Description
Object description
whole: the 12 images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The text is
separate and placed in the upper centre and beneath each image as a caption, also in black. All set against a white
background.
image: a series of photographs illustrating different aspects of the Allied war effort, including depictions of military vehicles, military
personnel and civilian war workers.
text: M.50050 - H.3697 - D.7851 -13.2.42
THE WAR IN PICTURES
Deadly Load for British Bomber - Where Naval Guns are Made - British Troops on Manoeuvre - Measuring the Speed of Shells - Britain's A.A.
Defenders Always Ready - 'Tin Fish' for a Beaufort.
Filling up the three bomb-racks (which extend practically the whole length of the aircraft) of a new British four-engined 'Stirling' bomber.
Anti-tank gunners haul a 2-pounder gun up a rocky hillside in Northern Island. They are tough lads and fighting fit.
Anti-aircraft defenders of Britain's cities are ready for German raiders. Here a member of an anti-aircraft gun crew swings his rangefinder
to focus on a hostile plane.
Indian soldiers of a Mule Transport detachment in Britain going to exercise their pack animals.
Medium naval guns on final inspection at an Ordnance factory in the North of England, where guns of many calibres are turned out in great
numbers.
British troops advance across a stream during a recent large-scale battle manoeuvre on the England-Scotland border.
Depicting the Noble Effort of the Empire's Men and Women in the Fight for Peace and Freedom
Royal Air Force armourer and maintenance crews prepare a Glenn Martin bomber for a raid. These bombers have done very good work in the
Middle East.
Ground staff of the Royal Air Force wheel out a 'tin fish' (torpedo) to a Beaufort aircraft of the Coastal Command, whose crew stands
waiting to carry the deadly weapon across the North Sea.
Sailors swing overboard the Oropesa float from a British minesweeper, which enables a ship to work alone.
This girl of the Auxiliary Territorial Service is reading gauges in the Velocity room of a School of Army Experiments in Britain, where the
speed of shells is measured after they have been fired.
A young South African fighter pilot serving in the Royal Air Force proudly displays a drawing of a Springbok on his life-saving jacket.
A British tank officer explains forthcoming operations to the crews of his tank squadron in the Libyan desert.
Picture Sheet No. 29.
Issued by Information Officer P.O. Box 384, Salisbury.
Physical description
Picture Sheet No. 29.
Part of a series of posters produced under the titles 'The War in Pictures' and 'The War Told For You in Pictures'.
M.50050.
H.3697.
D.7851.
Inscription
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