Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
Two Battle of Britain fighter pilots, Flight Lieutenant Brian Kingcome (left), commanding officer of No 92 Squadron RAF and his wingman, Flying Officer Geoffrey Wellum, next to a Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent, 1941
Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet
Men of the Long Range Desert Group relax with cigarettes after returning to headquarters at the end of a desert patrol, Siwa, Libya, 1942
Join the ATS
Cecil Beaton portrait of Winston Churchill at his seat in the Cabinet Room at No 10 Downing Street, London.
The western bell towers of St Paul's Cathedral in London seen through an archway after the heavy incendiary raid of 29 December 1940.
Go Through Your Wardrobe - Make-Do and Mend
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
A portrait by Cecil Beaton of the pilot and co-pilot of a Wellington bomber of No. 149 Squadron in 1941.
A British sailor uses a sewing machine to repair a signal flag on board the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA en route to Sierra Leone, 1942
Why Not Wear Something White Instead?
Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers
For A Healthy, Happy Job - Join The Women's Land Army
The Royal Air Force: The rear gunner in his position in a Wellington bomber.
Make-Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend
War Weapons Week in a Country Town
AFS - London Needs Auxiliary Firemen Now
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
A soldier battling his way through a sandstorm in the Western Desert during 1942.
A Cecil Beaton photograph of the navigator working at his chart table in an RAF Stirling bomber, 1941.
Flying Officer Neville Duke of No 92 (East India) Squadron with his Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill, 1941. After the war, Neville Duke became one of Britain's leading test pilots and broke the World Air Speed Record in 1953
Alexandria : No. 230 Squadron RAF Sunderland Flying Boat Station. Portrait of an airman standing inside a Sunderland.
