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The Nazis use Blitzkrieg, dominating land and air warfare, allowing them to take Poland and conquer France in matters of weeks. Britain and Canada, as well as other Commonwealth countries, declare war on Germany. July 1940, Britain is standing on its last legs while being pummeled by Germany.
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- Flying over Egypt. © IWM (TR 1) A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson Mk VI (AE626) of the Middle East Communications Flight flying over the Egyptian pyramids, 1942.
- Watching the skies. © IWM (TR 454) An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post, December 1942. See object record.
- Making new friends. © IWM (TR 2869) Two soldiers of the Royal Military Police with Anna, a four-year-old Austrian girl with whose family the men were billeted, in the Klagenfurt area of occupied Austria, May 1945.
- Suiting up. © IWM (TR 185A) Men of the Airborne Division adjust their harnesses alongside an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley 'PX-G' of No. 295 Squadron RAF, October 1942.
- United States Eighth Air Force in Britain. © IWM (FRE 6210) Lieutenant Vernon R Richards of the 361st Fighter Group flying his P-51D Mustang nicknamed ‘Tika IV’, during a bomber escort mission in 1944.
- Sew for victory. © IWM (TR 1783) Members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) preparing parachutes for use by British airborne forces during the invasion of Europe, May 1944.
- Keep watching the skies. © IWM (TR 453) An Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) ‘spotter’ at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site, December 1942. See object record.
- The British Army drive on Tunis. © IWM (TR 939) A crew from the 16th/5th Lancers, 6th Armoured Division, clean the gun barrel of their Crusader tank at El Aroussa in Tunisia, May 1943.
Aug 3, 2017 · While color images of the war exist, they aren’t extremely common. Yet official photographers serving with the British armed forces shot nearly 3,000 color photographs, using Kodachrome film ...
Postwar Britain. The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by ...
Colour film was a scarce commodity during the Second World War, making the reproduction of printed works both difficult and expensive. Here are 15 of the images that survived from The Second World War, revealed for the first time and in great detail the world as the people in them would have seen it.
In 1945, Germany is crumbly on both fronts. The Western Allies cross the Rhine and take most of Germany, while the Red Army quickly advances into Berlin. After Hitler's suicide, Germany surrenders and is divided among the allied powers. The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.
