home guard

  1. Operation Sea-lion

    Operation Sea-lion

    Churchill during a visit to Yorkshire in July 1940 at a Home Guard road block (and under fire from small children)
  2. Operation Sea-lion

    Operation Sea-lion

    Men of the Local Defence Volunteers (the Home Guard before being renamed) practice shooting down an unfortunate RAF Anson
  3. Operation Sea-lion

    Operation Sea-lion

    Local Defence Volunteers (as the Home Guard was originally called) on parade. Note that not all have even the LDV armband, far less any other equipment.
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