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USA: Photograph of Women Working at a Bell System Telephone Switchboard during the Second World War. FASCINATING photos from the Second World War show...

FRANCE: British anti-aircraft guns engaging flying bombs on 29 August 1944 just as the Normandy campaign was coming to an end. AS THOUSANDS of brave s...

FRANCE: The very first Allied forces to land in Normandy arrived by six Horsa gliders. These were the men of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckin...

FRANCE: Good luck boyos: This Marauder is returning back over the invasion beaches having bombed its designated targets. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldier...

FRANCE: Hell Razers: The Norman town of Vire formed the junction between the US 1st Army and the British 2nd Army. During the American breakout it was...

FRANCE: The expression of these GIs says it all. They are clearly very pleased to see whatever is in the skies above them. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldi...

FRANCE: A formation of B-17Fs hitting the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany on 17 August 1943. This raid cost 60 bombers and 370 aircrew....

FRANCE: A German Tiger II tank and staff car caught in massive bomb craters. In the face of such attack there was nowhere to hide. AS THOUSANDS of bra...

FRANCE: Angel of Death: The cramped B-17 nose position. The gunner was offered little protection. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldiers stormed the Normandy...

FRANCE: This bombed-up Halifax was photographed in Italy. The Allied air forces also attacked Germany from captured Italian air bases. AS THOUSANDS of...

FRANCE: One of the Stirling???s main roles in support of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings was with the 2nd Tactical Air Force???s No. 38 Grou...

FRANCE: USAAF: Marauders bearing the Normandy invasion stripes pounding targets in France. Their bombs are falling through patchy cloud. AS THOUSANDS...

FRANCE: A B-24 known as ???Sandman??? photographed by the preceding bomber over the Astra Romana refinery. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldiers stormed the...

FRANCE: Bombs away! USAAF Douglas A-20G Havocs attacking a French locomotive marshalling yard. As part of Pointblank from 1 March to 6 June 1944 some...

FRANCE: Casualties of war: Caught on the open road, this staff car and its dead occupant once belonged to the 116th Panzer Division. AS THOUSANDS of b...

FRANCE: Boom: A B-17 of the US 8th Air Force bombing the Focke-Wulf fighter factory at Marienburg, Germany on 9 October 1943. The Americans suffered h...

FRANCE: This Douglas A-20J was fatally hit by flak over the Beauvoir V-1 site, France on 12 May 1944. The J and K variants were fitted with a frameles...

FRANCE: This Typhoon belonged to 486 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force. The unit started out with Hurricanes, then converted to Typhoons in 1942....

FRANCE: An American armourer loads the machine guns on a North American P-51B Mustang Fighter stationed in Italy. The aircraft was armed with six 0.5i...

FRANCE: Troops loading bombs into RAF aircraft before a raid on the enemy forces. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldiers stormed the Normandy Beaches under a...

FRANCE: A flight of fifteen Typhoons photographed over southern England. Such aircraft were used to attack Hitler???s radar and V-weapon sites in the...

FRANCE: The heroics of the air forces members are not as well remembered as the actions of the ground troops on D-Day. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldiers...

FRANCE: A-20s striking the German strongpoint at Pointe du Hoc on the Normandy coast in May 1944. The target is shrouded in clouds of smoke. Some of t...

FRANCE: Book Cover. AS THOUSANDS of brave soldiers stormed the Normandy Beaches under a hail of gunfire 75 years ago, incredible photos show how the A...

In a photo from the National Archives, Secretary of State John Hay signs the memorandum of ratification of the Treaty of Paris (1898) on behalf of the...

UK: Richard Marsh at an anti common market meeting in London, August 16, 1962. BLACK and white images showing Brits campaigning against joining the EU...

FILE -- Althea Gibson is greeted by neighborhood children as she arrives at her home in Harlem on July 9, 1957. Now, as some African-American women wi...

FILE -- Althea Gibson during her match with Darlene Hard, which she won to retain her USLTA National Championship in New York on Sept. 7, 1958. Now, a...

UK: Earl Sandwich at anti common market talks in London, UK, August 26, 1962. BLACK and white images showing Brits campaigning against joining the EU...

FILE -- Anna, left, and Daniel Gibson, right, pour milk for their daughter Althea, center, in their home on West 143rd Street in Harlem on July 9, 195...

FILE -- Former New York Mayor John Lindsay, left, is escorted by Black Panthers, who helped provide security, at the Harlem Cultural Festival in New Y...

FILE -- Attendees find shade at the Harlem Cultural Festival in New York, July 13, 1969. Over six weekends in the summer of 1969, the festival, which...

FILE -- Former New York Mayor John Lindsay with the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson outside her dressing room, during the Harlem Cultural Festival in Ne...