2nd New Zealand Division infantry from XXX Corps of the British 8th Army take the surrender of a German tank crew from Panzer-Regiment 5, 21st...
American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt meets British prime minister Winston Churchill for a church service on board the HMS Prince of Wales in...
Cheered by the ship's company from HMS Kelvin, Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten waves to the crews of the remaining ships of the Royal Navy 5th...
Soviet people listen to the radio statement of the Soviet government on the treacherous attack of Nazi Germany. Moscow, June 22, 1941.
The interior of the Albert Hall in London, England, the new home of the Promenade Concerts or 'The Proms', June 1941. The Queen's Hall, the original...
Russian village burned down by Soviet commissars under pressure from the German advance, Russia, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year...
German Dornier Do 17 bombers flying over the city of Athens, Greece, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVIII, No 20, May 18, 1941.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , in overcoat and hat and smoking a cigar, walking alone on the deck of HMS "Prince of Wales" during the...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet aboard a battleship cruising the Atlantic Ocean for the...
Group of land girls bringing in sheaves of wheat from a field reclaimed for the war effort from 400-acres of unused land on the Sussex Downs, 13th...
Catering instructor with the aid of a blackboard, demonstrates how to roll different types of pastry to a classroom of female NAFFI cook recruits on...
British 6th Infantry Division, 2pdr Portee anti tank gun mounted on a Morris CS8 15 Cwt vehicle on the road to Damascus in pursuit of the Vichy...
British soldier guards prisoners of war from the Vichy French Armee du Levant during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign circa June 1941 in Syria. British...
Charles Abbott tends to his vegetable plot of onions, parsnips and beans on top of the Anderson air raid shelter built in the garden for the Dig for...
1940s DECEMBER 7 1941 DAY OF INFAMY BATTLESHIP USS ARIZONA IN PEARL HARBOR HI AFTER SURPRISE ATTACK BY JAPANESE AIR FORCES
Wreckage of USS Arizona after Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Attack, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Office of Emergency Management, December 7, 1941.
American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt meets British prime minister Winston Churchill for a church service on board the HMS Prince of Wales in...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet aboard the Augusta during the Atlantic Conference of August...
The damaged Hangar No 11 after the 7th December 1941 attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Operation Compass was the first major Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during World War II. British and Commonwealth forces...
Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga conducts air operations in 1937. On the deck are Mitsubishi B2M Type 89, Nakajima A2N Type 90, and Aichi...
Soviet junior political officer armed with a Tokarev TT-33 Service Pistol urges Soviet troops forward against German positions during World War II....
North African Campaign-British troops to enter Tobruk January 21, 1941. In early December, British Empire forces - an armoured division and two...
Italian advance lines in Tobruk, Battle of Marmarica , Libya, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVIII, No 47, November 23, 1941.
Libyan patrol advancing under enemy artillery fire between Giarabub and Tobruk, Libya, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVIII, No...
Armourers load ammunition into the wing magazines for the 20 mm Hispano Mk II cannon of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb of No.1 Squadron Royal Air Force...
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret sitting on the lawn at Windsor Castle, UK, with a corgi, 8th July 1941.
Model reading in bed under a candlewick bedspread, July 1941. From an article in Picture Post magazine advising women on ways of altering old or...
Damage at the House of Commons, London caused by a bombing raid. View from members corridor showing the cloisters.
Woman eating Meal during American Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles, California, USA, John Collier, Jr., U.S. Office of War...
Child Passenger and Female Flight Attendant during American Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles, California, USA, John Collier, Jr., U.S....
British and Commonwealth soldiers from XIII Corps of the British Army captured as prisoners of war during the Western Desert campaign by Axis German...
Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber aircrews pose in front of one of their aircraft on the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Kaga, 6 December 1941.
Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku conducts air operations in the Indian Ocean, April 1942.
American fighter pilot volunteer, Flying Officer Stanley Michel Kolendorski of No 71 , Royal Air Force Fighter Command climbs in to the cockpit of...
Royal Artillery gunners Stan Lawrence and Ronnie Smith from a British Army anti-aircraft gun crew, paint a record of German Luftwaffe planes shot...
Choristers from Salisbury Cathedral School walk in line in front of the cathedral in Salisbury, England during World War II on 21st May 1941.
Royal Navy seaman gunner Robert Tilburn , one of only three survivors of the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Hood, posed in Blackpool, England...
35mm film photo shows the beach at Long Beach, California, where dozens of kids and adults play on the sand and the ocean, 1941.
Gaynor Family at Dinner on their Farm, Fairfield, Vermont, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1941.
35mm film photo shows Union Station in Los Angeles. Built in 1939, it is the largest railroad passenger terminal in the Western United States, 1941.
35mm film photo shows the exterior of Hollywood High School, located on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Built in 1903, many notable actors and...
Evacuee schoolboys are given instruction through a YMCA scheme to correctly handle milk churns and other farm labouring work on 18th December 1941 at...
Mildred Parker, a member of the Women's Land Army ploughing furrows in a field with a Caterpillar D2 tracked crawler tractor on the Wittenham Clumps...
October 1941. One of the first public executions in the German occupied territories of USSR. In Minsk, on the arch of a yeast factory, volunteers of...
Anti-war demonstrators from the American Peace Mobilization carrying placards reading 'Keep Our Fleet at Home! No AEF! Write your Congressman now,...
1940s december 27 1941 british wounded soldiers being evacuated to landing craft vaagso malloy islands Norway.
Three members of the WRNS , the women's branch of the Royal Navy, check out their new accommodation after arriving for duty on the 'HMS Daedalus'...