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• THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR, 7 DECEMBER 1941

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

  The Salvage Operation: Navy personnel struggle to keep their footing on the tilting deck of the USS OKLAHOMA after she was raised from the bottom.

• THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOUR, 7 DECEMBER 1941

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

  The Salvage Operation: The USS CALIFORNIA being raised from the bottom.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Winston Churchill attends a ceremony at the Guildhall in London to honour the victors of the River Plate action on 23 February 1940. Also present are the Lord Mayor of London and the captains of the Royal Navy ships involved.

• KAMIKAZE

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

  Air Launched Weapons: The recognition silhouette of a Mitsubishi G4M2A 'Betty' 22 bomber fitted with a 'Baka' suicide bomber underneath. When the target is reached the bomb and its suicide pilot are released from the bomber.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  Air cadets and civilians examine the dinghy from a shot-down Junkers Ju 88 on display at Wood Green in London, 31 August 1940.

• GERMAN PREPARATIONS FOR OPERATION SEALION, THE PLANNED INVASION OF ENGLAND, 1940

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

  German invasion barges waiting at Boulogne Harbour, France during the Battle of Britain.

• AIR RAID DAMAGE IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Air raid damage including wrecked houses and school in Hither Green Station area, South East London, Second World War.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL IN WASHINGTON DC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt relax in the grounds of the White House in Washington DC prior to a daily meeting of the joint Chiefs of Staff from the United Kingdom and United States to discuss Allied war strategy.

• ATTACK ON THE THE FRENCH FLEET AT ORAN, NORTH AFRICA, 1940

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

  French sailors escape from fires below deck on board an unidentified French battleship which had been damaged during the attack by Royal Navy warships on the French Fleet at Oran. The controversial attack, which was designed to prevent the French Fleet...

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

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

  Shipping losses: A tanker explodes after being torpedoed by a U-boat in the Caribbean.

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

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

  Shipping losses: A merchant ship sinks stern first after being torpedoed by a U-boat.

• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

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

  Shipping losses: A U-boat shells a merchant ship which remained afloat after being torpedoed.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PERSONALITIES

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

  Lieutenant General H D C Crerar looks at a map while sitting on the wing strut of a light observation plane.

• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

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

  The Falaise Gap: Thick columns of smoke and fire from bombs released by Royal Air Force Halifax and Lancaster aircraft in an air raid on the German positions at Falaise in which 1000 bombers took part.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  A bullet-riddled Dornier Do 17 lies in hop field in Kent, July 1940.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  Civilians and RAF personnel with a Dornier Do 17 that crash-landed among hops in Kent, July 1940.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  Police and RAF personnel examine the rear fuselage of a Heinkel He 111 which came down near houses in Clacton, Essex, 1940.

• GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1939-1945

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

  General de Gaulle saluting as he left the Town Hall in Lavel after addressing the people who had turned out to welcome him. Laval was liberated by United States troops driving through Normandy on 6 August 1944.

• GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1939-1945

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

  General de Gaulle walking across a bridge into Laval, Normandy, during his truimphal tour of liberated towns.

• GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1939-1945

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

  General de Gaulle pictures shaking hands with the United States Commander Lt Gen Dwight Eisenhower at Wellington Barracks, London, during 14th July celebrations in 1942.

• GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1939-1945

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

  General de Gaulle laying a wreath on the Marshal Foch statue at Victoria, London, during the 14th July celebrations in 1942.

• GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, 1939-1945

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

  General de Gaulle addressing a large audience at the Albert Hall during a Fighting French demonstration.

• CHURCHILL INSPECTS A BAZOOKA DURING A VISIT TO AMERICAN FORCES IN BRITAIN

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

  Prime Minister Winston Churchill looks down at the Bazooka he is resting over his shoulder during an inspection of American armoured troops, somewhere in England. Behind him, on the right of the photograph, Lieutenant General Omar N Bradley, Commander...

• NAZI PERSONALITIES

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

  Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben (1884 - 1944): Formal portrait of von Witzleben.

