A nurse with child evacuees from Plymouth in the garden of the Chaim W...
A nurse with child evacuees from Plymouth in the garden of the Chaim Weizmann Home at Tapley Park, Instow, North Devon, October 1942. A nurse with child evacuees from Plymouth in the garden of the Chaim Weizman... More
Anne Keys of the Women's Land Army reverses a tractor out of a shed du...
Anne Keys of the Women's Land Army reverses a tractor out of a shed during her training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture near Moulton in 1942. 24 year old Anne Keys reverses a tractor out of a shed d... More
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 TR513
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX of No 64 Squadron, Royal Air Force undergoing an engine overhaul just outside a blister hangar on the north side of ... More
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 TR514
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX of No 64 Squadron, Royal Air Force undergoing an engine overhaul in a blister hangar on the north side of Fairlop ai... More
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 TR517
At a Royal Air Force Fighter Station in Britain, November 1942 A few words from a fellow pilot before the engine-start of Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX, BR600 `SH-V', of No. 64 Squadron, Royal Air Force at Fairl... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Three Women's Land Army trainees enjoy a 'mite' of milk before their day of training begins at the Northampton Institute of... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 A group of Land Army students sit at one end of the cow shed to watch instructors demonstrate the art of milking as part of ... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 A first week Land Army student operates the milk cooler and separator as part of her training at the Northampton Institute o... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Three members of the Women's Land Army do the 'Silo-Step' as part of their training at the Northampton Institute of Agricult... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 27 year old Dorothy Lacey was a waitress before volunteering for the Land Army. She had been bombed out in Bristol and in B... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Sylvia Smith sprays tomatoes in a greenhouse as part of her training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. A shortha... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Three Land Girls work with hoes in a field as part of their training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture.
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Sylvia Smith was a shorthand typist before beginning her Land Army training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. He... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 A member of the Women's Land Army drives a small herd of cows down a narrow country lane, ready for milking, as part of her ... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 After a hard day's training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture, Land Girls enjoy a sing-song around the piano, play... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 After four weeks training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture, Iris Joyce (fourth from left) and friends sit in a ra... More
British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles TR113
British Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles Valentine tanks on a training exercise at Bovington, 1942.
Celebration of 'quatorze Juillet', the Famous French Holiday, at Parks...
Celebration of "quatorze Juillet", the Famous French Holiday, at Parkstone Quay, Harwich. 14 July 1942. The winner of the cycle race, receiving a helping hand at the half-way stage.
Czech Newspaper in Britain- Wartime News and Propaganda, England, 1942...
Czech Newspaper in Britain- Wartime News and Propaganda, England, 1942 Men at work on a modern printing presses on which the Czechoslovakian newspaper 'Czechoslovak Tydenik' is being printed. The newspaper is ... More
Czech Newspaper in Britain- Wartime News and Propaganda, England, 1942...
Czech Newspaper in Britain- Wartime News and Propaganda, England, 1942 Kornel Synek (centre) is the deputy editor of the weekly newspaper for Czechoslovakians in Britain, 'Czechoslovak Tydenik'. Here he consul... More
Dr Gibson-Hill examines Irene Stacey with a stethoscope at Southmead H...
Dr Gibson-Hill examines Irene Stacey with a stethoscope at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, prior to the birth of her first child in 1942.
Dredge corn, a mixture of oats and barley used for stock feeding, bein...
Dredge corn, a mixture of oats and barley used for stock feeding, being harvested at Ralph Hoare's farm at Staverton in Devon, September 1942. The War Effort: Dredge corn, a mixture of oats and barley used for ... More
Horsa FL9041. Warship photograph collection
Horsa Underway in the River Humber Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Irene Stacey holds her four-day-old son Peter at Southmead Hospital, B...
Irene Stacey holds her four-day-old son Peter at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, 9 September 1942. A restful portrait of mother and child. Irene Stacey holds her four-day-old son Peter Winston as he sleeps at Sou... More
Iris Joyce, a new recruit to the Women's Land Army is weighed at the N...
Iris Joyce, a new recruit to the Women's Land Army is weighed at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture, during 1942. New Land Army recruit Iris Joyce (aged 19) is weighed at the Northampton Institute of Agri... More
Land Girls Audrey Prickett and Betty Long set a rat trap in a hay stac...
