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• Springfield Model 1878 rifle

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Springfield

  This rifle was one of a number of weapons provided for Home Guard use in 1940 by an American organization called the American Committee for the Defence of British Homes. They mounted a public appeal for firearms and binoculars which could be sent to aid...

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

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

  The United States Army in Britain: Three United States soldiers and their war dogs, who have been posted to a remote part of the United Kingdom, aboard ship.

• BRITISH GOODS IN US MARSHALLING YARDS: ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bryson Jack

  Pfc Ed J Lebeda (of 2448 South 17 Street, Omaha, Nebraska) and Corporal Harvard M Lewis (of 2925 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado) sort through a fresh consignment of nuts and bolts at a US marshalling yard, somewhere in Britain. The nuts and bolts...

• BRITISH GOODS IN US MARSHALLING YARDS: ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bryson Jack

  Corporal Orlington Miller, from Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania, smokes a cigarette with Corporal Tom Forrester, from Stoke-on-Trent and another British soldier. Corporal Forrester and his colleague visited this US marshalling yard to deliver this Tecalemit...

• BRITISH GOODS IN US MARSHALLING YARDS: ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bryson Jack

  American soldiers move large crates of spare car engine parts from beside the railway line at this US marshalling yard, somewhere in Britain. Sergeant Charlie Oliver, from Walton Way Extension, Augustine, Georgia (centre) checks the boxes in.

• BRITISH GOODS IN US MARSHALLING YARDS: ANGLO-AMERICAN CO-OPERATION IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1943

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bryson Jack

  Pfc Bob Brumm, of 141 South Oak Street, West Point, Nebraska, attaches a stove to a crane at a US marshalling yard, somewhere in Britain. This stove is one of a consignment which has just arrived from Scotland.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

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

  Off Duty: A group of United States soldiers taking a nine week course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, listen to a lecture given by the famous actress Miss Flora Robson (not pictured).

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

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

  Black GIs in Britain: Two black soldiers working in the supply depot of a United States Army camp.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

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

  Off Duty: United States troops take tea with the rector and his wife on the vicarage lawn, with Burton Bradstock church in the background.

• AMERICANS IN BRITAIN, 1942 - 1945

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

  American GIs and British Children: GI Sergeant, Bert Spence, teaching a British boy to play the all-American game of baseball.