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1st Armoured Division on exercise.jpg 300 × 357; 20 KB
4-inch gun mounted on lorry at Littlestone-on-Sea 29-07-1940 IWM H 2570.jpg 800 × 598; 66 KB
428 Battery 8 inch gun firing WWII IWM TR 559.jpg 800 × 740; 51 KB
428 Battery 8 inch shell handling WWII IWM TR 568.jpg 730 × 800; 62 KB
428 Battery crew handling 8-inch gun propellant charges WWII IWM TR 571.jpg 775 × 800; 72 KB
428 Battery setting 8 inch shell fuzes WWII IWM TR 564.jpg 758 × 800; 53 KB
428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, December 1942 TR562.jpg 758 × 800; 52 KB
428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, December 1942 TR563.jpg 764 × 800; 49 KB
428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, December 1942 TR566.jpg 773 × 800; 38 KB
428 Battery, Coastal Defence Artillery Headquarters, Dover, Kent, December 1942 TR569.jpg 774 × 800; 59 KB
6thBerkshiresbarricadetraining.jpg 800 × 783; 99 KB
A kite balloon tethered to the balloon barge NORMAN WADE on the River Humber, at No. 17 Balloon Centre at Sutton-on-Hull in Yorkshire, January 1943. CH8663.jpg 2,159 × 1,772; 927 KB
A symbolic photograph of British soldier standing guard on a beach in southern England, 7 October 1940. H4610.jpg 2,306 × 1,772; 1.12 MB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D851.jpg 800 × 526; 48 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D856.jpg 530 × 800; 42 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D862.jpg 533 × 800; 52 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D863.jpg 800 × 589; 61 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D868.jpg 601 × 800; 60 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D872.jpg 590 × 800; 50 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D874.jpg 800 × 572; 42 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D876.jpg 800 × 576; 44 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D882.jpg 608 × 799; 65 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D887.jpg 600 × 800; 82 KB
A Visit To An Anti-aircraft Ship, England, 1940 D888.jpg 800 × 602; 45 KB
Air Defence is Home Defence Art.IWMPST14624.jpg 2,471 × 3,724; 2.8 MB
Allied Forces in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H5493.jpg 800 × 800; 91 KB
An Anti-Aircraft Control Spotter at his observation post on board an anti-aircraft ship in 1940. D878.jpg 1,772 × 2,370; 721 KB
An ARP Warden wearing a gas mask tidies the hose of his stirrup pump at an ARP post in Britain during the Second World War. D3892.jpg 1,635 × 2,480; 716 KB
Auxiliary Fireman Bernard Hailstone attaches a hose to a fire hydrant, somewhere in London, c 1940 - D2651.jpg 1,636 × 2,480; 855 KB
Barrage ballons.jpg 550 × 501; 80 KB
Barrage balloons over London during World War II.jpg 1,212 × 754; 382 KB
4 inch Mk IX coast defence gun and crew 1940 IWM H 2692.jpg 800 × 591; 79 KB
6 inch coast defence gun and crew Sheerness November 1939 IWM H 121.jpg 800 × 604; 56 KB
6-ich gun Felixstowe 1939 IWM H 707.jpg 800 × 601; 43 KB
Horse Sand Fort gun 24-08-1940 IWM H 4618.jpg 800 × 610; 41 KB
9.2 inch gun and crew at Needles New Battery 07-08-1941 IWM H 12512.jpg 800 × 604; 59 KB
9.2inchHowitzerHastingsMay1940.jpg 800 × 600; 110 KB
9.2inchHowitzerMkIIAndChurchill7August1940.jpg 800 × 607; 91 KB
9.2inchHowitzerMkIIHastingsMay1940-2.jpg 800 × 602; 102 KB
12inchHowitzerNewfoundlanders1942.jpg 769 × 800; 118 KB
12inchRailwayHowitzerMkIII26February1941.jpg 800 × 653; 107 KB
12inchRailwayHowitzersMkVCatterick12December1940.jpg 800 × 576; 64 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H6123.jpg 800 × 576; 81 KB
Pooh 14 inch gun St Margaret 1941 IWM H 7922.jpg 800 × 598; 81 KB
