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• THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: NATO official photographer

  The new NATO badge, comprising a white emblem on a navy blue background, henceforward the official colours of the Atlantic Alliance. Lord Ismay, Secretary General of NATO, announced that the North Atlantic Council had adopted this design for the...

• THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Australian troops at rest, possibly just after the ceasefire was announced.

• MALAYA PALM OIL UNDER THE EMERGENCY, C. 1950.

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Each year since the war the production figures of palm oil and kernels have been slowly but surely creeping towards pre-war totals, and care is taken to protect the industry and its workers during the emergency. When the manager of a palm oil estate goes...

• THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.

• THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  V bombers of the Royal Air Force in flight. An Avro Vulcan, Vickers Valiant and Handley-Page Victor from the Ministry of Supply Research and Development establishment at Boscombe Down in formation over the sea during development trials. These aircraft...

• THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.

• BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR TEST PROGRAMME: OPERATION HURRICANE

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  A scene from the British Ministry of Supply film "Operation Hurricane", made during the Monte Bello atomic experiment. Sir William Penney, the scientific director in charge of the explosion, watches through binoculars the effect which developed after the...

• THE ROYAL NAVY 1945 -1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Fleet Air Arm official photographer

  The Battle class destroyer HMS DUNKIRK at sea in the 1950s.

• BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN GERMANY, 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British official photographer

  Women's Royal Army Corps telephone operators at work on a major telephone switchboard at the British Army of the Rhine headquarters in Germany.

• THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, FARNBOROUGH, APRIL 1949

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  A 10cm radar ground station unit, intended primarily for use in operations in the Far East. The equipment was built in a form which could be subdivided for transportation by air.

• TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...

• TERRITORIAL ARMY UNITS ON SALISBURY PLAIN, AUGUST 1949

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  General Sir Evelyn Barker, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, discusses Territorial Army Training with Mr Michael Stewart MP, Under Secretary for War and a group of Territorial Army officers during a visit to Territorial Army units on...

• TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...

• TESTING CENTRIFUGAL FORCE AT FARNBOROUGH, 20 JANUARY 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  What happens to the body of a pilot when he suddenly turns his machine and the centrifugal forces come into action. One of the effects being a dimming of vision and the forcing down of the body and the soft tissues. This stress is known by a factor "g",...

• THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Australian Army official photographer

  End of hostilities in Korea, 27 July 1953. As the armistice agreement is signed at Panmunjom, Cpl Laurie Ewington, C Coy, 2 Bn Royal Australian Regiment, smiles at the camera. The front line trench in which he is standing was bombarded by some 4000...

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Lieutenant Abdullah Jofri (left) and Lieutenant J H I Ramli (right), trainee helicopter pilots of the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Air Wing, display the Overseas Student Prize trophy, awarded to them jointly on their graduation from the Royal Air Force...

• THE ROYAL NAVY 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  A Royal Navy hovercraft coming ashore.

• SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED FORCES EUROPE 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: SHAPE official photographer

  General Alfred M Gruenther, newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACUEUR), confers with his senior offices on issues relating to the plans and preparations for the defence of Europe at SHAPE Headquarters, Rocquencourt, France, 17 July 1953....

• THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: McConkey, Joe W (Cpl, US Army)

  Brigadier Thomas Brodie, Commanding General of the 29th British Brigade in Korea.

• THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC CANBERRA, BRITAIN'S FIRST JET BOMBER, MAY 1949

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  The A1 jet bomber, later renamed the English Electric Canberra, powered by two Rolls Royce Avon jet engines, during early testing at Warton in Lancashire.

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Supply official photographer

  The English Electric Canberra B2 jet bomber, 1950. The Canberra was powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon engines. This is the version under production for the Royal Air Force.

• THE WELSH GUARDS IN LONDON, 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  Three Welsh Guards, left to right, Sergeant Luckhurst, Sergeant Skee and Sergeant Daly, preparing to leave Wellington Barracks, London to travel to Brussels to take part in the anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the city in 1944 and to attend...

• THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Canadian Official photographer

  Student pilots and navigators from Italy, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Canada in front of a Harvard training aircraft whilst attending the NATO air training scheme at the Royal Canadian Air Force Flying School at Centralia, Ontario, Canada. Left to...

• THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  A Royal Air Force Canberra PR3 Photographic Reconnaissance aircraft at a British air base (possibly RAF Binbrook) in April 1951. This photograph is believed to show one of the first Canberras to enter operational service with 101 Squadron at RAF...

• THE SUEZ CRISIS (OPERATION MUSKETEER) 1956

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Aerial view of damage in Port Said, 17 November 1956.

• THE KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Men of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, who are fighting with the United Nations Land Forces in Korea together with the British 27th and 29th Brigades, crossing the Taedong River bridge, while Engineers of the United States force...

