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• THE WARSAW UPRISING, 01.08. - 02.10.1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1944-10

  Countess Maria Tarnowska, President of the Polish Red Cross and Dr. Hieronim Bartoszewski, delegate of the Polish Red Cross, being blindfolded by German soldiers before passing through German lines to negotiate the evacuation of civilian population of...

• THE 1ST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION IN HOLLAND, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Photographer 1944-10

  Polish dispatch rider with a happy girl as a passenger, pausing in his journey through the Dutch city of Breda to return greetings of overjoyed townpeople, freed by the Poles from the German occupation on 30 October 1944. Note the 1st Polish Armoured...

• THE 1ST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION IN HOLLAND, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1944-10-30

  Dutch farmer with his household goods on a farm wagon looking down on a line of German POWs interrogated by a Lieutenant of the 1st Polish Armoured Division. The photograph was taken after Polish troops captured the Dutch towns of Alphen and Gilza on...

• THE 1ST POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION IN HOLLAND, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1944-10

  Polish soldiers in Holland share their rations with Dutch children. Children waiting for their turn while tankmen of the 1st Polish Armoured Division receive food rations somewhere on the Tilburg Front.

• THE POLISH NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Central Press photographer 1940-04-19

  The Polish Navy submarine ORP Orzeł (Eagle) returning to her depot ship at Rosyth after taking part in operations off Norway where she accounted for two enemy transport ships. She was lost in the North Sea, probably mined, on 8 June 1940.

• RAF BOMBER COMMAND

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Charles E Brown

  A Vickers Wellington bomber from a Polish squadron, circa August 1941.

• THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Polish Air Force Film Unit photographer 1944-04-25

  Ground crew servicing an Avro Lancaster of No 300 Polish Bomber Squadron RAF at Faldingworth, Lincolnshire.

• THE WARSAW UPRISING, 01.08. - 02.10.1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Planet News photographer 1944-10

  A Polish woman leaves the building through the hole knocked in the wall.

• THE WARSAW UPRISING, 01.08. - 02.10.1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keystone Press photographer 1944-10

  A Polish woman, ill or wounded, carried in a deskchair out of Warsaw after a surrender of the Uprising.

• LUFTWAFFE RAIDS OVER BRITAIN

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer

  Two senior RAF officers examining the wreckage of a Heinkel He 111 which crashed at Clacton, 1 May 1940. The bomber's defensive 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns and ammunition drums have been collected together.

• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer 1940

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• THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer 1940

  Civilian staff investigate the fuselage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109E4, 'Red 2', of 3./LG 2, in the grounds of a technical college, 1940. Note the 'Mickey Mouse' staffel emblem on the rear fuselage.

• THE GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY, 1940

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" Made by: Press Agency photographer 1940-05-08

  French, British and Norwegian soldiers aboard a Royal Navy warship, 8 May 1940.

• AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS, 1940

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" Made by: Press Agency photographer

  Firemen tackle a blaze during a large-scale Air Raid Precautions (ARP) exercise in the south coast towns of Portsmouth, Gosport and Southampton on 25 February 1940. An imitation Luftwaffe aircraft and an overturned car containing a 'dead' body present...

• ISSUE OF GAS MASKS TO BRITISH CIVILIANS, 1940

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" Made by: Press Agency photographer

  Air Raid Precautions (ARP) wardens fit respirators to women at a sandbagged wardens' post in Sheffield on 24 July 1940.

• THE WAR IN FINLAND, 1940

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Finnish official photographer

  A Finnish ski patrol, lying in the snow on the outskirts of a wood in Northern Finland, on the alert for Russian troops, 12 January 1940.

• HMS HOOD

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  HMS HOOD going into action against the German battleship BISMARCK and battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941. This image taken from HMS PRINCE OF WALES was the last photo ever taken of HMS HOOD.

• AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS IN LONDON, 1939

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Sandbagged petrol pumps at West Hill, Wandsworth, London.

• MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Press Agency photographer

  HM Submarine TRIAD at Stavanger, Norway.

• THE NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN 1940: NAVAL OPERATIONS

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION"

  The Loss of the SS ORAMA, 8 June 1940: The German destroyer HANS LODY stops to pick up the crew of the ORAMA. The bows of the liner can be seen raised above the water behind the destroyer.