Winnie 14 inch gun St Margaret March 1941 IWM H 7918.jpg 800 × 602; 73 KB
15 inch gun Wanstone Battery 18-05-1942 IWM H 19835.jpg 800 × 607; 48 KB
Wanstone Battery 15 inch gun 18-05-1942 IWM H 19833.jpg 800 × 792; 65 KB
BL 18 inch Howitzer Halwill Junction WWII.jpg 2,154 × 1,528; 341 KB
BL 18 inch Howitzer Ashbury Station WWII.jpg 2,319 × 1,483; 338 KB
BocheBusterCatterick12December1940.jpg 800 × 604; 57 KB
BocheBusterFrontOutsideBourneParkTunnel21March1941.jpg 1,300 × 1,284; 398 KB
BocheBusterShellHoistCatterick12December1940.jpg 800 × 606; 69 KB
BocheBusterFiring7May1941.jpg 800 × 800; 73 KB
British beach defence 1940.jpg 800 × 615; 85 KB
C.R.W. Nevinson - Anti-aircraft Defences, 1940 - Art.IWMARTLD14.jpg 565 × 753; 305 KB
Castle Hill, WW2 AA Battery (RLH).JPG 1,552 × 658; 355 KB
Christchurch Anti-Tank Island.JPG 3,264 × 2,448; 2.64 MB
Coast Artillery School - remains - geograph.org.uk - 122370.jpg 640 × 480; 46 KB
Coastal artillery operations.jpg 768 × 1,024; 231 KB
Coastal Defence 1939 - 1945 H12525.jpg 1,741 × 2,244; 1.16 MB
CRE1113 Burnham on Crouch.jpg 1,024 × 768; 521 KB
Crews rush to their 3.7-inch guns, 127th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Southwold, Suffolk, 9 October 1944. H40434.jpg 1,776 × 1,772; 916 KB
Cruisers Mk 5.JPG 1,582 × 982; 451 KB
Essex Lozenge front section.jpg 1,024 × 768; 443 KB
Fordson Sussex Royal Air Force barrage balloon winch, right rear 3-4 view, Imperial War Museum Duxford.jpg 1,632 × 1,224; 1.2 MB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23086.jpg 795 × 800; 79 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23087.jpg 800 × 799; 83 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23088.jpg 800 × 798; 92 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23089.jpg 800 × 795; 83 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23090.jpg 800 × 799; 94 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23092.jpg 799 × 800; 87 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23093.jpg 800 × 799; 85 KB
Guarding the Fortress of Britain at a Coastal Battery H23096.jpg 799 × 800; 80 KB
Gun Drill on the Cliffs Art.IWMARTLD5970.jpg 800 × 542; 67 KB
In May 1941, Gross was commissioned again as an Official War Artist and visited Dover Castle for ten days. The South Coast was heavily defended with two guns named 'Winnie' and 'Pooh' at Dover hidden under camouflage an Art.IWMARTLD1103.jpg 800 × 496; 65 KB
In May 1941, Gross was commissioned again as an Official War Artist and visited Dover Castle for ten days. The South Coast was heavily defended with two guns named 'Winnie' and 'Pooh' at Dover hidden under camouflage an Art.IWMARTLD1110.jpg 800 × 584; 103 KB
INF3-21 Coastal battery scene Artist Terence Cuneo 1939-1946.jpg 3,585 × 4,500; 5.76 MB
INF3-30 Tower Bridge Artist Eve Kirk 1939-1946.jpg 3,423 × 4,538; 3 MB
Invasion Defences in the United Kingdom H1946.jpg 800 × 602; 96 KB
IWM-H-10928-Ballykinlar-19410619.jpg 800 × 794; 92 KB
IWM-H-17550-Covenanter-19420303.jpg 800 × 799; 72 KB
IWM-H-7331-Beaverette-Scotland-19410214.jpg 800 × 595; 103 KB
Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions Art.IWMPST14618.jpg 480 × 726; 52 KB
Men's Underground Quarters Art.IWMARTLD1093.jpg 800 × 498; 90 KB
Minewatchers' Post (view of interior) - geograph.org.uk - 1493373.jpg 640 × 480; 105 KB
Minewatchers' Post - geograph.org.uk - 1481085.jpg 640 × 398; 92 KB
Minewatchers' Post - geograph.org.uk - 1493370.jpg 640 × 480; 105 KB
Minewatchers' Post - geograph.org.uk - 1493378.jpg 640 × 480; 100 KB
Morris C8s w 25pdr guns.jpg 614 × 356; 102 KB
NewForestIbsleyww2.jpg 640 × 480; 148 KB
