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• THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 6 JUNE 1944 - 7 MAY 1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Allen E E (Lt)

  The Battle for Normandy: HMS RODNEY shelling enemy shore positions prior to the British and Canadian attack on Caen, which was launched successfully on 8 July 1944.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Laying the pipeline: A 'Conundrum' being moved into position into a specially constructed dock in preparation for the winding on of the pipe.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Petrol pipe for Operation PLUTO (Pipe Lines Under The Ocean) being wound onto a 'ConunDrum' pipe-laying device, June 1944.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Laying the pipeline: A 'Conundrum'., loaded with pipe, ready to be towed across the Channel.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Installations in the United Kingdom: Inside the PLUTO control centre at Dungeness.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Installations in the United Kingdom: One of the centrifugal pump houses at Dungeness, camouflaged to resemble the surrounding gravel quarry in which it was sited.

• PLUTO (PIPE LINE UNDER THE OCEAN)

  part of "MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER, MINISTRY OF MINES SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Laying the pipeline: Pipe being stored in three quarter mile lengths before being wound onto the 'Conundrum'.

• THE FALL OF BERLIN, 1945

  (photographs) Made by: Grebnev W

  Russian soldiers raise the Soviet flag in victory on the top of the ruined Reichstag building following the fall of Berlin, 2 May 1945.

• THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN THE HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE, AUGUST 1944

  part of "SPECIAL FORCES CLUB" (photographs)

  Captain John Roper of the SOE (Special Operations Executive), photographed in a wood near Savournon, soon after parachuting into the Haute Savoie region of France.

• THE FRENCH RESISTANCE IN THE HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE, AUGUST 1944

  part of "SPECIAL FORCES CLUB" (photographs)

  Group of Maquis known as ‘the poachers’ near Savournon, Haute Savoie. Standing third and fourth from left are Captains John Roper and Robert Purvis of SOE (Special Operations Executive).