - Nassau, Bahamas Caption: " Anything Today Missus?" Date: 1945

Frances Scully, Irene Rich, Tom Breneman, Sonja Henie
Popular Radio Star Tom Breneman (1901-1948), pictured with (from left) Frances Scully (TV Presenter for ABC), Irene Rich (1891-1988 - American Actress)

A typical Luftwaffe graveyard in 1945. Date: 1945

Avro Lancaster II LL735 - Metropolitan-Vickers
Avro Lancaster II, LL735, was used by Metropolitan-Vickers to test the F2/1 gas turbine in 1943 and later with the F2/4 Beryl in 1945. Date: 1943

Three de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides CS-ADI CS-ADJ
Three de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides, CS-ADI, CS-ADJ and CS-ADK, followed by Percival Proctor, CS-ADN, on their way to Lisbon. 8 November 1945. Date: 1945

At the first flight of the de Havilland Dove at Hatfield on 25 September 1945. The central group are (from left): Geoffrey Pike (back to camera), John Brodie

John Maynard Keynes and wife
British economist, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), with his wife, former Russian Ballerina, Lydia Lopokova (1892-1981), on arrival in London from Washington in 1945. Date: 1945

Prince Moulay Hassan - Spitfire
Prince Moulay Hassan (later King Hassan II of Morocco) (1929-1999) sitting in the cockpit of a Spitfire - the aircraft responsible for such success against the German airforce during the Second World

Barbara Woodhouse & her coat-wearing cows
Mrs Barbara Woodhouse, perhaps better known as a famous dog trainer, pictured with her 16 dairy cows who she dresses with warm coats in cold weather

Peep Show
Photograph of a model, dancer or possibly chorus girl, peeping through a curtain wearing very little except for some tiny glittery briefs and matching nipple covers. c.1945

Princess Elizabeth as an ATS officer
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II), seen far right, in training as an ATS officer at an ATS training centre in Southern England during 1945

The Churchill family relax on holiday at Hendaye, 1945
Comfortably clad in beach attire, Mrs. Churchill and her daughter, Mary, spent a few peaceful moments reading the papers and enjoying the sunshine. Mr

Ken Livingstone with Morrissey, Mari Wilson and others
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician. Seen here with Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey, b 1959), English singer and songwriter

Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, 1945
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) together with their daughters, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II)

DUKW powered ferry on the Great Chindwin River, Burma - circa 1945. The DUKW (popularly pronounced " duck" ) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was designed by General Motors

Firing mortars over pagodas at Meiktila, Burma
Firing mortar shells over the historic pagodas at Meiktila, Burma - 28th February 1945

Charlotte and Feodora of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919), daughter of Vicky (Princess Royal), Crown Princess of Prussia, with her daughter Feodora (1879-1945) in 1880

British Radar Installation, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Fighter Direction Aerial system radar installation in Britain, during the Second World War, c.1945. On the right of the image a technician can be seen climbing the stairs into

Field-Marshal Montgomery on horseback, 1945
Photograph showing Field-Marshal Montgomery riding a white Arab stallion, Germany, 1945. This horse was procured by the Germany army in 1941

American Soldiers on the liner Queen Elizabeth, 1945
Aerial photograph showing American soldiers on the aft deck of the passenger liner Queen Elizabeth returning home to the USA, at the end of the Second World War, 1945

Aerial View of Tokyo, Japan, Second World War, 1945
Aerial photograph showing some of the areas (dark patches) of Tokyo destroyed by American bombing in 1945. By the time this photograph was taken General Curtis Le May was able to boast that 51 square

Albert Speer, Admiral Doenitz and General Jodl; Second World
Photograph showing Dr. Albert Speer (1905-1981), Grand-Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980) and Colonel-General Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), at the end of the Second World War in Europe, May 1945

Manila on Fire, Philippines; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing Manila, the Philippine capital, on fire (in background) and with the ruins of gutted buildings in the foreground

American Tank Destroyer at Stavelot; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the crew of an American tank destroyer standing beside their vehicle in Stavelot, twenty miles from Liege, during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-5

The Upper Town of Heligoland, Germany, 1947
Aerial photograph showing the upper town of Heligoland, the former German military base, pictured in 1947. The widespread destruction shown in the photograph was caused by Royal Air Force bombing

The Battle in Susteren; Second World War, 1945
Sketch showing a battle between British infantry (in buildings on right) and German tanks (on left) in the town of Susteren, Holland, 1945

The Empire State Building, New York, on Fire, 1945
Photograph showing the Empire State Building on fire, between the eighty-fifth and ninetieth floors, as a result of a Mitchell bomber accidently crashing into the building, 28th July 1945

Hotel Adlon, Berlin; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing the heavily damaged Hotel Adlon, in Unter den Linden, Berlin, with Soviet vehicles in front of the entrance, May 1945

David Lloyd-George (1863-1945), Chancellor of the Exchequer
Photograph of David Lloyd-George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Welsh Liberal statesman, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, showing him at work on the Budget of 1910

Lloyd George in 1923
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Ex-Prime Minister campaigning for Free Trade in 1923

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