All toll, 3,812 Americans who fought during World War II are buried he...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cambridge Country: England / Great Britain (ENG) Scene Major Command Shown: USAFE Scene Camera Operator: AMN Christopher Walkenhorst USAF Releas... More
Official pictures of meeting of Stalin, Churchill, Harriman. These are...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
6-inch naval gun overlooking Reykjavik Bay in Iceland, August 1940. H3...
6-inch naval gun overlooking Reykjavik Bay in Iceland, August 1940. 6-inch naval gun overlooking Reykjavik Bay in Iceland, August 1940.
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Norman...
A British infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, Normandy, 9 August 1944. An infantryman prepares to fire a PIAT anti-tank weapon, 9 August 1944.
A Cromwell tank of 7th Armoured Division, Normandy, 30 July 1944. B818...
A Cromwell tank of 7th Armoured Division, Normandy, 30 July 1944. A Cromwell tank of 7th Armoured Division, 30 July 1944.
A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20m...
A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20mm gun, near Tobruk, Libya, 8 May 1941. A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20mm gun, near Tobruk, 8 May 1941.
A Recruit Joins the British Army H17183
A Recruit Joins the British Army The new recruit, Bill Jones, undertakes a written test to check his clerical abilities.
Acquired by the War Artists Advisory Committee under the scheme to enc...
Acquired by the War Artists Advisory Committee under the scheme to encourage the painting of local war activities by Native-born Colonial artists. The scheme favoured work that avoided imitation of European ar... More
Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwa...
Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, March 1945. Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, 24 - 25 March 1945.
AMC germany 20 mark - coin, public domain photograph
20 Mark allied military currency, westallied issue Deutsch: 20 Mark Public domain photograph of banknote, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Lockheed L-214...
American Aircraft in Royal Air Force Service 1939-1945- Lockheed L-214 and L-414 Hudson. Hudson Mark III (long-range version), T9465 UA-N Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees, of No. 269 Squadron RAF Detachmen... More
Arm Him Art.IWMPST3378 - Art Deco public domain image
Arm Him whole: the image is positioned lower right, with text, in black, placed in the top left. A large black arrow below the text and to the left points down towards the image. All is set against a plain whit... More
Arrest That Rat- the work of the Women's Land Army Rat Catchers, Susse...
Arrest That Rat- the work of the Women's Land Army Rat Catchers, Sussex, 1942 Major M Phillips addresses his 'troops', a team of Land Girls, before they commence battle against the rats which live in these pig ... More
ATS Band Visits American Hospitals- Entertainment For Wounded Soldiers...
Ats Band Visits American Hospitals- Entertainment For Wounded Soldiers, Wiltshire, England, UK, April 1945 A drummer of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, wearing a leopard skin tabard over her uniform, chats t... More
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British H...
Battle of the Land- the work of the Women's Land Army on the British Home Front, 1942 Sylvia Smith sprays tomatoes in a greenhouse as part of her training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. A shortha... More
Beekeeping in Britain during the Second World War TR2030
Beekeeping in Britain during the Second World War Two beekeepers with a beehive containing two brood chambers and three honey chambers.
Belgians Train in England- Parachute Training at Ringway, Cheshire, 19...
Belgians Train in England- Parachute Training at Ringway, Cheshire, 1942 Belgian paratroops exercise as part of their parachute training at Ringway. Here, trainees act as a substitute vaulting horse for their ... More
Berlin-Siemensstadt, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 CL3196
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Siemens factory at Siemensstadt, Berlin, badly damaged as a result of raids by aircraft of Bomber Command.
Billets in a Shelled Village across the Volturno River, Italy 1943 Art...
Billets in a Shelled Village across the Volturno River, Italy 1943 image: a soldier sits on a chair staring into a smoking fire outside a ruined house hung with a long washing line. There are two other men nea... More
Birth of a British Tank- Tank Production in England, 1941 D4483
Birth of a British Tank- Tank Production in England, 1941 A factory worker produces gears for the gear box of a Crusader tank at this factory, somewhere in England, 1941.
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair ...
