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• THE HOME GUARD IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Civilian Home Guard trainees learn to handle guns by drilling with broomsticks.

• INVASION DEFENCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Members of the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) stand guard at a concrete road barricade at Findon, Sussex, 26 June 1940.

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Home Guard soldiers in York prepare a roadblock by inserting metal girders into pre-dug holes in the road, 2 November 1941.

• THE HOME GUARD DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) aim their rifles at a passing RAF aircraft from behind a sandbagged position, 30 July 1940.

• THE HOME GUARD IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Members of the Home Guard defend a roadblock using 'Molotov cocktails', during exercises in the Dover/Folkestone area, March 1941.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE ARMY CO-OPERATION COMMAND, 1940-1943.

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Westland Lysander Mark III, 'OO-E' of No. 13 Squadron RAF based at Hooton Park, Cheshire, provides aiming practice on low-flying aircraft for members of the Home Guard, at the Western Command Weapons Training School at Altcar, near Formby, Lancashire.

• THE HOME GUARD DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  A Home Guard section on patrol along the shores of Loch Stack in the Highlands of Scotland, 14 February 1941

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Home Guard troops defend a roadblock with smoke and rifle fire, 17 August 1941.

• THE HOME GUARD 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Local Defence Volunteers: A member of the Local Defence Volunteers, Bill Giles, in 1940 after completing a course of intensive training. LDV members then returned to their units to pass on what they had learnt.

• WOMEN'S HOME DEFENCE UNITS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Agency photographer

  A member of the local Home Guard gives rifle instruction to a member of the Watford Women's Home Defence Unit.