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• BASTILLE DAY IN COURSEULLES, NORMANDY, 14 JULY 1944

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

  British and American troops join with local inhabitants of Courseulles in the ceremony at the War Memorial. Courseulles was the first town to be liberated by the Allies.

• ALLIED FORCES IN ROME, JUNE 1944

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

  View of the Vittoria Emmanuel memorial and the Piazza Venezia in Rome. In the foreground is an American jeep.

• ALLIED FORCES IN ROME, JUNE 1944

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

  View of the Vittoria Emmanuel memorial and the Piazza Venezia in Rome, with leave party trucks parked in the foreground. In the background is the Unknown Warrior's Tomb.

• THE FIFTH ARMY IN LAURO, ITALY, 19 JANUARY 1944

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

  Street scene in the front line town of Lauro. The little village is crowded with British and Italian soldiers, ambulances, and all the varied vehicles of war.

• BRITISH SOLDIERS ON LEAVE IN LETINO, ITALY, 6 MAY 1944,

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

  British soldiers on leave in the small village of Letino on the top of a mountain nearly a mile above sea level. Driver Raymond Peach from Whichford Banbury watching how wool is woven by an expert. The local civilians still dress in the traditional...

• BRITISH SOLDIERS ON LEAVE IN LETINO, ITALY, 6 MAY 1944,

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

  British soldiers on leave in the small village of Letino on the top of a mountain nearly a mile above sea level. Driver S Purcell from Ewell, Surrey, accepts a drink of water from a young Italian woman, wearing a traditional costume of the region.

• GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  German civilians employed by the Economics Department of the Allied Military Government requisition furniature from a former Nazi party or SS member's house in Hanover. British soldiers are present to assist the civilian workers in case of trouble.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

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

  An Eighth Army soldier being fed grapes by a pretty Sicilian girl while they ride on the front of a jeep.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN SICILY, AUGUST 1943

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

  An Eighth Army soldier being fed grapes by a pretty Sicilian girl while they ride on the front of a jeep.

• GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Crowds of German civilians in Hanover Rathaus (townhall) waiting for permission to obtain passes from the Public Safety Department of the Allied Military Government.