BLOCKADE RUNNER'S END. 10 APRIL 1943, ON BOARD HMS ADVENTURE, IN THE BAY OF BISCAY. ON THE MORNING OF 10 APRIL 1943, THE GERMAN SHIP SILVAPLANA WAS SPOTTED BY ONE OF OUR COASTAL COMMAND AIRCRAFT, AND REPORTED TO HMS ADVENTURE, WHICH WAS RETURNING FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. AFTER A LONG CHASE ADVENTURE CLOSED UP AND SIGNALLED BY SEARCH LIGHT ASKING THE IDENTITY OF THE SHIP. SHE ANSWERED IN A SUSPICIOUS MANNER AND THE ADVENTURE SENT TWO SHELLS CLOSE TO HER BOWS. IMMEDIATELY BOATS WERE LOWERED WITH MEN AS THE SHIP WAS SCUTTLED, BURSTING INTO FLAME AT SEVERAL POINTS . 157 SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP, INCLUDING OVER 100 GERMAN NAVY. THEY WERE ALL BROUGHT TO A UNITED KINGDOM PORT.

This unpleasant-looking character is called the Squander Bug, and it was created during the Second World War by artist Phillip Boydell, an employee of the National Savings Committee. The cartoon bug appeared in press adverts and poster campaigns as a menace who encouraged shoppers to waste money rather than buy war savings certificates.

In 1942, the first of over 1.5 million American servicemen arrived on British shores in preparation for the Allied offensives against Germany during the Second World War. That year, the United States' War Department published Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain to help soldiers, sailors and airmen – many of whom had never travelled abroad before – adjust to life in a new country.