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair Teams, London, England, UK, 1944 Women of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) hard at work preparing breakfast for the men of the 'Blitz Rep... More
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Barrage Balloon Construction HU36241
Britain's Home Front 1939 - 1945- Barrage Balloon Construction Looking down on the factory floor at the Dunlop Balloon Factory, Manchester, where barrage balloons are being constructed.
Britain's Youth Prepares- Girls Create Allotments on Bomb Site, London...
Britain's Youth Prepares- Girls Create Allotments on Bomb Site, London, England, 1942 Members of the Girls Training Corps dig over the ground in preparation for the creation of an allotment in what was once the... More
British Generals 1939-1945 NA23235
British Generals 1939-1945 Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Nye (1895 - 1967): Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff with Generals Freyberg (left) and McCreery (right) at Forli airfield, Italy during a ... More
British Prisoners of War in Poland, 1940-1945 HU9302
British Prisoners of War in Poland, 1940-1945 A rugby match in progress at the Stalag XXID, Poznań (Posen).
British Railways at War - Troopship- Transport and Travel in Wartime, ...
British Railways at War - Troopship- Transport and Travel in Wartime, UK, 1944 Servicemen queue at a railway station, probably at Stranraer Harbour, Scotland, as they wait to board the ship which will carry the... More
British Reoccupation of Singapore, 1945 IND4826
British Reoccupation of Singapore, 1945 Japanese prisoners of war are taken to work at the double in Singapore where they were made to clear up the city.
British Soldiers on Leave in Letino, Italy, 6 May 1944, TR1771
British Soldiers on Leave in Letino, Italy, 6 May 1944, British soldiers on leave in the small village of Letino on the top of a mountain nearly a mile above sea level. Driver Raymond Peach from Whichford Banbu... More
British troops lined up at Gourock in Scotland before embarking for No...
British troops lined up at Gourock in Scotland before embarking for Norway, 20 April 1940. Troops lined up at Gourock waiting to embark for Norway, 20 April 1940.
Celone - Handley Page Halifax - Royal Air Force- Italy, 1942-1945. CNA...
Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South East Europe, 1942-1945. Leading Aircraftman R Stuart of Birkenhead retrieves tools from a flooded equipment chest following heavy rain at Celone, Italy. In the bac... More
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century- the Second World War H25570
Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century- the Second World War A series of photographs taken specially for WS9 on the method of storing and stacking ammunition in the field. Photographs taken at Shefford (27 A... More
Commonwealth Air Aces of the Second World War CH3757
Commonwealth Air Aces of the Second World War Flight Lieutenant Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane DFC, an Irishman who flew with the Royal Air Force, seated in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire at RAF Kenley while... More
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 F...
Convoys To Russia during the Second World War - Convoy Ra64, 17 - 28 February 1945 A merchant ship in convoy RA64 sails through heavy seas in the Arctic Ocean.
D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 B50...
D-day - British Forces during the Invasion of Normandy 6 June 1944 British troops pose for a photograph with a French woman in La Brèche d'Hermanville, 6 June 1944.
Displaced Persons and Refugees in Germany BU6643
Displaced Persons and Refugees in Germany The Displaced Persons camp within the grounds of Hamburg Zoo was build by the Blohm & Voss company during WWII to house the forced labourers that worked in their factor... More
Dominion and Empire Forces in the United Kingdom, 1939-1945 H1830
Dominion and Empire Forces in the United Kingdom, 1939-1945 Men of the 28th (Maori) Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, after disembarking at Gourock in Scotland, 17 June 1940.
Dummy Vehicles and Equipment USED For Deception during the Second Worl...
Dummy Vehicles and Equipment USED For Deception during the Second World War Dummy DUKW of rigid construction.
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 HU104614
Dunkirk and the Retreat From France 1940 A woman from the Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC) hands out tea to troops evacuated from Dunkirk at a railway station in the UK, 31 May 1940.
Flight Lieutenant P S Turner of No. 242 Squadron RAF, rests on the tai...
