Firemen playing their hoses on the smouldering debris left after a German bombing raid on London during the Blitz, 16th October 1940.
Workers clear wreckage at John Lewis's department store in Oxford Street, London, after a Nazi air attack.
Company of National Volunteers from Boyle, County Roscommon drilling at Keash, County Sligo. The Irish National Volunteers objected to Irish...
During a gas and electricity power cut in London's East End, Mr Price offers to cook people's dinner: 'What You Can't Cook, We Can. Bring Your Dinner...
Visitor to a French racecourse wears a high crowned turban style hat perched on her head and tilted over her forehead.
Farm worker ploughing a field with two Shire draught horses as two evacuees gather hedgerow blackberries on 29th September 1940 on farmland at...
View of young female machine shop workers being offered a cup of tea at their benches in the machine shop as they manufacture parts for Supermarine...
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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...
Rudolf Portong of Long Island, USA, shows a Royal Airforce crew worker the mechanism for the ball turret machine gun. American aircrews are...
Councillor AJ Blake, Chairman of the Wartime Allotments Committee holding a megaphone and a sack of onions before launching an allotment exhibition...
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.
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,...
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...