• FIELD MARSHAL THE VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN KG GCB DSO 1887-1976

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

  Military Service 1914 - 1939: A formal portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomery. Between 1931 and 1934 he commanded the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

• CIVILIAN WAR PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Workers carrying out a factory repair on a T-34 tank.

• BENITO MUSSOLINI: 1883-1945

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

  Mussolini's rise to power 1922 - 1940: Mussolini and Hitler pictured together during their first meeting in Venice.

• THE NAZI-SOVIET COOPERATION, 1939-1941

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer 1939-09-28

  Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Germany shaking hands with Joseph Stalin after signing the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, the continuation of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the pact of demarcation of Europe.

• NAZI PERSONALITIES

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

  Generalfeldmarschall Werner von Blomberg (1878 - 1943): Head and shoulders portrait of Von Blomberg in the uniform of a Field Marshal of the German Army. Von Blomberg was War Minister until dismissed by Hitler in 1938.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  German Personalities: Oberstleutnant Werner Molders talking with General Feldmarschall Hermann Goering.

• ADOLF HITLER AT NUREMBERG, 1934

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

  Adolf Hitler addresses the Nuremberg Rally.

• CANADIAN FORCES IN ITALY, 1944

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

  Captain J S Mullaney, a Canadian Army chaplain, holds an open-air mass for men of the Canadian 5th Armoured Division in Italy.

• ADOLF HITLER 1889-1945

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

  The Second World War 1939-1945: Hitler standing at the Trocadero, Paris, with the Pont d'Iena and the Eiffel Tower in the background, during his only visit to the French capital.

• 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)

  Portrait of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, wearing civilian clothes. Taken at the Hotel Astor in New York on 10 August 1934.

• ANIMALS AT WAR: DICKIN MEDAL WINNING PIGEONS

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

  A portrait of 'Commando', a Dickin medal winning pigeon. Commando was awarded the Dickin Medal in March 1945 “For successfully delivering messages from Agents in Occupied France on three occasions: twice under exceptionally adverse conditions, while...

• 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)

  RAF Battle of Britain pilots, photographed with Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding at the Ministry of Information, 14 September 1942.

• ADOLF HITLER.

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

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• JAPANESE ROYALTY

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

  Portrait of HM The Emperor Hirohito of Japan on his favourite horse "Shirayuki" on 6 November 1935.

• ADOLF HITLER AND HIS GERMAN MILITARY LEADERS, 1933-45.

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

  Adolf Hitler with his cabinet.

• THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  HM King Haakon of Norway in naval uniform.

• WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1940

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

  Winston Churchill addresses the crew of HMS HARDY after their return from Norway in April 1940.

• THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  HM King Haakon of Norway and HRH Crown Prince Olaf at their home just outside London.

• THE NORWEGIAN NAZI PARTY

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

  Vidkun Quisling, head of the Norwegian Nazi Party, salutes a Norwegian officer on 1 February 1942.

• PRIME MINISTER LEAVES FOR PARLIAMENT TO MAKE WAR STATEMENT

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

  Winston Churchill on the way to the House of Commons to make his statement on the progress of the war, 28 September 1944. The Prime Minister doffs his hat to the waiting crowd. He is wearing his overcoat, carries his walking cane and is smoking one of...

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  German Personalities: Major Adolph Galland seated in a chair with his dog.

• U-BOAT WARFARE 1939-1945

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

  Personalities: Head and shoulders portrait of Kapitan Leutnant Joachim Schepke who with Prien and Kretschmer, was one of Germany's top U-boat aces.

• NAZI PERSONALITIES

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

  General Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel (1892 - 1944): A formal portrait of Rommel.

• THE NAZI-SOVIET COOPERATION, 1939-1941

  part of "FOREIGN OFFICE POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT (PID) SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer 1939-09-28

  Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Foreign Minister of Germany, sharing a joke with Joseph Stalin while Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, signing the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, the continuation of the Ribbentrop-Molotov...

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

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

  A soldier guards the wreckage of a Heinkel He 111 which crashed in Suffolk, demolishing a rectory in the process, 8 June 1940.

• PEARL HARBOUR 7 DECEMBER 1941

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

  Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet who planned the attack.