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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Group of Officers, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac - Date: c. 1863<br />
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[Culpeper Virginia]. Group of officers headquarters Army of the Potomac Date: c. 1863 Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0283 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Military bands. Infantry--Union. 114th Pennsylvania Infantry.United States--Virginia--Brandy Station. 1 negative : glass wet collodion. LC-B817- 7611[P&P] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Advert for ‘Woman Power’ insurance (Eagle Star & British Dominions Insurance Company, Ltd.), The Landswoman, July 1918, No. 7, Vol. 1. ‘Woman-power throughout the British Empire stands out dominantly as the most wonderful feature of the War,’ the advert stated. It suggested that women did not ‘grasp the meaning of what the consequences of a serious illness or accident would be to her.’ Pre-war women’s labour was not considered worth insuring.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: ‘Women’s War-Work on a Royal Farm’. Miss Hilda Hobson, Miss Marjorie Maxfield and Miss Phyllis Hobson, workers on the Sandringham estate. Illustrated War News, 8 November, 1916.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: ‘Women’s War-Work on a Royal Farm’. Miss Hilda Hobson, Miss Marjorie Maxfield and Miss Phyllis Hobson, workers on the Sandringham estate. Illustrated War News, 8 November, 1916.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows A ‘wood-woman’ (‘Given a sound and robust physique, a woman war-worker could scarcely desire a healthier occupation than that shown in our photograph.’) Illustrated War News, 30 January 1918.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: The “War-Brownies” at work on a farm’ (‘so nicknamed because of their earth- brown breeches and smocks’). Illustrated War News, 25 June 1916.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows Women mole catchers on an estate in the Cotswolds, Illustrated War News, 10 April 1918.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows Women working in t:he forests of Brent Tor, Devon. Illustrated War News, 8 August 1917.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Picturesque War-Work: The Lady Shepherd’, Illustrated War News, 5 July 1916.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: The farmer’s daughter, Miss Luke, is herself driving the machine, and a soldier in khaki is at the side. Mr. Luke, of Aldboro’ Hatch Farm, Essex, has arranged for a number of soldier helpers. His daughter is an expert reaper and is shown cutting a large field of wheat.’ Illustrated War News, 23 August 1916.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows Timber measurers working with a gang of Portuguese tree-fellers. Illustrated War News, 15 August 1917.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: ‘A farm wagon-load of women land- workers in Worcestershire are setting out to work’, Illustrated War News, 25 July 1917.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Girl-pupils’ spreading manure in the snow in Nottinghamshire, Illustrated War News, 24 January 1917.<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Broadway Landing, Va. Surgeons of 4th Division, 9th Corps<br />
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Petersburg Virginia. Surgeons of 4th Division 9th Army Corps Date: c. 1864 Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0283 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Military bands. Infantry--Union. 114th Pennsylvania Infantry.United States--Virginia--Brandy Station. 1 negative : glass wet collodion. LC-B817- 7611[P&P] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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General Torbert and his staff during the American Civil War<br />
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SHERIDANS CAVALRY IN THE SHENANDOAH—GENERAL TORBERT AND HIS STAFF Shcriilan appointed Gonoral Alfred T. A. Torbcrt Chief of Cavalry of the Army of the Shenandoah in August, 1864. General Tor-bert had been a regular army officer and was now a major-general of volunteers. This photograph was taken in 18G+, on the vine-covered veranda of a Virginia mansion occupied as headquarters. In all the operations in the Valley during September andOctober, Sheridan made such good use of the cavalry that this branch of the service leaped into prominence, and received a goodlyshare of the praise for eliminating the Valley of Virginia from the field of war.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows Women working in t:he forests of Brent Tor, Devon. Illustrated War News, 8 August 1917.<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)<br />
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Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.<br />
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On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his battalion, which included two of his brothers, were killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)<br />
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Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.<br />
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On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his battalion, which included two of his brothers, were killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Clothing adverts from The Landswoman, September 1918, No. 9, Vol. 1. and October 1918, No. 10, Vol. 1.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Recruiting rally for the Women’s Land Army, Preston, June 1918.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Flax pullers, Crewkerne, Somerset, 1918.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows Beatrice Bennett and fellow Women’s Land Army trainees, Kent, 1917. (Private Papers of Miss B. Bennett - IWM<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Initial advert for the Women’s Land Army, widely placed in the press in March 1917.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Advert for the Women’s Land Army, placed in the press in June and July 1917.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Bessie (‘Cuckoo’) Ziman and fellow workers. (Private Papers of Miss B.A. Ziman<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
<br />
Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Montage showing varieties of work at Great Bidlake Farm, Devon, The Landswoman, September 1918, No. 9, Vol. 1.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Beauty on Duty has a Duty to Beauty’. Advert for Vinolia Soap, The Landswoman, July 1918, No. 7, Vol. 1.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Clothing adverts from The Landswoman, September 1918, No. 9, Vol. 1. and October 1918, No. 10, Vol. 1.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Photo Shows: Recruiting rally for the Women’s Land Army, Preston, June 1918.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Cartoon by Bunty Daniel, a Land Girl, contrasting assumptions about, and the realities of, land work. The Landswoman, September 1918, No. 9, Vol. 1.<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows:  Beatrice Bennett and fellow timber workers at Chilgrove Camp, West Sussex, 1918.  <br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows : Recruiting rally for the Women’s Land Army, Preston, June 1918<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Cicely Spencer, Forage Corps, 1916. (Private Papers of Mrs C.M. Spencer <br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Bessie (‘Cuckoo’) Ziman and fellow workers. (Private Papers of Miss B.A. Ziman<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Lady Denman ‘who takes a keen practical interest in poultry-keeping’. Leeds Mercury, 19 September 1916<br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: How Women are Filling the Gaps in the Ranks’; Women sheaving corn, Missenden, Buckinghamshire. The Sketch, 26 August 1914.<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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(Gen. George E. Pickett, C.S.A.)<br />
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George Edward Pickett (January 16 1825 – July 30, 1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.<br />
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Portrait of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Anderson, officer of the Confederate Army. (February 16, 1813 – September 7, 1892)<br />
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Joseph R. Anderson,was an American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier. During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate general, and his Tredegar Iron Company was a major source of munitions and ordnance for the Confederate States Army.<br />
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  • Colorized photographs soldiers from the World War One<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Around Nixéville (Department of Meuse - France), April 8, 1916. Troops returning from" "Fort de Vaux" ".<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: Farm "La Bourdonnerie " (south of Chavenay - Marne<br />
the 14-7-1918<br />
The battlefield near the farm . Stretcher bearers under the dead for burial..<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "February 12, 1917 - Bimont Farm (near) (south of the Bois Saint-Mard) South of the ravine, Mingasson trench<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Slope Southeast - Shelter MF3 - Arrival of a wounded to the aid station.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: Cote 304 on August 25, 1917. Stretcherers raising the dead on the conquered ground<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Sainte Menehould - On January 12, 1916 .<br />
Road of Vitry, Soldiers and ""Lavandières"" at the laundry .<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows:"Chilly in the Somme, the 28th regiment soldiers in a trench .<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Canadian officers interested in a large French gun mounted on railroad. October, 1917.Credit: Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Fort Vaux November 22 , 1916. A sentry posted inside the Fort.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Wood of the Caillette - 1916 - Soldier trying a German mask found on the ground<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Region of Verdun - 1916<br />
