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• HM KING GEORGE VI VISITS AN ADVANCED ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRFIELD IN ITALY, 26 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  HM King George VI leaving a Dakota aircraft of Royal Air Force Transport Command after landing at a forward airfield in Italy.

• BAPTISING BABIES BORN IN BENOUVILLE MATERNITY HOME IN FRANCE, 27 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malindine E G (Capt)

  The Cure of Blainville (Calvados), Abbe Saint Jean baptising a newly born baby in the thirteenth century chapel of Benouville Maternity Home. The baby is held by another mother because its own was still unable to leave her bed. At the time of the...

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A barrage balloon of Balloon Command attached to a winching lorry and anchored to the ground near Biggin Hill, Kent. In the background a number of airborne balloons are visible. Large numbers of barrage balloons were located across the south-eastern...

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A barrage balloon of Balloon Command floating just above the ground, near Biggin Hill, Kent. In the background a number of airborne balloons are visible. Large numbers of barrage balloons were located across the south-eastern approaches to London to...

• HM KING GEORGE VI VISITS AN ADVANCED ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRFIELD IN ITALY, 26 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  HM King George VI talks to a pilot during an inspection of the Desert Air Force in Italy.

• HM KING GEORGE VI VISITS AN ADVANCED ROYAL AIR FORCE AIRFIELD IN ITALY, 26 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  HM King George VI watches a squadron of British fighters take off on a mission from a Humber staff car. In the background the BBC reporter, Godfrey Talbot is preparing his van for recording the occasion.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  View of Waterloo Bridge, London.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  View of Waterloo Bridge, London

• ALLIED FORCES SPORTS MEETING AT THE FORO ITALICO, FORMERLY THE MUSSOLINI FORUM, ROME, JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A view across the stadium with athletes in the centre of the track and the city in the background.

• ALLIED FORCES SPORTS MEETING AT THE FORO ITALICO, FORMERLY THE MUSSOLINI FORUM, ROME, JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Driver Hoe of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and Adolf Meisler from Rheinlander, Wisconsin, USA, shake hands in front of the entrance to the stadium and the Mussolini Monolith.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts with a lorry load of waste paper which they collected for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts with a cartload of waste paper which they collected for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts loading waste paper onto a cart for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts with a cartload of waste paper which they collected for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Cubs collecting waste paper for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• THE HOME FRONT IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  The War Effort: Boy Scouts, Cubs and Sea Scouts loading waste paper onto a cart for salvage at Balderton, Nottinghamshire.

• ALLIED FORCES SPORTS MEETING AT THE FORO ITALICO, FORMERLY THE MUSSOLINI FORUM, ROME, JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Driver Hoe of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and Adolf Meisler from Rheinlander, Wisconsin, USA, shake hands in front of the entrance to the stadium and the Mussolini Monolith.

• 'HARVEST' IN NORMANDY, 17 JULY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  The wreckage of a Ju-88 purported to have been shot down by the Canadian Spitfires of Johnny Johnson's Wing lies not far from airstrip B-7 at Matragny, Normandy. The two French farmers are plaiting straw to bind clover bundles.

• THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, MAY 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A British soldier with a Bren gun in the ruins of Monte Cassino.

• THE YALTA CONFERENCE, CRIMEA, FEBRUARY 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Winston Churchill, MP, the President of the United States, Mr Franklin Roosevelt, and Marshal Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union photographed in the grounds of the Livadia Palace, Yalta during the eight day Yalta Conference...