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London man with Indian navy in the far east. Lieutenant W.G. Barton Rinvr., of Wembley London, with a Japanese sword taken when his assault landing craft captured a boatlond of the enemy fleeting from Ramree Island. NI 9280

German city in the wake of war. The graceful spire of the Aachen Cathedral, undamaged by war, is surrounded by rubble and blasted buildings. The fleets of U.S. fighterbombers which hammered the stubborn Nazi garrison kept their bombs carefully away from the ancient church, rebuilt in the 10th Centruy after the Norman invasion.

Allied military leaders in France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (left), leans on the rail of an amphibious duck with Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet, on beachhead in Northern France. They discussed operations on the French front during a tour of the beachhead with other Allied leaders.

Food carried to Paris in U.S. trucks driving by French. French volunteer drivers march in review after receiving an 18-day training course from American soldiers before operating fleets of U.S. trucks hauling food from the beachheads of France to Paris. The trucks were sent from England to France under lend-lease.

Germans take possession of Memel. Hitler pays triumphal visit. The landing part of German sailors from the fleet which escorted Hitler marching through the crowd-lined streets of Memel. This was the first time that German naval forces had taken part in an occupation of ceded territoriy.

Casualties arrive at a British field hospital. Abyssinians wounded in the fighting on the southern front arriving on stretchers at a British Red Cross field hospital near Harar. A fleet of motor ambulances is kept busy patrolling the battle zone for casualties. The doctors of the British Red Cross stations are assisted by natives from Kenya, British Somaliland and other British territories.

Mediterranean Patrol. A fine study of naval activity at Gibraltar. As a destroyer leaves on duty in the non-intervention patrol. In background are warships of the Mediterranean fleet at Anchor, and, dominating all, the Rock.

Workers in India assemble a U.S.-built plane. Indian laborers prepare to lift a wing of a U.S.-built Avenger torpedo bomber being assembled at a base of the British Fleet Air Arm in Ceylon, in the Indian Ocean off India. A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier recently visited the base to participate in combined operations against Japanese bases in the Netherlands East Indies.

The Navy lets off steam! Billowing clouds of steam rising from H.M. Aircraft-carrier Courageousas she leaves Malta Harbour to take part in the British Fleet manoeuvres in the South Atlantic.

The guardian. Symbolical of the Navy itself, an officer aboard H.M.S. Rodney keeps watch and ward during the Home Fleet manoeuvres off the Atlantic coast.

The liberation of France. History of the War. While the Germans were reeling under heavy Allied attacks in northern France, they were caught in the south by another blow when United Nations troops landed on Augstus 15, 1944, on a broad front between Marseille and Nice. These paratroppers were brought by C-47 carrier planes to dropping zones over the new beachhead ... were followd by waves of ground ...

Foto van negen Britse militairen met eendeplanken (duckboards). Westfront, Eerste Wereldoorlog. Tekst: 'Aan het Britsche Westelijke front in Frankrijk. Het vervoer van eendeplanken naar de eerste linien'. Stempel achterop: 'Official photograph issued by press bureau' en 'Alfieri picture service, 12, 13 & 14 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E.C. '.