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| Winston Churchill with Stafford Cripps and Admiral John Tovey aboard HMS King George V, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 11 Oct 1942 | King George VI, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Queen Elizabeth, in London, England, United Kingdom, 23 Oct 1942 |
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| Covenanter tank entraining onto a warflat wagon, Britain, 7 Nov 1942 | King George VI of Great Britain visits the base of the USAAF 352nd Bomb Squadron at Chelveston, England, UK, 13 Nov 1942. The aircraft is B-17F “Holey Joe” with Cpl David C Casteel of Illinois standing second from the left |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom (center) on a tour of RAF Thurleigh in Bedfordshire, England, 13 Nov 1942. He is hearing from USAAF Lt Robert Riordan (left) about how his B-17 Fortress was damaged on a mission. | Staged photo of maintenance crews servicing a Liberator III of RAF No 224 Squadron at Beaulieu, Hampshire, United Kingdom, Dec 1942. |
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| Two submarines of US Navy Submarine Squadron 50 at Rosneath, Scotland, United Kingdom, circa 7 Dec 1942; sub possibilities were USS Barb, USS Blackfish, USS Herring, USS Shad, USS Gunnel, and USS Gurnard | A WAAF corporal checking a delivery of 20mm Hispano cannon shells before being loaded onto a Beaufighter Mark VI aircraft of No. 96 Squadron RAF at RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943-1945 |
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| A WAAF driver turning the starting handle of a Standard 5-cwt van, Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1940s | A WAAF flight officer examining an aerial photograph with two Canadian photographic reconnaissance pilots, Benson, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943 |
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| A WAAF leading aircraftwoman driver at the wheel of a Fordson 15-cwt van at Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s | A WAAF member transposing a plain language message into perforated morse tape while the other threaded the tape into a high-speed transmitter, Headquarters No. 60 (Signals) Group, RAF Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown |
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| A WAAF officer, acompanied by a flight sergeant, inspecting a squad of WAAF Policewomen, RAF Police School at RAF Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, 1940s | A WAAF orderly dispatching messages by Lamson tube, 1940s |
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| A WAAF storewoman checking parts in the spares section at No. 16 Maintenance Unit, RAF Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, date unknown | Acting Superintendent Mrs. Bolton of Women's Voluntary Service's Services Club at Chester House speaking to members of ATS and WAAF, Clarendon Place, Paddington, London, England, 1943 |
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| An intercept sheet of German radio transmission created for the cryptologists at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 1940s | Barrage balloon at the US military Springtown Camp in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 1943 |
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| Colossus code breaking computer, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, 1943 | Completed Bren guns at Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield, London, England, United Kingdom, date unknown |
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