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• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroopers in training at Ringway, near Manchester. The photograph shows them dropping through a wooden frame with a central chute through which each man must jump on command. This apparatus helps them to learn to fall in an erect position:...

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian sentry on duty, probably near Ringway, Manchester.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroops exercise as part of their parachute training at Ringway. Here, trainees act as a substitute vaulting horse for their colleague as he does 'flying angel' jumps over them.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian paratrooper practices landing as part of his training at Ringway, near Manchester.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, CHESHIRE, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroops exercise as part of their parachute training at Ringway. Here, trainees act as a substitute vaulting horse for their colleague as he performs 'flying angel' jumps over them.

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  Belgian paratroopers in training at Ringway, near Manchester. The photograph shows them dropping through a wooden frame with a central chute through which each man must jump on command. This apparatus helps them to learn to fall in an erect position:...

• BELGIANS TRAIN IN ENGLAND: PARACHUTE TRAINING AT RINGWAY, NEAR MANCHESTER, 1942

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

  A Belgian paratrooper does 'flying angel' jumps over a wooden horse as part of his 'limbering up exercises during parachute training at Ringway. Two other soldiers lie next to the horse to increase the distance jumped.

• THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: THE WORK OF THE LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER IN WARTIME, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

  Whilst lorry driver Fred Horrod is asleep at his lodgings, workers at the Manchester depot of H & G Dutfield load up his lorry for the return trip to London. The load includes boxes of Calverts tooth powder.

• THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: THE WORK OF THE LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER IN WARTIME, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

  At 9:30am, lorry driver Fred Horrod (left) receives his final instructions from Mr T Wolstenholme, the manager of the Manchester depot of H & G Dutfield, before climbing into his cab for the return trip to London. Fred has had a day of rest in...

• THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT: THE WORK OF THE LONG-DISTANCE LORRY DRIVER IN WARTIME, ENGLAND, UK, 1944

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

  Whenever he is in Manchester, lorry driver Fred Horrod stays with 62 year old Mrs Louie Quaile. Here Fred reads the newspaper whilst Mrs Quaile cooks breakfast. According to the original caption, Mrs Quaile is "known to hundreds of lorry drivers all...