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A man standing on rocks at a beach. He is wearing a cloth cap and jacket.

A Soviet Union Displaced Persons camp entrance. An entrance sign can be seen.

A group of airmen in military uniform outside a entrance to a building.

The photographs on the left of the left page and the two photographs on the right page show aerial views of urban settlements.
The photograph on the right of the left page shows an aerial view of the countryside.

Top left shows a hangar under construction. Other buildings and houses can be seen in the background.
Top right shows rows of bi-planes standing on the grass.
Bottom left shows aircraft under maintenance in an aircraft hangar.
Bottom right…

A ship with a coastline with buildings in the background.

Aerial photograph of a settlement built along a single loop of unpaved road at the confluence of a river and the sea. The area is forested, giving way to open countryside on the hillside beyond. A road alongside has cars travelling on it with cars…

An oblique aerial photograph of a town destroyed by bombing. The starboard wing of an aircraft obscures the bottom of the image.

A vertical aerial photograph of a destroyed truss bridge.

25 airmen posed in three rows, wearing greatcoats and caps with aircrew under training flash, in front of a row of terrace houses. On the reverse 'Keith, middle row extreme left'.

Five airmen wearing khaki shorts and shirts, two holding pith helmets, sitting and leaning on a balustrade wall by a beach. Bernard Ross is second from the left. Another shirtless man sits further along on the right. Sign on the wall states 'Officers…

Air-to-air view looking down at Halifax flying with only starboard inner engine. Captioned 'one engine flying'.

Halifax R9430 being test-flown by Squadron Leader P Dobson to determine the rate of height loss while flying on one engine.

A view of a camp taken from outside.

Top right: River.
Centre: Cinema. On reverse: 'Plaza talkies South Parade Rd'.
Centre right: Passenger train on single track in lush vegetation.
Bottom left: Maharajah 'Krishnaraja wodeyar' Memorial in Mysore.
Bottom right: Mosque with two domed…

A car parked in front of a large single storey thatched building. Another car in the background left. In front a sign pointing right 'To the Hippo Pools'. On the reverse 'Stayed here one night. Hippo not far away but didn't see any as the weather…

A series of brick built, flat roofed buildings with chimneys. The second storey has outward lifting shutters. There is an arched colonnade on the ground floor and a bicycle leans against one of the arches. A badminton net is erected in the courtyard…

Long, low whitewashed brick building with tiled roof, brick pillared veranda with large outward opening windows, standing between a row of palm trees and a sloping sandy beach. Easy chairs and sun loungers stand in front of the veranda with canvas…

Low brick building with a corrugated roof, chimneys and a brick pillared veranda, with doorways beyond, along its length. Open grassed area in front with circular flowerbed bordered with individual whitewashed stones.

The single storied, whitewashed and tiled roofed Imperial Talkies cinema; benches in a circular formation in front with a car parked alongside.

Tree line street with two story building on far side. Group of servicemen walking down the street with others walking in the distance.

Three airmen in distance sitting round a table in village square with buildings surrounding. Steep hillside behind with further buildings and steep mountainous cliffs above.

12 photographs from an album.
#1 a group of trainees arranged in four rows, captioned ' 'C' flight ISQD 13 ITW Torquay (1943)'
#2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Robert Wilfred Hawkes with a trainees cap.
#3 is three trainee airmen standing…

A city shoreline with various buildings, some with domes and towers taken from a ship. Various boats on the sea closer to the shore.

Two ships in port. Dockside with cranes and buildings.

Military personnel queuing to embark on a ship from a portside with rails. Moveable low fencing to control the orderly flow of hundreds of men carrying kit bags and other items. Row of parked trucks next to a large building with a ‘no smoking’…