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Taking a tip from the Finns, British troops are wearing white clothing as an effective camouflage as the winter retains its hold on the Western front...

A contingent of Cypriot muleteers which landed in France have now taken up their duties with the British Expeditionary Force, with their mules they ar...

The Royal Indian Army Service Corps which have now taken their place as a working unit of the British Expeditionary Force, in France, on Feb. 16, 1940...

The Royal Indian Army Service Corps which have now taken their place as a working unit of the British Expeditionary Force, in France, on Feb. 16, 1940...

Britain's Secretary of State for War Oliver Stanley, centre, with Lord John Gort, left, are interested in a mule wearing a gas-mask during a visit to...

Alf M. Landon, left, 1936 Republican presidential nominee, discusses with John W. Gellerman on Feb. 12, 1940, a stamp cachet used for the first time w...

The French mud of 1918 which American Doughboys of the World War remember so well has given way to snow and ice this year as British Tommies move towa...

At French-Swiss frontier on Jan. 31, 1940, on right, French soldier, in center, a Swiss soldier and left, a Swiss customs man. (AP Photo)

Members of the Warwickshire Regiment manning the Trenches in the snow "somewhere" in France on Jan. 30, 1940. (AP Photo)

This quartet of British Tommies took up their positions in the snow on an advanced post of the Maginot line "somewhere in France" on Jan. 27, 1940. T...

The royal air force personnel in France are carrying on in spite of the severe weather at present making conditions doubly arduous. The "Grosvenor hou...

Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman is shown in New York, Jan. 20, 1940. (AP Photo)

Although the war in France still remains a stalemate as far as the B.E.F. is concerned, exercises are constantly taking place to keep the units up to...

British soldiers, engaged in snow clearing "somewhere in France" on Jan. 18, 1940, are taking time out to enjoy welcome refreshment. (AP Photo)

British soldiers, engaged in snow clearing "somewhere in France" on Jan. 18, 1940, are taking time out to enjoy welcome refreshment. (AP Photo)

An exercise by light tanks gave an official photographer the chance of obtaining these interesting photographs in France on Jan. 17, 1940. Tanks crew...

R.A.F. pilots walking to their aircraft through the snow in France on Jan. 13, 1940. The picture might be called "Christmas morning in war time," but...

Finnish troops reporting the capture of a Russian tank in the snow-covered forest on the Eastern front, Jan. 10, 1940. The Russians lost more than 300...

Leader of the Opposition in Britain's Parliament, Clement Attlee, inspecting defence work in one of the sectors of the British lines in France, on Jan...

Lord John Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, making the recording of his Christmas message for broadcasting in France, on De...

Lord John Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, making the recording of his Christmas message for broadcasting in France, on De...

Britain's Lieutenant General Sir John Dill inspecting soldiers at work digging trenches, somewhere in France, on Dec. 19, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's Lieutenant General Sir John Dill on a tour of inspection behind the British lines, somewhere in France, on Dec. 19, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who is making a tour of the British war zone in France on Dec. 18, 1939, is seen, second left, having an...

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who is now touring the British war zone in France, is seen inspecting a camouflaged gun emplacement on Dec...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, chatting to Lord John Gort, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, during the premie...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, centre, arrives at an airfield, somewhere in France, on Dec. 16, 1939, where he is greeted by Captain th...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, centre, arrives at an airfield, somewhere in France, on Dec. 16, 1939, where he is greeted by Captain th...

Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, with Captain the Earl of Munster, inspecting the French guard of honour on his arrival by air at an airf...

Britain's King George VI, left, in very happy mood, with French President Albert Lebrun,French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, and Lord John Gort, th...

Take away the barbed wire in foreground and few would suspect this "peaceful" scene as being the embattled border between France and Germany (backgrou...

Britain's King George VI leaving a trench in the forward area, during his visit to the British army, somewhere in France, on Dec. 7, 1939. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Britain's King George VI is piped onto the gangway as he prepares to leave the Royal Navy ship that transported him across the Channel to France to vi...

Lieutenant General Henry R. Pownall, the British Chief of the General Staff, seated, with his A.D.C., Captain E. U. Oyler, somewhere in France with th...

During his visit to the front, Britain's War Minister Hore Belisha visited a French section of the line, somewhere in France, on Nov. 23, 1939. The Wa...

The famous pushcart markets of Manhattan's lower East side-for generations the portable shopping centers for the teeming tenement district-have been d...

The crew of the French liner De Grasse has target practice at sea with one of the 75-millimetre guns with which she's manned for her transatlantic voy...

An interval for lunch during the tour of the British front by Britain's Minister For War Leslie Hore Belisha, on Nov. 20, 1939. From left to right are...

Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, front left, at the British general headquarters, in France, on Nov. 10, 1939. Commander-in-C...

Air minister Sir Kingsley Wood has just completed a tour of the Royal Air force bases in France. He is the first British defense minister to visit the...

A unit of Bren gun carriers stretching down a typically long, straight French road on its way to the advanced lines of the British front in France on...

It has been announced that 30,000 British troops are now holding the line in the western front alongside their French comrades. And still the old hors...

Under the presidency of General Gouraud, war hero and former military Governor of Paris, the Franco-American Lafayette Committee to which belong a num...

Under the leadership of Mrs. Alan Arragon a body of volunteer nurses, mostly French and American society women, is preparing to render service at the...

A French observer trains his field glasses down the 300 yard straightaway of the Iron bridge in France on Oct. 11, 1939 which connects Strasbourg, on...

The famous iron bridge at Strasbourg, with Kehl three hundred yards away on the German side on Oct. 6, 1939. French and German troops watch each other...

With dawn just breaking, this aerial picture was made of British bombers taking part in bombing exercises over eastern France on Oct. 2, 1939. They ar...

With newspapermen pressing close to him Alf M. Landon, republican presidential nominee in 1936, in Washington to a attend President Roosevelt's neutra...