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• WINSTON CHURCHILL 1874 - 1965

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  2nd Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895.

• THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK, MAY 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Survivors from the BISMARCK are pulled aboard HMS DORSETSHIRE on 27 May 1941.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  West Indian aid to Britain: An ambulance presented to Britain by the people of Jamaica.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE EQUIPMENT, 1939-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, 1,390-hp, 12-cylinder liquid-cooled, supercharged in-line aircraft engine.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN MALTA, GIBRALTAR AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940-1945.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Gloster Sea Gladiator Mark I, N5520, on the ground at an airfield in Malta, probably while being flown by No. 261 Squadron RAF at Ta Kali. The aircraft has been refitted with a Bristol Mercury engine and three-bladed Hamilton propeller salvaged from a...

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE: AVRO 683 LANCASTER.

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Annotated view of the instrument panel and flying controls of an Avro Lancaster B Mark I.

• THE FRENCH RESISTANCE, 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Wrecked locomotives in an engine shed at the Annemasse railway depot after being sabotaged by members of the French Resistance.

• THE CIVILIAN EVACUATION SCHEME IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Children play in the street of a village somewhere in England after being evacuated from London.

• BRITISH EVACUEES RETURN HOME

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Children returning home, wave goodbye from the rear window of their bus to the families with whom they were billeted as evacuees.

• BRITISH EVACUEES RETURN HOME

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A group of tired young children with their mother in a train carriage during their journey home after being evacuated.