Allies Gallery

WW2 Poster -- Formation Signs

Formation signs, dated 8 May 1945. Chromolithograph poster, showing various formation signs of infantry and armoured divisions, brigades, groups, including Airborne TPS, GHQ Liaison Regiment, Polish Armed Division, Czech Independent Armoured Brigade Group, 1 Independent Belgian Brigade Group. Date: 1945

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library

German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944

Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944. The vehicles shown include Panther and Tiger tanks (left foreground), two assault guns (one a Wasp'), Elephant and Hornet tank destroyers, several anti-aircraft vehicles, an armoured ambulance and two remote controlled explosive tanks (a B4 and a Beetle'). Note that these vehicles were only the ones that the Allies knew about and let information be published about, at the time

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

First Balkan War (1912 - 1913) - Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat during the First Balkan War as Greek troops overun a Turkish gun battery. The war lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies, and achieved rapid success. As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies, and an independent Albanian state set up. Despite their success, the Balkan states were unsatisfied with the peace settlement, and the tensions among them, with the unifying Ottoman threat gone, would soon result in the Second Balkan War

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection