Photos WW2 British & Commonwealth Forces
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London East End, september 1939.
Children evacuating at the start Second World War.
Children evacuating at the start Second World War.
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A squadron of armoured cars sets out across the desert after leaving Fort Rutbah, Iraq, which they had captured. 1941.
Photographer: James Jarche for Life Magazine
Photographer: James Jarche for Life Magazine
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A gunner with 80th Medium Regiment (Scottish Horse) fusing a 4.5-inch shell, Sicily. 31 July 1943.
Source: IWM
Source: IWM
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Royal Air Force gunner Robert Bozdech with his dog Antis (Ant). They found each other after Bozdech's plane crashed in northern France in 1940.
After that they were literally inseparable. Antis often snuck up in the aircraft and went with his master up into the sky.
As many other animals during WW2, Antis received the Dickin medal for outstanding courage when he, several times, helped digging out people from the rubble after bomb raids. He would also hear, before his master did, when a bomber was incoming, and so they could warn others.
A couple of books have been written about the two.
After that they were literally inseparable. Antis often snuck up in the aircraft and went with his master up into the sky.
As many other animals during WW2, Antis received the Dickin medal for outstanding courage when he, several times, helped digging out people from the rubble after bomb raids. He would also hear, before his master did, when a bomber was incoming, and so they could warn others.
A couple of books have been written about the two.
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London UK, September 1940.
Woman drinking tea after a German bomb raid during the Blitz.
Woman drinking tea after a German bomb raid during the Blitz.
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Smoke rising from the Surrey Docks, London, England, United Kingdom, Sep 8, 1940, the morning after the opening night of “The Blitz” bombings as seen from London Bridge. Note Tower Bridge silhouetted against the smoke.
United States National Archives
United States National Archives
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Men of the 3rd Canadian Division are carried ashore on a tender, having disembarked from a troopship at Gourock in Scotland. 30 July 1941.
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HMS King George V and USS Washington BB-56 photographed from HMS Victorious (R38) during joint USN/RN Operations in the Atlantic/Arctic April 25 - May 3, 1942
IWM - Parnall, C H (Lt) Photographer
IWM - Parnall, C H (Lt) Photographer
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WWII. Battle of Arnhem, The Netherlands. 17 September 1944. Four men of the British Army's 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment (1 PARA), take cover in a shell hole.
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A soldier, who had both feet shattered by mortar fire and a gunshot wound to the head whilst on Ramree Island, is loaded into a L-5 aircraft to be flown to Comilla in India for an emergency operation, 27 January 1945.
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WWII. Burma - Thailand Railway. c 1943. Allied prisoners of war carrying sleepers in Burma, about forty kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. (Probably Beke Taung). [AWM P00406.026]
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RN Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt receives the surrender of Japanese General Hisakazu Tanaka and Vice-Admiral Ruitaro Fujita at the Government House in Hong Kong - September 16, 1945
Tanaka was later arrested for the execution of Allied prisoners of war, he was found guilty and executed in 1947
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer
Tanaka was later arrested for the execution of Allied prisoners of war, he was found guilty and executed in 1947
LIFE Magazine Archives - John Florea Photographer
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