After the fighting, soldiers surrounded the bodies of their comrades.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: The village of Souilly is crossed by "la Voie Sacrée" , which connects Verdun to Bar-le-Duc Station.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows:French and British soldiers standing around a German A7V tank captured at Villers-Brettoneux, May 1918.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows:"The sentence ""cooperative des Portes de Fer"" means cooperative canteen of the Iron Gates, this is a reference of the 161th Infantry Regiment surname : ""Régiment des Portes de Fer"". This regiment surname was given during the last phase of the Battle of the Somme in October-November 1916. It was the name of a German trench, called iron gates trench, a very strong German position, in the sector of Rancourt and Sailly-Saillisel, captured by the men of the French 161th Infantry Regiment .<br />
The sentence ""cooperative des Portes de Fer"" means cooperative canteen of the Iron Gates, this is a reference of the 161th Infantry Regiment surname : ""Régiment des Portes de Fer"". This regiment surname was given during the last phase of the Battle of the Somme in October-November 1916. It was the name of a German trench, called iron gates trench, a very strong German position, in the sector of Rancourt and Sailly-Saillisel, captured by the men of the French 161th Infantry Regiment .<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: French Senegalese troops acquainted with their new gas mask<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: French lines on the right bank of the Seille being held by the 150th Infantry Regiment, 5th Battalion. Port-sur-Seille, Meurthe-et-Moselle, March 1918<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Clermont en Argonne July 17, 1915 .<br />
Regiment returning from the trenches.<br />
These men return from fighting the Battle of the Argonne ( 13 to 20 July) . During the German attack, the French losses are huge. For example, the 4th Infantry Regiment lost 26 officers and 1,341 men during this period.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: 132/5000<br />
Some French and American officers who took part in the reconquest of cantigny in front of a Schneider French tank, May 1918.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Saint Folquin (France - Nord). September 3, 1917, at the corner of village.In the foreground, left to right: Fusilier Limbi , the ""second-maitre""second-maitreand the ""Fusilier-Marin"" St. Jamme who distinguished themselves in combat Die - Graetchen .<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows:"""Bois de Spandau"" in Northeast ""Bois Sabot"", October 27, 1915 . A French soldier killed while he ate.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Bois St Eloi N°2 (Somme), the 28 of October of 1916.<br />
French trench: In the background, German accessory defenses.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: Maney, Moe and Jacques posing for the camera in their Turco uniforms. They later opened an automotive supply store with great success <br />
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  • Holding the Home Front<br />
The Women’s Land Army in the First World War book by Pen and sward<br />
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Within days of the start of the First World War there were calls for women to come to the fields, but it would be almost three years before the Women’s Land Army was established. In that time though, various private and public initiatives would be launched to pull women onto the land. The Women’s Land Army would be shaped as much by the successes and failures of these earlier enterprises as by the precise requirements of 1917. It was a process of evolution, not revolution, and agricultural policy had also evolved over the course of the first three years of the war. By the spring of 1917 farmers were being called upon to plough out, to push back the borders and extend the cultivated acreage back to the highs of the 1870s. Agriculture would thus need most labour just as it had least available. Britain’s food security had never looked most precarious than it did at the start of 1917.<br />
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Photo Shows: Women’s trip to observe French farm work. Birmingham Daily Gazette, 24 February 1916.<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: " Neuvilly , 7 December 1915. ""La soupe"" in the Police station. The uniforms are dirty because during this period of incessant rains ( for 6 days) overwhelmed their trenches .<br />
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With his impressive colorized photographs of the World War One, Frédéric Duriez gives us a new look at the conflict that ravaged the world between 1914 and 1918, revealing the difficult daily life of the French soldiers. <br />
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Photo Shows: "Bois des Buttes September 17, 1917 .<br />
The soup in the lines of the 204th Infantry Regiment .<br />
During this period the sector is ""quiet"" . September 25 to 21:30 , the Germans sending a burst of 77 and kill 10 men of the 22th Company.<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Lt. Col. A.B. Elder, 10th N.Y. Infantry.<br />
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Unidentified African American woman - 1861<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Unidentified soldier in first lieutenant's uniform, red sash, leather gauntlets, and spurs with cavalry sword - 1861<br />
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
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Unidentified Confederate soldier<br />
