Historical Period - Second World War

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

Three Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I aircraft of 19 Squadron.

Use Spades Not Ships

British commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, landing on 'Queen Red' sector of Sword Beach, at La Breche, on the morning of 6 June 1944.

A heavily-armed jeep patrol from 'L' Detachment SAS in North Africa, 18 January 1943.

The Operations Room at RAF Fighter Command's No. 10 Group Headquarters, Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Wiltshire, showing WAAF plotters and duty officers at work, 1943.

Squadron Leader Brian 'Sandy' Lane, CO of No. 19 Squadron (centre) confers with Flight Lieutenant Walter 'Farmer' Lawson and Flight Sergeant George 'Grumpy' Unwin at Fowlmere near Duxford, September 1940.

Train to be a Nurse

Your Britain - Fight for it Now [South Downs]

A Clear Plate Means a Clear Conscience - Don't Take More Than You Can Eat

Keep Mum - She's Not so Dumb! - Careless Talk Costs Lives

Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring

Mr Churchill Inspecting a 'Tommy' Gun, 31 July 1940

Potatoes - Feed Without Fattening and Give You Energy

Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945.

A Heinkel He 111 bomber flying over the East End of London at the start of the Luftwaffe's evening raids of 7 September 1940.

Better Pot Luck Than Humble Pie - Don't Waste Food!

Together

Children are Safer in the Country...Leave Them There

Never Was So Much Owed by So Many to So Few

Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.

Pilots of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF with one of their Hawker Hurricanes, October 1940.

Our Jungle Fighters Want Socks - Please Knit Now

Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet