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

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  Airman keep fit by playing deck tennis under the palms at the RAF station at Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands

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

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  Airmen construct an open-air cinema at the RAF base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

• 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

  RAF and American groundcrew shelter from the sun under the nose of a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 99 Squadron RAF at Jessore, India, after preparing it for a sortie to Burma.

• AUSTRALIAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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

  Easily identified by their distinctive headgear, South African and Australian soldiers enjoy a game of cards in a gun pit.

• 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”...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Keating G (Capt)

  General Montgomery enjoys a cup of coffee with the Tank Protection Troop of his Grant tank in the Western Desert, 6 November 1942. Left to right: Trooper Keenan, Sergeant Stephen Kennedy, Corporal James Fraser, Lieutenant Malden and General Montgomery.

• THE FRIENDS AMBULANCE UNIT IN GREECE, 1945

  part of "SWANN DONALD" (photographs)

  Donald Swann, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, pictured relaxing in Greece during his service with the Friends Ambulance Unit.

• SPORT & LEISURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "SOUTH AFRICAN SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: South African official photographer

  A boxing tournament on board a South African troopship on the voyage to East Africa.

• VERA LYNN VISITS A MUNITIONS FACTORY, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Vera Lynn sings to workers during a lunchtime concert at a munitions factory, somewhere in Britain.

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Wartime Entertainers: The singer Vera Lynn, who became so popular with British servicemen that she was known as the 'Forces Sweetheart' sings to workers during their lunch break at a factory in the south of England.