RM2B6JRJ1–GERMANS HANG SOVIET CIVILIANS. Five Russians await hanging near the town of Velizh in the Smolensk region of NW Russia in September 1941. German soldiers await the order to tip over the makeshift platform while the next group to be executed stand behind blindfolded. In September 1942 German occupation forces murdered all but 17 of the town's 1440 Jewish population.
RMEHACRC–ILYUSHIN Il-4 Soviet WW2 bomber. Ground crew preparing flares for use in night bombing raids about 1943. Note the ladder entry to the cockpit.
RMEGNE9X–GERMAN PANZERTRUPPEN during WW2
RMBMN71K–RODION MALINOVSKY (1898-1967) Soviet military commander in WW2
RMB976R9–ENIGMA German cypher machine being operated by Wehrmacht troops during WW2
RM2NDD4HR–GRIGORY RECHKALOV (1920-1990) One of the highest scoring Soviet fighter pilots of WW2
RM2GGDG2K–NOOR INAYAT KHAN, GC (1914-1944) British SOE spy in WW2
RM2EA3G24–RUSSIAN ARMY SOLDIERS IN WW2 including a very young boy. Photo: SIB
RMKDRFTA–LYDIA LITVYAK (1921-1943) Soviet Air Force fighter pilot in WW2
RM2GGDG76–VIRGINIA HALL (1906-1982) American spy who worked with the SOE and OSS in WW2
RMDDJH5C–AMERICAN WW2 COMMANDERS in 1945 with Eisenhower seated centre. For other names see Description below
RMB6H7TM–GENERAL ZIGMUNT BERLING Commander of the First Polish Army Corps supporting the Red Army in WW2
RMC5YGCF–WACO CG-4 US Army Airforce troop and cargo glider widely used in WW2
RM2JJNWW9–PAULINE GOWER (1910-1947) British pilot and founder of the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary in WW2.'
RMBMP3P8–PETER MORLAND CHURCHILL (1909-1972) was an SOE officer during WW2 and married his SOE agent Odette Sansom
RM2DM2440–AMERICAN WAR BONDS ADVERT WW2 featuring endorsements from Bob Hope, Gary Cooper, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth
RM2E7MDW7–WILLIAM JOYCE (1906-1946) nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw. American-born German Nazi propagandist broadcaster to the UK during WW2.
RMEBHM2G–GERMAN SURRENDER WW2 General Alfred Jodl signs the instruments of unconditional surrender at SHAEF HQ in Reims, 7 May 1945
RMKDRXYE–BARRON HILTON (born 1927) American business man whose father founded the Hilton hotel chain. As an enthusiastic pilot and photographer with the US Navy in WW2.
RM2B1KKY7–ORDE WINGATE (1903-1944) British Army officer who led deep penetration missions into Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of WW2. Photographed in 1943.
RMHG3N5R–HOLLAND WW2 - RAF reconnaissance photo from 5700 ft showing breaks in the dykes at Westkapelle and flooding inland on 17 October 1944 following repeated bombing attacks by 630 and 227 Squadrons.
RMHGAX6W–WW2 GERMAN SURRENDER 7 MAY 1945. On behalf of the German High Command General Alfred Jodl prepares to sign the unconditional surrender document at Allied HQ, 12 rue Franklin Roosevelt, Rheims. See Description below.
RM2AC471P–IVA TOGURI d'AQUINO (1916-2006) American-born Japanese broadcaster who shared the title Tokyo Roase with several other women who broadcast Japanese propaganda during WW2. Seen here in September 1945 being questioned by American media correspondents. Photo: US Navy
RMA2JPD1–WW2 US Navy aircraft carrier YORKTOWN
RMA2JR09–WW2 German troops question a Russian woman
RMA2JP0D–WW2 RUSSIAN troops in the centre of Danzig March 1945
RMAN1JN8–US PARATROOPER - WW2 see description below
RMA2JR07–US ARMY WW2 Special squads of motorbike troops are trained at a camp in Austaralia
RMA2JPCF–WW2 US Army Airforce bomber pilot and crew line up for Military Medal awards at their Tunisia base in 1943
RMA2JPDA–WW2 Giant cash register and a band help the US to sell War Bonds in Times Square New York in 1944
RMAJMDB9–WW2 D DAY US casualties await temporary burial in Normandy 8 June 1944 each with a white stake marked with his identity
RM2WE4WF9–OPERATION HUSKY 1943. American jeep crew keep a careful eye open for enemy aircraft in Tunisia prior to the invasion of Sicily.
RM2WE4WFY–OPERATION HUSKY 1943. An American paratrooper checks his weapon prior to the airborne attacks on Sicily in July.
