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World War 2/Topic Areas of WW2 in pictures

1 Pre war developments

Air raid shelters

German soldiers marching 1936

World War 2 Allied servicemen marching

World War 2 Hitler with arms folded

2 Start of the War

BBC monitoring and reporting the war

BBC relocated to Wood Norton in Oxford

Children listening to the radio about the war

Germans parachute into the Low Countries

Neville Chamberlain making announcments on the radio

World War 2 Hitler with arms folded

World War 2 Soldier wearing a tin hat kissing daughter

World War 2 declared

3 Preperations for War

Call up to 30 then extended to 50

Death camps uncovered

Dig for victory

Eros removed from Piccadilly Circus

Filling sandbags

Gas masks being fitted

Providing food for the homeless

Scouts collecting waste paper

Soldier on duty at Broadcasting House

Winston Churchill inspects the Home Guard

Women wearing fake stockings

4 Start of fighting

Checking for enemy aircraft in London

Children listening to the radio about the war

Ground briefing for crew before take off

Lancaster bomber night take off

Squadron Leader Douglas Bader in the middle

Spitfires on a Kent airfield ready for the Battle of Britain

Troops at Dunkirk

World War 2 Girls join the refugees

World War 2 Anne Frank Diary

World War 2 Soldier wearing a tin hat kissing daughter

5 Bombing and the Blitz

Anti Aircraft gun defends airfield

Bomb damage in a London Street

Bomb damaged street

Buckingham Palace damaged

Burning German aircraft

Checking for enemy aircraft in London

Children shelter in Piccadilly underground

Church on fire in York

Damage to returning US bomber

Firemen fight fire at a Birmingham factory

First planes shot down

German bombers on a daylight raid

Germany bombs London

Homeless in Canterbury

Homes damaged beyond repair

Messerschnits ME110 over Paris

Office workers in the streets

Pilots running to planes

Plane shot down in Scotland

Sleeping in tube station

Sleeping through the blitz

Temporary Post Office

World War 2 Heinkel bombers

6 War Effort

BBC monitoring and reporting the war

BBC relocated to Wood Norton in Oxford

Rifles made in the USA

Ship being made in a British shipyard

Spitfires being made

Waste paper collection

7 War in Sunderland

2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry march along Bridge Street

7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry march into park

Air Raid precautions

Austin's dry dock

Beehive Corner 1939

Binns blitzed Binns Blitzed

Bombing in Southwick October 1941

Britannia Pub in Cleadon

Damage to Josephs sports shop

Direct hit Sunderland railway station

Distressing Task for a Wearside woman looking through rubble

Doxford Shipyard Fire Fighters

Evacuee's at registration

Evacuee on Millfield Station

Fenwicks brewery bombed

Fulwell crossing bombed 1943

Fulwell family saved by using Morrison type shelter 1941

Game Off Roker Park home of Sunderland FC bombed 1943

Helping the war effort a parade through Sunderland, Doxford shipyard float

Humbledon, bombed Anderson shelter

Joseph's sports shop bombed

Lockharts Cafe bombed

Lodge Terrace, Sunderland bombed

Military Burial of German aircrew at Castletown Cemetery

Monkwearmouth bombsite 1943 15 people killed

Morrison Shelter

7 War in Sunderland Continued

Perils of war, Monty Joseph examines damage to his shop

Railway Station after bomb hit 1940 (jpg)

River Wear (jpg)

River Wear, Monkwearmouth Bridge

Running on gas, A gas powered bus

Smiling through, Women and young lads were drafted into shipyards

South Bents, bombed and restored

Southwick bombed

Southwick family bombed

St George's Square Sunderland after bombing

St Thomas's Church after bombing

Suffolk Street after bombing

Sunderland station after being bombed September 5/6 1940

The Warden Door, from Bishopwearmouth Rectory

Tragedy at Pallion

Train Station 1

Train Station 2

Train Station 3

U-Boat brought into River Wear

Union Street bombing

Unknown bombsite

Unknown bombed Street

VE Day in Mowbray Park 1945

Victoria Hall bombing 1941

Wearside at War, Binns 1941

Welding in shipyards

Winter Gardens glass shattered

Women shipyard workers

Women at work in the shipyards

8 U-Boat War

U-Boat sunk by liberators

9 America enters the War

Churchill meets President Trueman

Churchill, Monty and US General cross into Germany

Pearl Harbour USS Arizona sunk

USA GI's arrive

USA Liberator aeroplanes take off to bomb Germany

Warship on fire Pearl Harbour

10 War in the Far East

11 Germany and Russia

Russian troops capture a German tank

Russians fight st Stalingrad

Women protect Leningrad

12 North Africa and Italy

Australians fight in the desert

German soldier captured in Italy

Italian soldiers surrender in Sicily

Troops come ashore in North Africa

People read of Italian surrender

Aeroplanes at Malta v Italy

Troops get ready in Egypt

13 D Day

After D Day devastated St Lo

After D Day German prisoners

After D Day ruined French Towns

D Day Allied Fleet near Normandy

D Day moving inland

D Day soldiers landing

D Day soldiers on beach

D Day US soldiers on beach

World War 2 operation Overlord

14 Advance through Europe

1st French tank at Paris Arc De Triomph

Allies cross rivers in Low Countries

American GI's march into Paris

Australians fight in desert

Battle of the Bulge

Belgian police arrest German Sympathisers

French citizen insults German prisoner

German refugees flee from fighting

German refugees head for safety

World War 2 girls join refugees

15 End of War

Berlin in ruins

Berliners clean up the ruins

Liberating Prisoner of War camps

More German prisoners

Not all soldiers went home alive

Royal family celebrate the end of the war

VE Day Lancashire

VE Day Trafalger Square

War reporters and editor for BBC

16 War in the Pacific

VJ Day in London

17 Atom bombs inJapan

A bomb - person killed

Hiroshima vapourised

Nagasaki flattened

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