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The King visits British troops in France. Piping the King ashore on his arrival in France to pay a short visit to the British troops. The King is seen coming down to the landing stage on the gangway, followed by Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British armies in France. Koning George VI.

Queen Marie's tragic farewell. Photo shows: Queen Marie, heavily veiled, coming down the gangway from the Jugoslavian warship after the coffin had been taken aboard at Marseilles yesterday. Queen Marie of Juguslavia bade a sad farewell as the body of her husband, King Alexander, was taken aboard the Jugo-slavi cruiser in which 24 hours earlier he had arrived on an official visit to France. Aleksander ...

'Training in the U.S. A large draft of the Canadian Army Pacific Force which recently left Kingston to train at US Army camps, will later rejoin the Sixth Canadian Infantry Division at Fort Breckinridge, Kentucky. Shown here, amongst some of the luggage that will accompany the troops, three officers talk about the coming adventure. Left to right: Lt. Wurker, King St. West, Ingersol, Ontario; Lt. F. ...

A group of irregulars racing into a position behind Wal Wal. The photographer who took this picture after a five days trek south of Harar says the Abyssinians rush into battle laughing and joking and take the keenest delight at the promise of coming to grips with the enemy.

Allies strangle supplies entering Leghorn. A ship lists to ine side after heavy bombers of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces carried out an attack on the port of Leghorn, Italy, later captured by U.S. troops. After Allied air attacks on rail lines had forced the Nazis to rely on Italian ports and motor transport, Allied bombers carrying out a coordinated plan, dried up the trickle of supplies coming ...

U.S. landing craft moored in English habor. U.S. landing creaft of many types, which will play an important role in the coming ground offensive against the Germans in Western Europe, are massed in an English harbor. In the foreground are LCV (landing craft-vehicle) vessels which can be run aground on sloping beaches to discharge their mobile cargees.

U.S. Thunderbolts ready for overseas voyage. A crane (left) hoists an American Thunderbolt fighter plane aboard a United Nations cargo vessel at a port in the Eastern U.S. Other Thunderbolts are lashed to scaffolding on the vesssel's forward deck to keep them secure during the voyage overseas. Great Quantities of American war supplies and equipment have already been massed in Great Britain for the ...

The Yanks in the ETO. Well, for once, luck was with us. In Antwerp, we found 500 barges, half of them filled with German goods; Antwerp's docks were intact and 85 per cent of the cranes were in good working order. With that to start on, we had things in shape pronto and our ships began coming in with supplies. They sure needed them up front.

Foto van startend of landend Amerikaans P-51 D Mustang jachtvliegtuig, code LH-D. Tekst achterop: 'Mustang 353 FG 'Arkansas Traveller II' coming in. Foto 'Mustang at war' blz 94. P-51 Mustang.

Commander-in-Chief of Japanese Navy. Vice-Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Navy, specially posed for this picture on his flagship Yamashiro, at Yokosuka Naval Station, Kanagawa Prefecture, when the Admiral took charge as the commander for the first time with the completion of the re-equipment works for the flagship. The Admiral has been taking the responsibility for the ...

'Coming in to land De Winter'. De Winter ligt net ten zuiden van Calgary, Canada. Foto gemaakt door Hugo Seelig, geboren te Bandoeng op 8 juli 1918. Hij wordt in 1939 gemobiliseerd en gelegerd te Rotterdam. Daar maakt hij het bombardement van mei 1940 mee. Hij weet op 21 maart 1941 Nederland te ontvluchten. Seelig bereikt het nog vrije Frankrijk en wordt ondergebracht in Kamp Gurs in de buurt van Perpignan. ...