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• PAULA GREEN ENTERTAINING AT HMS RAJALIYA, IN THE FAR EAST, JUNE 1945.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Miss Paula Green, the Blackpool born radio singer gives a song during 'stand easy' to maintenance ratings at HMS RAJALIYA, a jungle Royal Naval Air Station, part of the British East Indies Fleet. The Seafire they are servicing forms the background.

• THE VIETNAM WAR 1962 - 1975

  part of "UNITED STATES ARMY" (photographs) Made by: United States Army official photographer

  Singer and comedian Bob Hope and the Hollywood Deb stars perform at Curry Amphitheatre during Bob Hope's Vietnam Christmas Show, Long Binh, 25 December 1971. The United Services Organisation established a tradition of sending Bob Hope on tour to...

• THE VIETNAM WAR 1962 - 1975

  part of "UNITED STATES ARMY" (photographs) Made by: United States Army official photographer

  The huge audience seated at Curry Amphitheatre, Long Binh, during singer and comedian Bob Hope's Vietnam Christmas Show, Long Binh, 25 December 1971. The United Services Organisation established a tradition of sending Bob Hope on tour to entertain...

• Music - The Mosaic of the Air

  (posters) Made by: T M (artist) 1946-06

  whole: the eight images occupy the majority. The title is partially integrated and positioned in the upper fifth, in black outlined white, and in black, held within a decorative blue inset. The text is separate and placed at the centre and upper centre,...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST, 1941-1945

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Patricia Burke, stage, screen and radio star, accompanied by a flight lieutenant playing a ukelele, entertains pilots of an RAF Squadron while sitting on the wing of a Republic Thunderbolt Mark II at an airfield in Central Burma. Patricia and her mother...

• NOEL COWARD ENTERTAINS THE MEN OF THE EASTERN FLEET, HMS VICTORIOUS, TRINCOMALEE, CEYLON, 1 AUGUST 1944

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Noel Coward standing at the microphone on a flag-bedecked stage on the aircraft lift aboard HMS VICTORIOUS with Norman Hackworth at the piano.

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Neill (Sgt)

  Wartime Entertainers: Noel Coward, British playwright and entertainer, with a British army officer arriving at an airfield for a visit to the British troops stationed in Persia and Iraq. Noel Coward was one of the few star entertainers who braved the...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT, APRIL 1941

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Entertaining the troops: Film shows for wounded soldiers: a hospital audience waits for the start of a programme offered by a Red Cross Mobile Film Unit, April 1941.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN EGYPT, 1943

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Mott (Sgt)

  Entertaining the troops: Cinema was a popular form of recreation for men and women in uniform. A crowd of British men in uniform entering the Femina Cinema in Cairo, Egypt where, as a placard announces, programmes are free to “all ranks of all services”...

• Women's War Services - An Exhibition

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918-02

  whole: the title and text occupy the whole, in black and in red, set against a white background and held within a black border. image: text only. text: Copy as printed. For information only [ink stamp] WOMEN'S WAR SERVICES WOMEN'S ARMY AUXILIARY CORPS...