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Unidentified soldier in Confederate sargeant's uniform and Company B hat with saber - between 1861 and 1865.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
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World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
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The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
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Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
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    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
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In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
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Photo shows: Mrs. Viola Sievers sprays an H-class locomotive with steam.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
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World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
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The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
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Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Wipers clean an H-class locomotive.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows:Roundhouse workers on their lunch break.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Cloe Weaver, mother of four, a roundhouse helper training to operate the turntable.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two, a wiper at the roundhouse.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three, a wiper at the roundhouse.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, a roundhouse wiper.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Wipers clean an H-class locomotive.<br />
©Library of Congress/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Fascinating_WWII_Color_Portrai...jpg
  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Elibia Siematter on her lunch break.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Thelma Cuvage sifts and cleans sand for use in locomotives.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers clean an H-class locomotive.<br />
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  • Fascinating Color Portrait Photos of Women Railroad Workers During WWII<br />
<br />
World War II began when Hitler's army invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, it wasn't until the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that the United States declared war on the Axis Powers.<br />
<br />
The railroads immediately were called upon to transport troops and equipment heading overseas. Soon the efforts increased to supporting war efforts on two fronts-- in Europe and in the Pacific.<br />
<br />
Prior to the 1940s, the few women employed by the railroads were either advertising models, or were responsible primarily for cleaning and clerical work. Thanks to the war, the number of female railroad employees rose rapidly. By 1945, some 116,000 women were working on railroads. A report that appeared on the 1943 pages of Click Magazine regarding the large number of American women who had stepped forward to see to it that the American railroads continued to deliver the goods during the Second World War:<br />
<br />
    "Nearly 100,000 women, from messengers aged 16 to seasoned railroaders of 55 to 65, are keeping America's wartime trains rolling. So well do they handle their jobs that the railroad companies, once opposed to hiring any women, are adding others as fast as they can get them..."<br />
<br />
In April 1943, Office of War Information photographer Jack Delano photographed the women of the Chicago & North Western Railroad roundhouse in Clinton, Iowa, as they kept the hulking engines cleaned, lubricated and ready to support the war effort.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mrs. Elibia Siematter, a sweeper at the roundhouse.<br />
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    ExPix_Fascinating_WWII_Color_Portrai...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows: This is the very same Junkers 88 some months later after being transported to the Corn Exchange, Brighton, for a War Weapons Exhibition. Although on an RAF Queen Mary, Mr Arthur Nicholls of A.V. Nicholls & Co. greets the wreck in his capacity as Mayor of Brighton and stands in his homburg hat flanked by two RAF airmen. By this stage of the war his company was no longer involved in wreck recovery, the task having been taken over by the establishment of 86 Maintenance Un
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows: This is the very same Junkers 88 some months later after being transported to the Corn Exchange, Brighton, for a War Weapons Exhibition. Although on an RAF Queen Mary, Mr Arthur Nicholls of A.V. Nicholls & Co. greets the wreck in his capacity as Mayor of Brighton and stands in his homburg hat flanked by two RAF airmen. By this stage of the war his company was no longer involved in wreck recovery, the task having been taken over by the establishment of 86 Maintenance Un
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Finally the wreckage was piled onto a Queen Mary trailer and moved down to Southern England where it was initially exhibited as shown here. The fuselage and engines were preserved for museum display and today comprise a major Imperial War Museum exhibit.<br />
