year 1940

  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

    Signposts being removed to confuse any invading unit which had forgotten to bring a road map
  4. 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.
  5. Operation Sea-lion

    Operation Sea-lion

    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill poses with a borrowed Tommy gun, July 1940
  6. KM Blucher

    KM Blucher

  7. The Art of Roy Cross

    The Art of Roy Cross

    Hurricane of 238 Squadron, September 1940
  8. the Home Front

    the Home Front

  9. HMS Reading, Plymouth 1940

    HMS Reading, Plymouth 1940

  10. Panzer 38(t) in France

    Panzer 38(t) in France

  11. Mine

    Mine

    A parachute mine destroyed Waterloo dock warehouse in Liverpool 20-21 December 1940
  12. HMS Howe

    HMS Howe

    1940 HMS HOWE, one of the five King George V-class battle ships, all of which were put into construction for the Royal Navy in 1937, the year the Washington Treaty lapsed. THE KING GEORGE V CLASS These were the first new battleships to go into construction in the United Kingdom for 15...
  13. Formation of Savoia Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello's 1940

    Formation of Savoia Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello's 1940

    WWII - Italian Air Force
  14. WWII - Italian Airforce - Macchi MC.200 Saetta - 1940

    WWII - Italian Airforce - Macchi MC.200 Saetta - 1940

  15. Italian Airforce - Fiat CR32 1940

    Italian Airforce - Fiat CR32 1940

  16. Captured OT-26 flame-thrower tank

    Captured OT-26 flame-thrower tank

    A captured OT-26 flame-thrower tank has been evacuated for repair in Varkaus in spring 1940. Finnish Army photo.
  17. Denis Bice

    Denis Bice

    Draped over a tender at RAF Northolt in 1940.
  18. Gloster Gauntlet Mk II

    Gloster Gauntlet Mk II

    Finnish Air Force - Gloster Gauntlet Mk II in March 1940.
  19. Gloster Gladiator Mk II

    Gloster Gladiator Mk II

    Finnish Air Force - Gloster Gladiator Mk II (GL-264) after going over in too soft airfield at Mikkeli 21st May 1940.
  20. Hawker Hurricane Mk I

    Hawker Hurricane Mk I

    Finnish Air Force - Hawker Hurricane Mk I at Malmi airport on 6th April 1940.
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