Flight Lieutenant P S Turner of No. 242 Squadron RAF, rests on the tail elevator of his Hawker Hurricane Mk I, after landing at Fowlmere, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, September 1940. Flying Officer Leoanard ... More
George Albert FL13441 - A black and white photo of a boat in the water
George Albert At anchor. a Great Yarmouth drifter, registration 627 Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Germany Under Allied Occupation BU7352
Germany Under Allied Occupation At a camp for German political prisoners at Isenbruck barracks near Hamburg the detainees take their daily exercise.
Germany Under Allied Occupation BU8570
Germany Under Allied Occupation Sergeant R S Baker of the Army Film & Photographic Unit (AFPU) and a soldier of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) receive bread sprinkled with salt from a young Russian soldier... More
Group of Officers of the Cypher Staff. January 1943, on Board HMS Bulo...
Group of Officers of the Cypher Staff. January 1943, on Board HMS Bulolo.
Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 D2345
Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 A casualty is carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance at Guy's Hospital in London. The ambulance "was presented to American Ambulance Great Britai... More
Handley Page Harrow - Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. CH...
Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. Interior of Handley Page Harrow Transport (Sparrow) ambulance aircraft, K6984 BJ-E, of No. 271 Squadron RAF Detachment at Hendon, Middlesex, showing stretchers ... More
Hmas Bathurst FL1572. Warship photograph collection
Hmas Bathurst Underway on trials. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Adamant FL148. Warship photograph collection
HMS Adamant Underway, coastal waters. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS ARDENT, 1930. FL871, British navy ship
HMS ARDENT, 1930. At a buoy on completion. Pennant No H41
HMS Badsworth FL1336. Warship photograph collection
HMS Badsworth Under tow on the Mersey. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Balsam FL1349. Warship photograph collection
HMS Balsam Underway, coastal waters. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Blankney FL2355. Warship photograph collection
HMS Blankney Underway. L.30. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Bownet FL2724. Warship photograph collection
HMS Bownet Secured to a buoy. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Brilliant FL2908. Warship photograph collection
HMS Brilliant At anchor at Spithead. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Cairo FL5349. Warship photograph collection
HMS Cairo Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Canterbury FL7489, British navy ship
IWM caption: HMS Canterbury underway, at sea. Comment : this is not the cruiser HMS Canterbury (it only has one funnel, superstructure is wrong, far too small. Looks like a converted merchant ship. Comment : H... More
HMS Caradoc FL7498, British Navy ship
HMS Caradoc Fitting out at Scotts, Greenock Yard. Submarine G.14 in the foreground.
HMS Catriona FL7660. Warship photograph collection
HMS Catriona Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Chameleon FL7848. Warship photograph collection
HMS Chameleon Underway in Belfast Lough. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Circassia FL8122 - Public domain image of a steam boat
HMS Circassia At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Circe FL4001. Warship photograph collection
HMS Circe Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Empire Ocean FL12571
HMS Empire Ocean Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Empire Rest FL9352, World War II photo
HMS Empire Rest Underway Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Formidable FL6345. Warship photograph collection
HMS Formidable At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Grimsby Town FL13661, British Navy ship
HMS Grimsby Town Stationary, coastal waters. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Highway FL22905. Warship photograph collection
HMS Highway At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Hurworth FL10027. Warship photograph collection
HMS Hurworth Underway Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Koningen Emma FL14445
HMS Koningen Emma Docked. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Lamerton FL12015. Warship photograph collection
HMS Lamerton Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Lavender FL4525. Warship photograph collection
Flower-class corvette HMS Lavender (K60) at anchor Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Llanstephan Castle FL14688, British navy ship
HMS Llanstephan Castle Underway, coastal waters. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Loch Craggie FL6039, British navy ship
HMS Loch Craggie At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Loyal FL1375. Warship photograph collection
HMS Loyal At a buoy in the Clyde. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Medway Queen FL15150 - Public domain image of a steam boat
HMS Medway Queen Sailing past the entry to a harbour whilst in civilian service.