Land Girls Audrey Prickett and Betty Long set a rat trap in a hay stack as part of their training on a Sussex farm during 1942. Land Girls Audrey Prickett and Betty Long pre-bait a trap in a hay stack as part o... More
Land Girls enjoy a hot cup of tea after a hard day of rat catching on ...
Land Girls enjoy a hot cup of tea after a hard day of rat catching on a Sussex farm during 1942. Land Girls Eileen Barry, Audrey Willis, Betty Long and Audrey Prickett enjoy a hot cup of tea after a hard day of... More
Land Girls placing chickens into cages as part of the 'Off the Ration'...
Land Girls placing chickens into cages as part of the 'Off the Ration' exhibition at Charing Cross underground station in London during 1942. Land Girls M Slingsby and A Chesterton place chickens into cages as ... More
Land Girls preparing rat poison as part of their training on a farm in...
Land Girls preparing rat poison as part of their training on a farm in Sussex, 1942. Land Girls Eileen Barry (left) and Audrey Willis prepare rat poison as part of their training at a farm in Sussex.
Lockheed Hudson - Thorney Island - Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal ...
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Coastal Command Ground staff prepare a No. 233 Squadron Hudson for flight in freezing conditions at Thorney Island, 19 January 1942. The 'hot air van' has been brought in to warm up t... More
Mechanics at work on the Merlin engines of a Handley Page Halifax Mk I...
Mechanics at work on the Merlin engines of a Handley Page Halifax Mk II of No. 35 Squadron at Linton-on-Ouse, June 1942. Mechanics at work on the Merlin engines of a Handley Page Halifax II of No. 35 Squadron, ... More
Members of the Women's Land Army training at the Northampton Institute...
Members of the Women's Land Army training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture complete a haystack by removing pieces of corrugated iron which formed the ventilation framework for the stack, 1942. Member... More
Mrs Irene Stacey at her workbench in a factory in Bristol during 1942....
Mrs Irene Stacey at her workbench in a factory in Bristol during 1942. Mrs Irene Stacey at her workbench in a factory, somewhere in Bristol.
Mrs M Hasler cooks breakfast for her invalid husband in their home in ...
Mrs M Hasler cooks breakfast for her invalid husband in their home in Barnes, Surrey, during 1942. 42 year old Mrs M Hasler cooks breakfast for her invalid husband at the stove in the kitchen of their home in Barnes.
New recruit to the Women's Land Army, Iris Joyce, learns to drive the ...
New recruit to the Women's Land Army, Iris Joyce, learns to drive the horse-drawn hay rake as part of her training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture near Moulton in 1942. 19 year old Iris Joyce learns... More
New recruits to the Women's Land Army arrive at the Northampton Instit...
New recruits to the Women's Land Army arrive at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture at the start of four weeks training in 1942. Iris Joyce (nearest to the camera) and fellow new recruits to the Women's La... More
New recruits to the Women's Land Army making hay as part of their trai...
New recruits to the Women's Land Army making hay as part of their training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture near Moulton in 1942. Members of the Women's Land Army begin to make hay as part of their t... More
Personnel of 'B' Flight, No. 409 Squadron RCAF, pose for a formal port...
Personnel of 'B' Flight, No. 409 Squadron RCAF, pose for a formal portrait with one of their Beaufighter Mk IIs at Acklington, January 1942. 'B' Flight of No 409 Squadron, Fighter Command's first Canadian night... More
RAF Bomber Command HU107753
RAF Bomber Command A Short Stirling of No. 1651 HCU (Heavy Conversion Unit) being refuelled at Waterbeach, 1942.
RAF Bomber Command HU107814
RAF Bomber Command Short Stirling and crew of No. 1651 HCU (Heavy Conversion Unit) at Waterbeach, 1942.
Short Stirling - Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH5474
Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command Bombing-up a Stirling of No 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU) on a bright spring day at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, 30 April 1942.
Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in...
Short Stirling Mk I of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, 1942. Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3676 'S', of 1651 Heavy Conversion Uni... More
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 A battery of 4.5 inch anti-aircraft guns in action at night. In the foreground is an ATS section operating the height finder.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 An ATS spotter with binoculars at the anti-aircraft command post. A 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun can be seen in the background.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 An ATS spotter with binoculars at the anti-aircraft command post. A 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun can be seen in the background.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 An ATS spotter with binoculars at the anti-aircraft command post. A 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun can be seen in the background.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls working the Kine-Theodolite which photographs the shell burst, thereby checking the results of the Predictor crews.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls operating a height and range finder, calculating data on enemy aircraft for passing to the Gun Post Officer.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 A battery of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns firing at night.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls working the Kine-Theodolite, which photographs the shell bursts, thereby checking the results of the Predictor crews.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls operating the height and range finder. The Section Leader is reading the height.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 The Predictor team of ATS girls at work.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls using an identification telescope.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls using an identification telescope.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 A battery of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns firing at night.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls operating the height and range finder.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 The Predictor team of ATS girls at work.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls using an identification telescope.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 A battery of 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns firing at night.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS Kine-Theodolite operators viewing the developed film taken by the Kine-Theodolite.
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Brit...
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 ATS girls using an identification telescope.
The narrowboat, 'HEATHER BELL' heads for the collieries through the in...
The narrowboat, 'HEATHER BELL' heads for the collieries through the industrial Midlands to collect a fresh cargo during 1942. With Miss March, dressed in overcoat and head scarf, at the tiller, the 'HEATHER BEL... More
The Royal Air Force in Britain, 1942 TR4
The Royal Air Force in Britain, 1942 A rigger cleans the cockpit perspex while an armourer rods the barrels of the front turrets of a recently received Handley Page Halifax I at Linton-on-Ouse.
The Royal Air Force in Britain, October 1942 TR186
The Royal Air Force in Britain, October 1942 The seven man crew of an Avro Lancaster bomber wait near the crew room at Waddington, Lincolnshire for transport out to their aircraft. The pigeons seen in boxes in ... More
Three Land Girls harvest flax on a farm in Huntingdonshire during 1942...
Three Land Girls harvest flax on a farm in Huntingdonshire during 1942. Three Land Girls harvest flax in a field which had been derelict the previous year. One woman drives the tractor as the two others sit at... More
Work on a Naval Air Station, Lee-on-solent, October 1942 A13212
Work on a Naval Air Station, Lee-on-solent, October 1942 Wren Parachute Packers testing an open parachute on the airfield at Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Churchill and Oveta Culp Hobby in England - NA...
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stirling of 7 sqn - A group of men standing next to a plane on a runwa...
A bomb-train of twenty four 250lb bombs arriving to be loaded by the waiting Royal Air Force armourers into a en:Short Stirling bomber]] (s/n N6101) of No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshi... More
Stefan Witorzenc (lewa) i Stefan Janus (prawa)
Polski: Piloci Stefan Witorzeńć (lewa) i Stefan Janus (prawa). Norholt, 2. półrocze 1942 r.
Hawker Henley at Boscombe Down 1942
A Royal Air Force Hawker Henley TT Mark III (serial L3276) at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, March 1942. L3276 served with No. 1628 (Anti-Aircraft Cooperation) ... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7690
Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret. See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7691... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7691
IWM caption : "Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret". See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7692
IWM caption : "Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret". See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7693
IWM caption : "Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret". See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7694
IWM caption : "Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret". See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb... More
Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb 1942 IWM A 7695
IWM caption : "Changing the 16 inch guns on HMS RODNEY at Cammel Laird shipyard, Birkenhead. Lowering a gun into position in "A" turret". See also : File:Installing 16 inch gun on HMS Rodney at Birkenhead Feb... More
Mobile Howitzer Gun at the Scotswood Works (19982054099)
5.5 inch Mobile Howitzer Gun in 22 Shop, Scotswood Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 October 1942 (TWAM ref. DX1529/1). ‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 A first week Land Army student operates the milk cooler and separator as part of her training at the Northampton Institute ... More
Manufacturing Pom Pom guns at the Scotswood Works (24394160522)
Pom Pom Metadyne Guns under construction in 22 Shop, Scotswood Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 23 October 1942 (TWAM ref. DX1529/1). ‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturi... More