Rudolf Portong of Long Island, USA, shows a Royal Airforce crew worker the mechanism for the ball turret machine gun. American aircrews are...
Crowd of men, women and children make their way through the devastated streets of Canterbury, left homeless by a recent World War II bombing raid.
Israeli police and soldiers from the Home Front Command, cordon off an area around the location where shrapnel fell after the interception of a...
Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter shortly before the start of the Second World War....
Air Mechanic Wrens of the Women's Royal Naval Service undertake maintenance on the cockpit and engine cowling of a Fleet Air Arm Fairey Albacore TB...
Driver of the Mechanised Transport Corps prepares for all weather conditions in the open cab of her vehicle before another long distance delivery...
Young woman knitting in an air raid shelter during the Blitz, London, October 1940. Original Publication: Picture Post - 308 - Shelter Life - pub...
Wartime bomb damage, Highgate Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, West Midlands, 29 July 1942. Artist James Nelson.
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Female civil servants demonstrate the correct stance for holding a fire hose during training at the Imperial War Museum Fire Fighting School.
Propaganda image of two female factory workers, wearing wearing goggles, caps, and aprons, posing in front of a poster for the American homefront war...
Year old Diana Holland rides a horse ahead of the volunteer Women's Observers from the village of Benhall as they go out on patrol to watch for...
The badly damaged Supermarine Spitfire V AD591 flown by Sgt Stefan Czachla of the No 306 Toru Polish Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Fighter...
Members of the L. D. V seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them as instructors in physical and bayonet training and...
Members of the Women's Land Army at work forking sugar beet harvest ready for transportation to a sugar processing plant on 14th October 1940 on...
Two civil defence firewatchers of the Air Raid Precaution scan the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe bombers from the rooftop of a...
Young children from the Jewish Fresh Air Home and School for Delicate Children busily tend their vegetable garden allotment plots as part of the Dig...
Nurses and staff from Guy's Hospital tend to their vegetable allotment garden as a part of the Dig for Victory war effort campaign on the reclaimed...
Social History, People, World War Two, pic: 1944, A Northampton woman saving water in a small tin bath as water restrictions bite during a drought.
Sergeant Jim Ford's wife telephones her friends to tell them that her husband has returned home. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1953 - How To...
Councillor AJ Blake, Chairman of the Wartime Allotments Committee holding a megaphone and a sack of onions before launching an allotment exhibition...
German women leaving the baker's shop with arms full of bread. White bread has arrived in Berlin for the first time since the end of the war and is...
German woman who has returned to Berlin from the evacuation area only to find her house has been destroyed, sits with her son and weeps in despair.
Martha Jean Kuhn shows a friend a letter from her boyfriend, an American airman stationed in Britain during World War II, Grafton, West Virginia,...
Woman Operates a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, working on a 'Vengeance' dive bomber, Tennessee October 1942.
Mother and daughter at a children's clothing exchange run by the Women's Voluntary Service , UK, October 1943. The exchange system is designed to...
New York haberdasher fixing up a sign explaining that his shop will be closed while staff pray for Allied victory in the invasion of Normandy on...
Sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshippers to 'Come in and pray for Allied victory' in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6th...
Local residents handing over scrap metal and waste paper during a wartime salvage collection in Hammersmith, London, circa 1943.
Woman looking at an electric sign on the New York Times building, the day after the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Detainees in their quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp is a temporary...
Wounded American serviceman during a ticker tape parade in New York following press reports of the unconditional surrender of Germany.
Yugoslav partisan fighters light cigarettes at an Allied rest camp in Italy, where they can recuperate and train in before returning to battle.
Company of National Volunteers from Boyle, County Roscommon drilling at Keash, County Sligo. The Irish National Volunteers objected to Irish...
In London a pipe smoker lights up, whilst across the Channel the Allied invasion of Normandy is now underway. Original Publication: Picture Post -...
Liberation of Normandy; French refugees living in a quarry near Fleury sur Orne. During the bombing in that area 20,000 refugees lived in these...
Women outside a Ministry of Labour van recruiting for war work. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1127 - Recruitment Van Draws Women To War Work -...
Survivors from the 'Lusitania', which was sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, walking the streets of Cobh, County Cork.
Crowds of people cheer and wave banners on the sidewalks during a parade celebrating the Allied Liberation of Paris and the return of General Charles...
Soldier leans out of a carriage window to kiss his wife goodbye at Paddington station in London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1133 - War-Time...