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  A relatively unusual Luftwaffe aircraft type to be brought down over England was the Dornier 215. This example was shot down at Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire on 24 October 1940 and is being guarded by a War Reserve Constable before inspection by an RAF Intelligence Officer. As the Blitz gathered momentum after 7 September 1940, so the scale of downed fighters decreased, and the majority of Luftwaffe aircraft that were being destroyed became bombers.<br />
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Dudley in the West Midlands was the final exhibition venue for this Messerschmitt 109 from the RAF Faygate enemy aircraft ‘stable’. The number 13 on the fuselage gave some resonance with its bad luck connotations but in reality its pilot, Oblt Erwin Daig, had been lucky to survive the war as a POW after being shot down at Storrington, West Sussex on 9 September 1940. He could not have thought he was lucky at the time, but the fact of the matter is that had he not
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Another Messerschmitt 109 shot down in a residential area during the Battle of Britain was this aircraft of 6./JG52 that crashed on 20 October 1940 in the middle of a group of temporary houses for bombed-out Londoners. Luckily, none of the flimsy wooden dwellings were hit by the crashing fighter and the demise of this Me 109 ended up being a morale boosting event for the war weary residents. Here, a soldier mounts sentry duty on what seems to be a grey rainy day. An R
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  One of the contractors engaged for service to the RAF were the Brighton-based hauliers, A.V. Nicholls & Co. With their usual peacetime commercial haulage work diminished by hostilities it was inevitable that such companies should be engaged upon war work and proprietor Arthur Nicholls, a one-time Brighton Mayor, embraced his firm’s Air Ministry engagement with enthusiasm. Often he would personally visit the crash sites to assess what was required in the way of trans
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  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Aircraftsmen Jim Cookson and Bert Whitehead man the defensive gun post at RAF Faygate, with Cookson having acquired a Luftwaffe flare pistol which rests by his foot. He later told how he claimed this was officially to alert personnel at RAF Faygate of an imminent attack, though he later disclosed that it was useless for this purpose because he had fired off all the flare cartridges he could find ‘just for fun’ and that he regarded the pistol as his own war prize.<br />
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:Preparations for war resulted in an increased number of training-related and other accidents to RAF aircraft. This was the mangled wreckage of Hurricane L1593 of Biggin Hill-based 79 Squadron photographed at Ditchling Common in East Sussex where the aircraft crashed during a thunderstorm on 20 June 1939 whilst on a direction-finding homing flight. The accident resulted in the death of its pilot, Sgt L.F. Davis, RAF (VR), and attracted crowds of curious sight- seers and
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows: This image also highlights the pending logistical headache for the RAF once war was declared just three months later: how to salvage and recover crashed aircraft? At the time this photograph was taken it was very often simply the case that the motor transport section of the nearest RAF unit, or else the engineering officer of the squadron involved, would simply detail a party to go out and collect the pieces. Clearly, that was neither a sufficient nor a practical solut
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  And this was a Messerschmitt 109 that had been shot down on 7 October 1940 being pulled out of the sea by the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum during the 1970s. Notwithstanding the sterling efforts of the military and civilian crash salvage parties during the war years it is inevitable that aircraft wrecks they left behind will still be found for many years yet, especially inaccessible crashes such as these in coastal waters.<br />
©Pen and Sword/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Finally the wreckage was piled onto a Queen Mary trailer and moved down to Southern England where it was initially exhibited as shown here. The fuselage and engines were preserved for museum display and today comprise a major Imperial War Museum exhibit.<br />
©Pen and Sword/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Dudley in the West Midlands was the final exhibition venue for this Messerschmitt 109 from the RAF Faygate enemy aircraft ‘stable’. The number 13 on the fuselage gave some resonance with its bad luck connotations but in reality its pilot, Oblt Erwin Daig, had been lucky to survive the war as a POW after being shot down at Storrington, West Sussex on 9 September 1940. He could not have thought he was lucky at the time, but the fact of the matter is that had he not
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Another Messerschmitt 109 shot down in a residential area during the Battle of Britain was this aircraft of 6./JG52 that crashed on 20 October 1940 in the middle of a group of temporary houses for bombed-out Londoners. Luckily, none of the flimsy wooden dwellings were hit by the crashing fighter and the demise of this Me 109 ended up being a morale boosting event for the war weary residents. Here, a soldier mounts sentry duty on what seems to be a grey rainy day. An R