RMEHBW99–SOVIET SNIPER in an Arctic unit about 1943
RMEHBNR5–GERMAN CONVOY in east Prussia after attack by Soviet Sturmovik IL-2 aircraft about 1943
RMC134EX–BERLIN 1945 Russian officers in the capital after it's capture by the Red Army
RM2X4A4WF–SIMONE SEGOUIN ( 1925- 2023) French resistance fighter in August 1944
RM2WERNEJ–TEHRAN CONFERENCE November-December 1943. Joseph Stalin the in the grounds of the Russian embassy. Photo: Lewis Gale
RM2WERNDG–NUREMBERG TRIALS 1945-46.Prosecution display diagram of overlaps between the Gestapo and the German Police.
RM2WE4TR9–BOEING B-17G of the USAAF 834th Bombardment Squadron flying from RAF Sudbury, England, takes a direct hit from flak on a mission over Germany on 2 November 1944. The other aircraft are dropping bombs through cloud after the target was conformed by the master bomber. Photo taken by S/Sgt Bill Stewart from his waist window.
RM2WE4W5R–OPERATION HUSKY 1943. American jeep crew in Tunisia prepare a meal while waiting for orders prior for the invasion of Sicily from north Africa.
RM2WE4W5C–JAPANESE SAILOR RECRUITS about 1943
RM2WE4W0J–BRITISH SOLDIER 1940
RM2WE4WBX–PARATROOPER Unidentified English paratrooper probably on a training nexercise about 1941
RM2WE4W12–DUNKIRK EVACUATION - Operation Dynamo - 26 May-4 June 1940. Oil refinery on fire.
RM2WDAABE–B-17F The Careful Virgin of 323rd USAF Bomb Squadron completed over 30 bombing missions before being destroyed attacking a V-bomb launch site in France in August 1944.
RM2WCMDB6–LANCASTER RADIO OPERATOR about 1944. He is searching frequencies on a Marconi R1155 radio set above which is a Marconi T1154 transmitter. The operator would normally be wearing gloves at altitude so the large knobs were easier to handle. A Type F morse ket is by his right hand.
RM2WBJBJR–BERGEN-BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, Germany, shortly after its liberation in May 1945
RM2WBJHWR–RED ARMY artillery in the outskirts of Budapest in 1945, Photo: SIB
RM2WCMDC2–ROBERT STANFORD TUCK (1916-1987) Highly decorated English RAF fighter pilot in his Hurricane at Martlesham Heath in November 1940 while commanding 257 (Burma) Squadron
RM2WBJHT3–257 9BURMA0 SQUADRON RAF. The first section of a flight of eight Typhoon Ib's take off from their base at Warmwell, Dorset,, during the summer of 1943 to attack German E boats on the coast of France. Photo: Eric Spencer
RM2WBJAK2–HAWKER TYPHOON Ib FM-K (R4691) of 257 (Burma) Squadron RAF at Warmwell in the summer of 1943. This aircraft was normally flown by F/O E. Spencer. Photo: Eric Sykes
RM2WCMDBY–ROBERT STANFORD TUCK (1916-1987) Highly decorated English RAF fighter pilot in his Hurricane at Martlesham Heath in November 1940 while commanding 257 (Burma) Squadron
RM2WBJHT1–257 (BURMA) SQUADRON RAF A 'Dumbo' emblem painted on the nose of Hurricane 712 of 3 flight at Lyneham in June 1942. Photo: Eric Spencer
RM2WBJA4R–257 9BURMA0 SQUADRON RAF. Pilots from Y flight at Hawarden in the autumn of 1943. Having already completed a tour they were taking a conversion course led by the instructor at far left onto fighter reconnaissance
RM2WBJA5C–PILOTS OF 257 (BURMA) SQUADROM RAF at Warmwell in 1943. Photo: Eric Spencer
RM2WBJAJW–HAWKER TYPHOON Ib (R8691) of 257 (Brma) Squadron RAF probably at High Ercall near Shrewsbury in the summer of 1942. Photo: Eric Spencer
RM2WBJA82–257 (BURMA) SQUADRON RAF. F/O B. Spain of RNZAF at Warmwell in the summer of 1943
RM2WBJA8H–HAWKER HURRICANE FM-C of 257 (Burma) Squadron RAF at Honiley, near Birmingham, in 1942. At this time the squadron was on night-fighting, usualy flying in pairs led by a Havoc equipped with a Turbinlight. Photo: Eric Spenser
RM2W8Y1BY–BOEING B-17 FLYING FORTRESSES of the USAF bombing through cloud over Germany on a signal from the formation leader who used radar to find the target,
RM2TE8MEE–BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE troops at a London railway station before embarking in 1939.
RM2TE8PK1–LANCASTER crew of 63o Squadron RAF return to their East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, base after a successful raid in mid 1944.
RM2TD1TW1–SINO-JAPANESE WAR 1937-1945. Japanese infantry attack under smoke cover.
