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• Invasion Preparations in an English Village

  (art) Made by: Mozley, Charles 1944

  image: A view from an elevated postion looking onto a road in an English village. There are houses and a church in the background to the left, with a number of American military trucks and a jeep parked on the road in the foreground. To the right is a...

• AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: TAYLORCRAFT AUSTER.

  part of "TOSETTI J D A (MAJOR)" (photographs) Made by: Tosetti J D A (Major)

  Taylorcraft Auster AOP Mark IV, MT133, of No 662 (AOP) Squadron RAF, taxying in the snow at Yvert, Belgium.

• Galeries de Paris, Boulogne

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944

  image: a group of British soldiers to the left, and a single British NCO to the right, sit amidst the rubble of the bomb damaged Galeries de Paris in Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France. The building is a mass of twisted, rusty girders, the roof having...

• 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.

• German Prisoners : being assembled and searched at Thiberville

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay

  image: German Prisoners of War sit in groups on the ground, some are wearing armbands marked with a red cross. In the background one is standing with his hands in the air, being searched by a British soldier. To the right another British soldier is...

• Interior of l'Eglise de Notre Dame, Calais

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay

  image: a view of the interior of the heavily bomb damaged L'Eglise de Notre Dame in Calais, France. Much of the roof of the church has been destroyed, the remains of it lying on the ground in the interior, where two British soldiers survey the damage....

• WINSTON CHURCHILL IN GERMANY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR CENSORSHIP BUREAU LIBRARY OF PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Warhurst, H

  Winston Churchill with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and General William Simpson of the 9th American Army at the Siegfried Line, just outside Aachen, Germany, on 6 March 1945.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945.

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

  An Army Liaison Officer (7th from left), aided by photographs and a scale model, briefs Hawker Typhoon pilots of No. 123 Wing at B77/Gilze-Rijen, Holland, for an attack on the Headquarters of General Blaskowitz, the Commander-in-Chief of German Army...

• The Liberation of Guernsey, May 1945

  (art) Made by: Hailstone, Harold William 1945-05-01

  image: View across a square fronting a large building, with an honour guard standing to attention. Dignitaries are gathered on the steps, viewed by a large crowd of civilians in the foreground.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: 2ND TACTICAL AIR FORCE, 1943-1945.

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

  Two engine fitters, Aircraftman 1st class S Smith of Berkhamstead and Corporal G Drew of Dinton near Salisbury, give a daily inspection to a Taylorcraft-Auster Mark IV of 'B' Flight, No. 658 (AOP) Squadron RAF, in a field near Materborn, Kleve, Germany...