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  One of the contractors engaged for service to the RAF were the Brighton-based hauliers, A.V. Nicholls & Co. With their usual peacetime commercial haulage work diminished by hostilities it was inevitable that such companies should be engaged upon war work and proprietor Arthur Nicholls, a one-time Brighton Mayor, embraced his firm’s Air Ministry engagement with enthusiasm. Often he would personally visit the crash sites to assess what was required in the way of trans
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  Aircraftsmen Jim Cookson and Bert Whitehead man the defensive gun post at RAF Faygate, with Cookson having acquired a Luftwaffe flare pistol which rests by his foot. He later told how he claimed this was officially to alert personnel at RAF Faygate of an imminent attack, though he later disclosed that it was useless for this purpose because he had fired off all the flare cartridges he could find ‘just for fun’ and that he regarded the pistol as his own war prize.<br />
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:Preparations for war resulted in an increased number of training-related and other accidents to RAF aircraft. This was the mangled wreckage of Hurricane L1593 of Biggin Hill-based 79 Squadron photographed at Ditchling Common in East Sussex where the aircraft crashed during a thunderstorm on 20 June 1939 whilst on a direction-finding homing flight. The accident resulted in the death of its pilot, Sgt L.F. Davis, RAF (VR), and attracted crowds of curious sight- seers and
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows: This image also highlights the pending logistical headache for the RAF once war was declared just three months later: how to salvage and recover crashed aircraft? At the time this photograph was taken it was very often simply the case that the motor transport section of the nearest RAF unit, or else the engineering officer of the squadron involved, would simply detail a party to go out and collect the pieces. Clearly, that was neither a sufficient nor a practical solut
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  And this was a Messerschmitt 109 that had been shot down on 7 October 1940 being pulled out of the sea by the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum during the 1970s. Notwithstanding the sterling efforts of the military and civilian crash salvage parties during the war years it is inevitable that aircraft wrecks they left behind will still be found for many years yet, especially inaccessible crashes such as these in coastal waters.<br />
©Pen and Sword/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  A relatively unusual Luftwaffe aircraft type to be brought down over England was the Dornier 215. This example was shot down at Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire on 24 October 1940 and is being guarded by a War Reserve Constable before inspection by an RAF Intelligence Officer. As the Blitz gathered momentum after 7 September 1940, so the scale of downed fighters decreased, and the majority of Luftwaffe aircraft that were being destroyed became bombers.<br />
©Pen and Sword/Excl
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
  • RARE PHOTOGRAPHS - AIRCRAFT SALVAGE DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BLITZ,<br />
<br />
Clearing away the debris and detritus of modern mechanised warfare is some- thing that warring nations have had to deal with since the end of the First World War, and the inevitable result of twentieth century warfare was the<br />
large-scale littering of land and sea with the wreckages that combat left behind. The massive and widespread land battles across Europe during the first and second world wars left their own particular trails of destruction and debris that had to be cleared away before normal life could once again resume in the post war periods, and those clear-up operations presented their own challenges, dangers and difficulties. In the British Isles during the Second World War, and for the first time in modern history, the country was faced with widespread destruction caused by bombing, and disrup- tion and damage to infrastructure caused by almost six years of conflict – some of that damage resulting from defensive measures taken by the military with the estab- lishment of aerodromes, fortifications and other defences.<br />
Putting things back to how they were took very many years, although during the 1939–1944 period itself a far more immediate problem faced the authorities in Britain: the collection and disposal of shot down or crashed aircraft, allied and enemy. Such crashes needed almost immediate attention for a variety of reasons. How were they dealt with, and what subsequently happened to them?<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  The same pair pose on one of 49 MU’s surviving pieces of transport after the Tangmere raid. In the background can be seen the RAF Faygate guardroom which was put to post-war use as a site office for Messers Agate & Co., timber merchants.<br />
©Pen and Sword/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_RARE_PHOTOGRAPHS_AIRCRAFT_SALV...jpg
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