Zone Gallery

Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain

(ex Armee de l'Air) - Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain 92449 (msn 12251, call-sign FA') at Le Bourget Airport on display with the Musee de l'air et de l'espace in July 1982. 10 January 1944: 42-92449 delivered to the United States Army Air Force. 25Mar44: Eighth Air Force, 442nd Troop Carrier Group, Fulbeck (Station 488). 6 June 44: Transported paratroopers of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Sainte-Mere-eglise, Normandy, France on Mission Boston'. 16 July 1947: To FLC for disposal. To French civil registry as F-BEFB for Aigle-Azur Extreme-Orient. May 1960: To French AF as 92449. 1982: Noted in Musee de l'Air, Paris. 2004: repainted in fake colours and serial number, as 42-100558 Buzz Buggy'. Date: 1982

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South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities. The South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) - was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lushun Port (Port Arthur) at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Women workers in the war zone by H. L. Oakley

Silhouettes of French women workers made by Lieutenant (later Captain) H. L. Oakley in the area behind the firing line on the Western Front, where every inch of ground is made use of by the inhabitants. All the scenes depicted were actually witnessed, and the subjects form a contrast to the pictures of girls clad in male attire portrayed by English artists. Women do ALL the work on the farms in the absence of men. Date: 1917

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans