British Miscellaneous

[Louis]

Aug 1944, from the observation post, W. Churchill looks an assault against enemy positions north of Florence, Italy.

 

[Louis]

Buses passing through thick smoke screens during Civil Defence Service training operations, London, 1942.

 

[Louis]

Rescuers search amongst rubble for salvageable items following a V1 impact in south London, 1944.

 

[Louis]

Personnel of the Home Guard are given plane-spotting training, using models, charts and blackboard diagrams, 1941.

 

[Louis]

Aug 1942; W Churchill looks into the desert in the area of El Alamein in North Africa.

 

[Louis]

1940, a guardian of London zoo puts a boa constrictor into a box, its shelter during the air raids. The bulb provided the heat.

 

[Louis]

British residents go about their activities unperturbed as a fleet of US tanks and armored vehicles rolls along a street in the south of England in the run-up to invasion of Normandy.

 

[steve]

British residents go about their activities unperturbed as a fleet of US tanks and armored vehicles rolls along a street in the south of England in the run-up to invasion of Normandy.

I like the inscription on the side of that american vehicle..........Adolf's Hearse............

 

[Gunner]

Good eye on that one Steve

 

[steve]

Good eye on that one Steve

Thanks,
Am always one for studying the photos, it’s surprising what can easily be missed.
Same goes for when I’m out and about sightseeing.
(Says the bloke who walked into a glass door outside the hotel he’d been staying at for four days already ..... a few years back on holiday with the family)

Steve

 

[Louis]

Training of men from Army Film and Photographic Unit at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, June 1943. Almost 23% were killed in action during the war.

 

[Rico]

Training of men from Army Film and Photographic Unit at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, June 1943. Almost 23% were killed in action during the war.

That is an amazingly high casualty rate.

 

[Louis]

Workmen painting directional arrows by the entrance to a air raid shelter in Parkstone Rd, Peckham, London. Jan. 1940

 

[Nort]

 

[Louis]

Members of the Womens Auxilliary Air Force working to track progress of German bombers during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command in the pic (third from right),

 

[Louis]

Individual air raid shelter from the guard during the Blitz. ¿?

 

[Gnarly]

Individual air raid shelter from the guard during the Blitz. ¿?

That wasn't my first thought......

 

[Gunner]

Looks like something out of Dr. Who.

Seriously , how terrifying that would be to sit in there during a bombing attack.

 

[Louis]

British despatch rider reads a roadside sign warning about German "Butterfly" bombs.

 

[Louis]

A young Queen Elizabeth II in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1945.