HMS Nordland FL16828. Warship photograph collection
HMS Nordland At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Relentless FL1968. Warship photograph collection
HMS Relentless At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Rose FL5745. Warship photograph collection
HMS Rose Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Seaham FL18857. Warship photograph collection
HMS Seaham At a buoy. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Searcher FL18881. Warship photograph collection
HMS Searcher At a buoy. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS South Down FL19190, British navy ship
Hunt class destroyer HMS Southdown at a buoy. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Sussex FL5880. Warship photograph collection
HMS Sussex At anchor in the Clyde. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Tyne FL20341. Warship photograph collection
HMS Tyne Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Verity FL20964. Warship photograph collection
HMS Verity At anchor. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Vienna FL21058. Warship photograph collection
HMS Vienna Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMS Weston FL21575. Warship photograph collection
HMS Weston Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
HMSM Sleuth FL3735 - A black and white photo of a submarine in the wat...
HMSM Sleuth Underway on the Mersey. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hmt Cape Melville FL7494, World War II photo
Hmt Cape Melville Underway. Public domain photograph related to World War Two, Navy ships, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hmt Sir Gareth FL19086, British Navy ship
Hmt Sir Gareth Underway. Public domain image of a British navy ship during World War Two, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hrh Prince Umberto of Italy, May 1944 TR1836
Hrh Prince Umberto of Italy, May 1944 HRH Prince Umberto during his visit to the troops during his visit to the Italian Corps of Liberation, Sparanise and Polipo, Naples, Italy.
In May 1941, Gross was commissioned again as an Official War Artist an...
In May 1941, Gross was commissioned again as an Official War Artist and visited Dover Castle for ten days. This boxing competition was fought at Breakwater between Knuckle and Breakwater Batteries. image: A bo... More
Infantry tank Mk IV - Churchill Mk VII KID902
Infantry tank Mk IV - Churchill Mk VII Infantry tank Mk IV Churchill VII
Interior Studies on Board a Frigate. 5 July 1943, on Board the River C...
Interior Studies on Board a Frigate. 5 July 1943, on Board the River Class Frigate, HMS Mourne, at Liverpool. The Commanding Officer of HMS MOURNE, Lieut Cdr R S Holland, RNR, in his cabin.
ITA-AMG-VG 1945 MiNrTR07 mt B002
Stamp of Italy (Allied Military Government for Venetia Giulia); 1945; definitive stamp of the series "Imperiale" without fascios but with watermark and with two-lines black overprint "A.M.G. / V.G." (Allied Occ... More
Italian Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at An Italian POW C...
Italian Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at An Italian Pow Camp, England, UK, 1945 From a BBC studio, Italian Prisoners of War Maestro Aldo Morbio and Guido Leoni take part in the weekly broadcast 'Th... More
IWM-H-18233-Flame-thrower-on-Universal-Carrier
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Close-up of a flamethrower mounted on a Universal carrier, seen at a demonstration of flame weapons in Scotland, March 1942.
Join the Australian Army Medical Women's Service Art.IWMPST16600
Join the Australian Army Medical Women's Service whole: the main image is positioned in the right quarter, with a smaller image placed in the bottom left corner. The title is separate and located in the left th... More
Lct (3) 7037 FL7115, World War II photo
Lct (3) 7037 Underway on the Humber. Public domain photograph related to Nazi Germany, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Major-general R F E Whittaker, Cb, Obe, Td, Aa Command, 1942 Art.IWMAR...
Major-general R F E Whittaker, Cb, Obe, Td, Aa Command, 1942 image: a half-length portrait of Major-General R F E Whittaker in uniform, shown sitting at a table with a cigarette in his right hand.
Marines Man "island Forts" To Protect Britain's East Coast Shipping. 2...
Marines Man "island Forts" To Protect Britain's East Coast Shipping. 2 September 1943, in the North Sea. Island Forts Protect East Coast Shipping From Low Flying Enemy Aircraft. These Forts Are Commissioned As ... More
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service sampling the Christmas pudd...
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service sampling the Christmas pudding at Greenock in Scotland, 19 December 1942. Wrens sampling the Christmas pudding at Greenock, Scotland.
Midget Submarine - Excelsior Art.IWMARTLD4066
Midget Submarine - Excelsior image: the Excelsior is moored at a small wooden jetty on the right, flying the white ensign, while a depot ship is on the left. There are seagulls flying overhead and three of the ... More