RM2TCF9BM–JAPANESE IMPERIAL GUARD march on Yoyogi parade ground in Tokyo to celebrate Emperor Hirohito's birthday , 29 April 1941
RM2TCE450–RED ARMY Gun commander about to give the order to fire fire as his troop stand ready with more shells, about 1943. Stooks of wheat stand in open fields in the background.
RM2TBRN61–OPERATION OVERLORD June 1944. Men of No 4 Commando in Ranville on 6th June 1944. Ranville was the first French village liberated on D-Day.
RM2TC2CGN–ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) observers watching for German aircraft in 1940. They are wearing gas masks and use the rangefinder in front of them to determine height and direction.
RM2TBRNAX–YUGOSLAV PARTISANS about 1943.The soldier at left is wearing a captured German camouflage tent
RM2TBRNB3–YUGOSLAV PARTISANS about 1943
RM2TBRNAR–SHERMAN TANK Repairing the forward drive wheel about 1941
RM2TBRN6F–HORSA GLIDER Still from a film about 1942 showing cockpit and towing aircraft
RM2TBRNAA–US SERVICEMEN in Oxford Street,1943
RM2TBDP23–TOKYO Part of the city near the docks after the firebombing of Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF on the night of 9/10 March 1945.
RM2TBDP1K–COVENTRY The city centre after the blitz of 14/15 November 1940. the newly opened Owen Owen department store is top centre.
RM2TB7W9T–EDUARD BENES (1884-1948) Czech sPrime Minister inspecting a Czech Brigade at a base in England in December 1940.
RM2RHEDJJ–HEINKEL He 178 V2
RM2R91HM9–AVRO LANCASTER
RM2R91HKE–AVRO LANCASTER The Woodford, Cheshire, assembly line in late 1942
RM2R91HN3–AVRO LANCASTER
RM2R8RCD7–LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO (1916-1974) Ace Soviet sniper with the Red Army photographed about 1942. Photo: SIB
RM2R4T8BM–ROYAL NAVY AIRCRAFT PLOTTING STATION about 1940
RM2MN2AYB–WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING 1943, At right with submachine gun is SS-Rottenführer Josef Blosche. Others including the boy have not been identified with certainty.
RM2H4T083–THOMAS KENDRICK (1881-1972) British intelligence agent about 1945
RM2H4T082–THOMAS KENDRICK (1881-1972) British intelligence agent with his wife Norah about 1945
RM2GGDFYE–DUŠKO POPOV (19123-1981) Serbian double agent
RM2GE2FDR–WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874-1965) British Conservative Prime Minister giving his famous V sign about 1940
RM2G2BKFX–HANS KREBS (1898-1945) German Army infantry commander who committed suicide in the Führerbunker on 2 May 1945
RM2ET8XR1–HIROSHIMA bombed by USAAF 6 August 1945
RM2EJFJ9R–DRESDEN, Germany, in 1945 after the Allied bombing looking south from the Rathaus (town hall) past the 1910 statue depicting Güte (kindness) Photo: CC BY-SA.3.0 de
RM2EJ7TR5–DRESDEN, Germany, in ruins after the 1945 bombing campaign looking south from the town hall. Photo: SIB
RM2D7WFM1–BERLIN 1945. Original caption: 'After Berlin had finally surrendered to the Red Army at 3pm on May 2, 1945, straggling columns of German prisoners, many half-crazed by the ordeal through which they had come, began to be marched to prison camps on the city's outskirts. Many laughed hysterically and could not stop laughing as they trailed through the shattered city. Here, some of the 120,000 prisoners taken in eight days' fighting for the capital emerge from a ruined building on their way to captivity.'
RM2B7PXAT–JAPANESE KAMIKAZE PILOTS 1945
RM2B6JRK4–RUSSIAN PRISONERS awaiting transport to a German POW camp in November 1941. Photo: SIB
RM2B6JRJX–LUDMILA PAVLICHENKO (1916-1974) Ace Soviet Red Army sniper credited with 309 confirmed kills. After injury from a mortar shell she trained other snipers and acted as spokesperson for the Red Army touring in both Russia, USA,Canada and the UK.
RM2B6JRGF–EASTERN FRONT German soldiers move through a burning Russian village in 1941, supported by an armoured personnel carrier
RM2B6JRJB–SCORCHED EARTH. Russians set fire to their village near Leningrad in 1941 to help foil a German advance.
RM2B6JRJ3–HEINZ GUDERIAN (1888-1954) German general commanding Panzergruppe 2 on the Russian front in September 1941
RM2B6JRJH–LUDMILA PAVLICHENKO (1916-1974) Ace Soviet Red Army sniper credited with 309 confirmed kills.
RM2B6JRK2–SECOND WORLD WAR Russian soldiers with captured German equipment in 1941. Photo: SIB
RM2B6JR9T–ANASTASYA STEPANOV Soviet Red Army sniper about 1942. Photo: SIB
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