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan Department of Information official photographer

  Squatter resettlement under the Briggs Plan, 1950. The inaugural meeting of a co-operative society formed by Chinese civilians who had been resettled on new land. With them are officials from the Federal Department of Co-operative Societies, welfare...

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer

  Three captured communist bandits photographed with their weapons - a rifle, shotgun and two grenades in a village in Malaya.

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer

  A woman of Simpang Tiga searches the burned earth where her home once stood for salvage after a communist attack on her village.

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malayan official photographer

  A child with an injured leg lies in hospital after being wounded during an attack by Chinese communists on the village of Kepong, eight miles from Kuala Lumpur on 7 March 1950. The gang sprayed bullets into a canvas tent where a film was being shown....

• BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Dusk falls over Hong Kong harbour as the aircraft carrier HMS UNICORN, helped by tugs, swings round, heading northwards for Pusan, South Korea, carrying men of the Middlesex Regiment.

• AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEERS TRAINING FOR KOREA, 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Australian soldiers being trained at a military camp near Sydney, New South Wales.

• BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  From the deck of HMS CEYLON, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the High Commissioner for South East Asia, addresses men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders paraded on the dock below, before they board the cruiser for the journey to Pusan, South Korea.

• BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Corporal John MacDonald of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders waiting to embark on the cruiser HMS CEYLON for the journey to Pusan, South Korea.

• BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  From their camp near the Hong Kong - China border, the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders arrive at the embarkation point by train. The men detrain on waste ground near to the wharf from which they will sail to Pusan, South Korea on board...

• BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE HONG KONG TO JOIN UNITED NATIONS FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Men of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders boarding the cruiser HMS CEYLON for the journey to Pusan, South Korea. In the background the band of the King's Own Scottish Borderers play on.

• HMS BELFAST IN KOREA, 1950-1952

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  A South Korean naval craft coming alongside HMS BELFAST during blockade patrols off Inchon.

• THE FIRST OPERATION OF NO 1 SQUADRON, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE FROM TENGAH, SINGAPORE, AUGUST 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  One of the first Avro Lincoln aircraft to set off from Tengah on a bombing operation to inaugurate No 1 Squadron's anti-bandit activities in Malaya, revving up its engines before taxying out to the runway.

• BRITISH FORCES IN GERMANY 1945 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Beswick (Staff Sgt)

  Exercise NORDIC, involving troops from Britain, Norway and Denmark in North Germany, August 1950. Tanks of the Royal Tank Regiment cross a bridge during the exercise.

• BRITISH FORCES IN BERLIN, GERMANY 1949 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  Major General G K Bourne, General Officer Commanding British Troops Berlin, calls for "Three cheers" for His Majesty King George VI during the King's Birthday Parade near the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, 8 June 1950.

• OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN MALAYA, MAY 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Hoisting the final bomb into the bomb-bay of an Avro Lincoln of No 57 Squadron, Royal Air Force at RAF Tengah, Singapore, prior to an airstrike against insurgents in Malaya.

• OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN MALAYA, MAY 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Preparing an Avro Lincoln bomber of No 57 Squadron, Royal Air Force at RAF Tengah, Singapore for airstrikes against insurgents in Malaya.

• THE KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE IN GERMANY, 8 JUNE 1950

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The parade seen from the Kurhaus, Bad Oeynhausen, during the ceremony to mark the birthday of His Majesty King George VI.

• BRITISH FORCES IN BERLIN, GERMANY 1949 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  Generale D'Armie Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Chief of Staff of NATO Forces in Europe, is greeted by Lieutenant General Sir Charles F Keightley, Commander-in-Chief British Army of the Rhine, on arriving in Berlin to watch a training exercise. Generale...

• BRITISH FORCES IN BERLIN, GERMANY 1949 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  Senior British and French Army officers observe a NATO exercise in Germany, c 1950. Lieutenant Colonel F Stephens , Commanding Officer 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade explains the exercise to a group of officers including Generale D'Armie Jaen de...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN GERMANY 1945 - 1975

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: British Army official photographer

  The Regimental Band of the Black Watch on parade at Duisburg, Germany, in the 1950s shortly before leaving for a tour of South Africa.

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Federation of Malaya official photographer

  Soldiers of 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment patrol in the jungle shortly after arriving in Malaya, c 1951. A soldier helps another up a steep bank while a third is standing by at the ready.

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Federation of Malaya official photographer

  Soldiers of 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment patrol in the jungle shortly after arriving in Malaya, c 1951. A patrol spreads out across the 'lallang' (tall grass) as they move into the jungle after leaving the shelter of their armoured vehicles.

• THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948 - 1960

  part of "CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION POST 1945 OFFICIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Federation of Malaya official photographer

  Squatter resettlement under the Briggs Plan, c 1950. A bird's-eye view of a typical resettlement village from the sentry tower. Every space available in the village is being cultivated.