Liberation Collection

Vassar College Girl 1922
American college girl or the Vassar girl of 1922

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879-1919). Mexican revolutionary. Photographic reproduction

Ladies Football, 1894
The lady footballers: an anticipation. The Sketch anticipates the brave new world of women footballers: a good looking goalkeeper recieves much attention

Saved by a female Bather
A gentleman bather who has found himself in trouble, is rescued by two extremely glamorous lady bathers. One has him firmly In Tow

Stalingrad Tractor Plant
Battle in Tractor Plant, later the last stand for the Germans before the liberation of Stalingrad

The Cafe Gondree - the first house to be liberated on D Day, June 1944. Normandy, France. The cafe sits beside the Pegasus Bridge on the Caen Canal Date: 1992

WW2 Paris Liberation - Eisenhower - Tomb of Unknown Soldier
WW2 - Paris Liberation - General Dwight D Eisenhower at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arch de Triomphe, Paris, France. Date: 1945

Winston Churchill watching 47th Division at Lille, France
Winston Churchill as a War Office minister, sitting with others on a grandstand at Lille, France, watching the march past of the 47th (2nd London)

Ruined Stalingrad
The ruins of the city, after its liberation. A sculpture of dancing children survives, though battered, like Stalingrad itself

Sebastopol Liberated
LIBERATION SCENES The liberation of Sebastopol

World War II Allied trrops march rue de Regence in Brussels
World War II vintage photograph - Allied trrops march along the rue de Regence in Brussels to mark one year since liberation

WW2 Victory, Liberation of Czechoslovakia, postal cover envelope Date: 1945

Wan-kuo-chiao (Wanguo) or International Bridge, Tianjin (Tientsin), China. First known as the French Bridge, and later renamed Chiang Kai-shek Bridge

Turkish women - 1920s - Liberation in Dress
A set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress

WW1 poster, L'Emprunt de la Liberation (The Liberation Loan) - the German Kaiser bows under the combined strength of the Allied flags. Date: 1918

North American T-28D-5 Trojan VH-MEO (MSN-159-88, ex 49-1724), in Australia in Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force markings. Date: circa 2000

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 N996 (msn 9122071) (ex People's Liberation Army Air Force 2071 but now wearing Sovjet Air Force serial 996') Date: circa 2000

Vintage photograph WW II - Irrawaddy River railhead 1945
Vintage photograph World War II - Irrawaddy River railhead town of Prome, now Pyay after liberation 1945

Veldhoven Liberation Memorial and HCR Memorial
The Operation Market Garden plan required that the Guards Armoured Division, which was leading the ground advance north, should advance at maximum speed in order to cross the river bridges as soon as

508th PIR, Devils in Baggy Pants, Memorial, Beek
The Memorial was designed by H. J. Guse and was erected on 17 September 1981. It commemorates the liberation of Beek on 17 September 1944 by the 508th who were known as the Red Devils

Zetten Liberation Monument, Holland
This impressive Monument, designed by G. Berns, was inaugurated on 24th September 1984. It takes the form of a symbolic dugout representing the many civilians

Aalst Liberation Memorial, Holland
This small dramatic Memorial stands on a plinth in a little park in the middle of Aalst. It depicts three human figures rising from the straightjacket of German occupation

The Liberation Gate Memorial, Dutch-Belgian border
This Memorial is just inside the Dutch border about 3 kms from Joes Bridge. In the battles before the start of the Market Garden Operation from Joes Bridge

Liberation of the 1st Town Hall, Benouville, Normandy
This plaque, on the wall of the Mairie just up the road from what became known as Pegasus Bridge, claims that Liberation came at 2345 hours on 5 June

Com Deb Sig Liberation Memorial, Oistreham
Ten distinctive Comite du Debarquement Memorials were put up at stragegic points to commemorate the landings and the Liberation. This one, which has beside it a No

Canadian Maple Leaf sign on Juno Route Route 2
The Souvenir Juno Committee consists of some 60 Communes that have pledged to Remember the Canadians who fell during the Liberation.Tours using three separate Routes are featured with a Maple Leaf

Local Memorial in Cairon to Canadian Liberators
The Souvenir Juno Committee consists of some 60 Communes that have pledged to Remember the Canadians who fell during the Liberation

Royal Winnipeg & 1st Canadian Scottish Memorial
This double memorial has a plaque to the Rifles on the left and to the Scottish on the right. Between them is a poem by Paul Eluard

2nd Bn Royal Ulster Rifles Memorial Cambes en Plaine
The Battalion captured the village on 9 June. The German posltion was one of the strongest on this part of the front. The capture sealed the connection between Canadian & British Forces

British & Canadian Liberators Monument Bretteville
This striking Memorial lists all the Participants in the Liberation of Communes between the rivers Thue & Mue, 3rd Can Div, RCA, 2nd Armoured Bde, 43rd Wessex Div, 15th Scottish Div

50th Northumrian Division Asnelles Normandy
The memorial is at a crossroads named Alexander Stanier after the Commander of the leading brigade (the 231st) of the 50th that landed on Gold Beach. Nearby are memorials to the leading battalions

Museum of Underwater Wrecks Port en Bessin
In 1970 Jaques Lemonchois was asked to clear war wrecks not cleared by the government. The results here include tanks, parts of aeroplanes and torpedos, plus films, photos and documents

US 82nd Airborne & 90th Inf Div Memorial Gourbesville
The Memorial commemorates the 300 men who died during the liberation of the village. Early on 6 June the 507th Parachute Infantry dropped nearby but the men were very scattered

WW2 - Prince Berhard visits Mstrict after liberation
WW2 - Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911-2004) visits Mstrict, driving his own jeep - the first big Dutch town to be liberated - he is mobbed by a crowd of cheering Dutchmen and Boy Scouts

The parliamentary female
Father of the family: " Come, dear; we so seldom go out together now- can t you take us all to the play tonight!" Mistress of the House, and MP: " How you talk, Charles

Enlist with Free French Infantry of the Air (Paratroopers) Date: circa 1943

Enlist with the Free French Navy
Reproduction on a postcard of a poster encouraging men to enlist with the Free French Navy - To Liberate France. Date: 1943

Liberation of Brussels during World War II Date: 1945

Two Belgian boys dressed as British soldiers with adults during World War II. Picture taken when the Belgian people heard the news of the end of the war in Europe

British armour enter Belgium, one of the first tanks passing through the village of Antoing on the Western Front during World War II Date: September 1944

Liberation from War Date: 1944

Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist at work 1918
Female WaC RAF motor-cyclist driving a staff officer through the Strand, London, with the famous Russian restaurant, Romanos, in the background

DE GAULLE ACROSS RHINE
The French cross the Rhine on 31 March, and a few days later De Gaulle in person is there to celebrate the liberation of Alsace and Lorraine from German occupation Date: April 1945

EQUALITY / COLLEGE GIRL
American college woman or the Vassar girl of 1922 Date: 1922

Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields 1862
Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields house of Correction. Date: 1862

The Inauguration (on 30th August, 1907) of The equestrian Monument to the Tsar Liberator in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria

Liberation of Belgium - Honour to our Liberators
Liberation of Belgium. Honour to our Liberators. Belgian

The Maquis (French Resistance) share in the liberation of France. Date: 1944

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