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• THE PHONEY WAR 1940

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION"

  A Heinkel He 111 which crashed near Whitby, 3 February 1940.

• THE PHONEY WAR 1940

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION"

  A Heinkel He 111 which crashed near Whitby, 3 February 1940.

• ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE LANCASTERS FLY POWS HOME, 1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Le Guay, L (F/O)

  Australian, British and New Zealand former POWs waiting to board No 463 Squadron Lancasters at Juvincourt near Rheims, as part of the massive operation to fly POWs home, 6 May 1945.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Londonderry Naval Base: United States sailors in the workshops run by all American personnel at Londonderry.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Londonderry Naval Base: First Machinist L J Szymanski pictured shortly after his arrival at the Londonderry base.

• GERMAN PARACHUTISTS IN ACTION

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  German parachute troops leaving a plane, Holland, 10 May 1940.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION"

  Workmen carry part of the bullet-riddled fuselage of a Dornier Do 17, alongside the wreckage of other crashed German aircraft at a scrapyard in Britain, August 1940.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Londonderry Naval Base: Some of the United States crews returning from shore leave to their ships at Londonderry Naval Base.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: JAPAN: PERSONALITIES

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Hirohito Emperor of Japan fixing a seal to his documents. Although held by many Westerners responsible for the war in the Far East, all orders being issued in his name, Hirohito remained in the background during the war and only came to the fore as the...

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: A prisoner of war at Changi Jail, Singapore using a home made radio set. If caught by the Japanese he faced the death penalty.

• BRITISH POLITICAL PERSONALITIES 1936-1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Vandyk

  The Churchill Coalition Government 11 May 1940 - 23 May 1945: Members of Churchill's Defence Committee in the garden of 10 Downing Street. Seen in the back row from left to right are: Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral...

• THE CAMPAIGN IN SICILY 1943

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Personalities: Lieutenant General George Patton watches operations from a town in the front line accompanied by his staff.

• BENITO MUSSOLINI: 1883-1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Italy at War 1940 - 1943: Hitler and Mussolini at one of a series of meetings in the Brenner Pass. On the right is Count Ciano the Italian Foreign Minister.

• THE FAR EAST: SINGAPORE, MALAYA AND HONG KONG 1939-1945

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Occupation and Captivity February 1942 - August 1945: Interior view of a crowded prisoner of war hut at Changi Jail, Singapore. Each hut accommodated up to 250 men.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) 1940-07-29

  Spitfire pilots of No. 610 Squadron relaxing between sorties at 'A' Flight dispersal at Hawkinge, 29 July 1940.

• ADOLF HITLER'S FIRST VISIT TO ITALY, 1934

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hoffmann, Heinrich

  A group photograph taken shortly after Hitler's arrival in Italy. In the front row, left to right are Hitler, Mussolini and the German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath. Visible between Hitler and Mussolini is the German ambassador Ulrich von...

• THE MERCHANT NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  View from on board a collier of an East Coast Convoy: merchantmen, mostly colliers, steaming in line in the North Sea.

• THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN ACTION DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Posed photo of Russian soldiers manning a trench in the snow, with the body of a German soldier in the foreground.

• THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) 1942-12-24

  A detachment of Russian ski troops 'making their way up to the front line in readiness for a night raid on the enemy's communications', 24 December 1942.

• FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Second World War: Wreckage of Rudolf Hess' Messerschmitt