Observation Post with Gulls- 'solomon' and 'sheba' Art.IWMARTLD1218.jpg 3,525 × 2,299; 2.71 MB
Old wartime blockhouse at the landward end of the breakwater - geograph.org.uk - 876958.jpg 640 × 452; 62 KB
Patrol-training in a Peaceful Village, 1941 Art.IWMARTLD5757.jpg 597 × 800; 143 KB
Petroleum Weapons Against Invasion- a Demonstration of Anti-invasion Defences, UK, 1945 D24852.jpg 800 × 619; 67 KB
Petroleum Weapons Against Invasion- a Demonstration of Anti-invasion Defences, UK, 1945 D24854.jpg 800 × 621; 72 KB
PevenseyWWIIgunC.jpg 1,024 × 661; 235 KB
Polish troops in armoured train UK 1941 IWM H 7034.jpg 599 × 800; 74 KB
Practice Camp - mixed Battery, Ra Art.IWMARTLD1418.jpg 800 × 568; 62 KB
3inch20cwtAAgunFrontViewHayesCommonMay1940.jpg 800 × 595; 69 KB
3inch20cwtAAgunHayesCommonMay1940.jpg 604 × 799; 62 KB
3inch20cwtAAgunsideviewHayesCommonMay1940.jpg 800 × 599; 59 KB
QF 4 inch Mk IV coast defence gun 25-07-1940 IWM H 2536.jpg 800 × 612; 55 KB
4.5 inch AA gun and crew 16-04-1941 IWM H 8917.jpg 800 × 785; 71 KB
4.5 inch AA gun and crew London 20-08-1940 IWM H 3195.jpg 2,353 × 1,748; 700 KB
4.5 inch AA gun Kent 1941.jpg 605 × 800; 74 KB
4.5 inch AA gun rangefinder 1939.jpg 800 × 603; 57 KB
4.5inchHowitzerCamouflaged16July1940.jpg 800 × 590; 112 KB
Radiolocation Art.IWMPST2843.jpg 477 × 719; 139 KB
RAF Barrage Balloon Winch.jpg 2,758 × 2,714; 1.26 MB
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch armoured train cropped.jpg 342 × 273; 59 KB
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch armoured train.jpg 800 × 605; 72 KB
Royal Air Force Balloon Command, 1939-1945. C726.jpg 617 × 800; 41 KB
Royal Air Force Balloon Command, 1939-1945. CH11026.jpg 800 × 674; 87 KB
Royal Air Force Balloon Command, 1939-1945. CH11033.jpg 800 × 671; 83 KB
Royal Air Force Balloon Command, 1939-1945. CH13212.jpg 800 × 636; 66 KB
Royal Artillery 9.2-inch coastal defence guns at Felixstowe, 1939. H736.jpg 2,480 × 1,727; 1.13 MB
Saxmundham armoured train 1940.jpg 800 × 608; 64 KB
Secret of Britain's Anti-invasion Defences Revealed- Oil Defences, UK, 1944 D22931.jpg 2,449 × 1,772; 949 KB
Secret of Britain's Anti-invasion Defences Revealed- Oil Defences, UK, 1944 D22933.jpg 2,358 × 1,772; 935 KB
Secret of Britain's Anti-invasion Defences Revealed- Oil Defences, UK, 1944 D22940.jpg 800 × 594; 46 KB
Shell handling at Needles New Battery 07-08-1941 IWM H 12525.jpg 620 × 800; 59 KB
Shell room Culver Batter 24-08-1940 IWM H 3246.jpg 800 × 576; 66 KB
Snap into it - Men 18-19 1-2 - Home Defence Art.IWMPST14599.jpg 458 × 726; 46 KB
Standard Beaverette - Duxford.jpg 2,000 × 1,687; 1.36 MB
Suffolk Square style pillbox at Benacre (Geograph 2139289).jpg 640 × 480; 233 KB
The Alarm Art.IWMARTLD337.jpg 800 × 607; 87 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR453.jpg 784 × 800; 51 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR454.jpg 1,772 × 1,811; 932 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR456.jpg 763 × 800; 48 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR457.jpg 757 × 800; 59 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR459.jpg 777 × 800; 74 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR463.jpg 800 × 778; 37 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR465.jpg 762 × 800; 45 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR466.jpg 777 × 800; 52 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR467.jpg 776 × 800; 71 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR468.jpg 783 × 799; 68 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR469.jpg 783 × 800; 66 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR470.jpg 800 × 593; 28 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR474.jpg 800 × 588; 53 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR475.jpg 800 × 584; 45 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR476.jpg 800 × 586; 45 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR478.jpg 800 × 590; 23 KB
The Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Anti-aircraft Gun Site in Britain, December 1942 TR480.jpg 800 × 591; 45 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H119.jpg 800 × 598; 62 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H12517.jpg 800 × 778; 61 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H12518.jpg 800 × 798; 58 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H3293.jpg 800 × 590; 56 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-1945 H5518.jpg 800 × 584; 76 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H1460.jpg 800 × 600; 131 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H1468.jpg 800 × 603; 123 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H189.jpg 800 × 602; 49 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H2838.jpg 800 × 607; 109 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H3234.jpg 800 × 602; 47 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H3246.jpg 800 × 576; 81 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H3522.jpg 800 × 617; 46 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H40431.jpg 1,774 × 1,772; 951 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H6089.jpg 800 × 605; 72 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H6091.jpg 800 × 606; 84 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H698.jpg 800 × 604; 51 KB
The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H707.jpg 800 × 601; 55 KB
The Gun (1940) (Art.IWM ART LD 391).jpg 800 × 514; 71 KB
The Operations Room at RAF Fighter Command's No. 10 Group Headquarters, Rudloe Manor (RAF Box), Wiltshire, showing WAAF plotters and duty officers at work, 1943. CH11887.jpg 1,772 × 2,150; 1 MB
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A23869.jpg 800 × 590; 85 KB
The work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at a Mixed Anti-aircraft Battery, England, UK, 1942 D8287.jpg 800 × 636; 54 KB
The work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at a Mixed Anti-aircraft Battery, England, UK, 1942 D8292.jpg 1,748 × 1,844; 928 KB
The work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at a Mixed Anti-aircraft Battery, England, UK, 1942 D8330.jpg 800 × 635; 76 KB
Top of the Smugglers Path at White Nothe - geograph.org.uk - 266751.jpg 640 × 480; 109 KB
Twin 5.25 inch AA guns Primrose Hill 1943 IWM H 032322.jpg 800 × 795; 53 KB
Two-storey lookout post on top of White Nothe - geograph.org.uk - 266745.jpg 480 × 640; 93 KB
US Forces in Northern Ireland during WW2 (retouched).jpg 1,080 × 808; 385 KB
Valentine and Matilda tanks.jpg 587 × 389; 74 KB
Wartime in the Scillies- Everyday Life on the Scilly Isles, 1941 D3274.jpg 800 × 780; 73 KB
Wartime in the Scillies- Everyday Life on the Scilly Isles, 1941 D3280.jpg 800 × 779; 82 KB
Wartime observation post on Pembrokeshire coast - geograph.org.uk - 212941.jpg 640 × 480; 89 KB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR464.jpg 3,947 × 4,011; 4.08 MB
Women at War 1939 - 1945 TR471.jpg 780 × 800; 48 KB
World War II Coastal Defence Pillbox - geograph.org.uk - 1416473.jpg 640 × 480; 55 KB
WWII building near Comber - geograph.org.uk - 1129333.jpg 638 × 433; 94 KB
WWII defence post - geograph.org.uk - 652145.jpg 640 × 480; 84 KB
Worsley - Anti-Aircraft Operations Room(AAOR) - geograph.org.uk - 183618.jpg 640 × 480; 126 KB

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