Middle, left, Christmas greetings.
Middle, right, best wishes at Christmas.
Bottom left, regarding diplomats.
Bottom right, German identity.
Right page, top, announcements of family engagements, marriages and births.
Top left, list of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and a list of Royal Air Force Volunteer Force members.
Middle left, lifeboat dropped to the crew of an American flying-boat. Middle right, woman with a dog in her arms in a garden.
Third row left, three women, a man and a dog in a garden.
Third row right, five women sat on a bench alongside a hedge.
Bottom left, birth announcements.
Bottom right, a group of five women with a sixth figure with tennis rackets alongside.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> eng]]> deu]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Gloucestershire]]> England--Filton]]> 1913]]> 1915]]> 1942]]> 1944]]> 1951]]>
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William Gray Walker. Bottom right girl on a beach.
Right page: report on a Renault factory.
Bottom left, eight men and two women in cricket attire with a ninth man sat on the grass in uniform.
Bottom right, eight men and five women, three wearing ties, arranged on the grass by a brick wall.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> eng]]> deu]]> fra]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Oxford]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Heckington]]> France]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943-03-01]]>
Bottom, Stanley sending love and best wishes.
Right page: propaganda leaflets dropped in Italy and Germany, annotated 'war time propaganda leaflets released by the R.A.F.'.]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> eng]]> ita]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Warwickshire]]> England--Birmingham]]> Italy]]> Germany]]>
#1 is four infantry in a shallow trench using optical rangefinders and binoculars.
#2 is a tracked vehicle pulling a field gun.
#3 is of the Erfurt Artillery Barracks.
#4 is of parachutists being dropped from Ju 52s.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Stilgoe]]> Pending identification. Things]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Photograph]]> Wehrmacht]]> Germany]]> Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Erfurt]]>
Iga Sorkiewicz]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> pol]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> ESaundersSorkiewiczMSaundersJWG450121-0002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Wehrmacht]]> Poland]]> Poland--Łambinowice]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1945-01-21]]> Iga Sorkiewicz]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> pol]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Poland]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1945-01-11]]> Iga Sorkiewicz]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Poland]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> 1944-12-09]]> Jadwiga Sorkiewicz]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Poland]]> Poland--Tychowo]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> Pending identification. Places]]> deu]]> rus]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> pol]]> Photograph]]> 1944-11-11]]> General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force urges people to be ready to play their part. He reassures the French that, once liberated, they will choose their own government.
General Montgomery expresses confidence in the combined allied forces.
Leaflet drops at 5.30am on 6th June contain a message from General Eisenhower, alerting the French living within 35km of the coast to leave for the countryside, away from transport routes. A second leaflet urges transport and communication employees to ensure the plan to attack transport routes is successful.
General de Gaulle, at the BBC in London, asks the French to fight by all possible means but to take care and follow orders. The Resistance and French army will be involved.
Albert Guigui, the CGT delegate in London, calls on French workers to do all they can to thwart the enemy including acts of sabotage, whilst taking care not to be captured.
In Algeria, M. Le Troquer, Deputy Commissioner for the Administration of Free Metropolitan Territories, exhorts everyone to do all they can to ensure France’s liberation. This is reiterated by M. Félix Gouin, President of the Advisory Council. M. Emmanuel d’Astier, Commissioner of the Interior, remarks that the French Forces of the Interior will join the Allies.
Churchill’s makes a statement on 6th June in the House of Commons and shares details of the landings, the combined forces and successes so far. He refers to the complexity of the plans and the tactic of surprise. All are resolved to succeed.
There are extracts from the King’s radio broadcast that same evening in which he calls on the nation and empire to be strong, and pray for those involved, calling it a fight of good against evil.
There are several photographs relating to the D-Day landings, which include General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and Sir Bertram Ramsay, Naval Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force.]]>
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It is captioned 'This is a photo of a notice on the back of a German army truck. The notice was brought back to Woodhall Spa by an Officer who was shot down & "walked home".']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945]]> Marie Thérèse Phillips]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> fra]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> France]]> France--Bernay (Eure)]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]> Great Britain. Political Warfare Executive]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> ita]]> Text]]> Wehrmacht]]> Italy]]> Germany]]>
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Embassy of Great Britain, Madrid]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Spain]]> Spain--Madrid]]> 1944-06-15]]> Despite earlier army reports being reliable, it is claimed that there is now German disinformation concerning the Russian campaign and the high number of casualties and prisoners.

After spotting a battle cruiser on 22nd July, an RAF operation was carried out on 24th July with damage to the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst battle cruisers and Prinz Eugen cruiser. 34 Messerschmitts were shot down. It claims German ships are now effectively confined to ports.

In a London radio broadcast, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s adviser, Harry Hopkins, outlines American assistance to Britain, including joint patrols by warships, significant numbers of aircraft, food, and military equipment already en route.

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Ten Serbs are hanged in Pancevo, on the orders of Bandelow after posters appeared stating that ten Serbs would be hanged for every German soldier killed or wounded. There are photographs of the hangings and of the notice.

Several occupied cities were fined for using the V-sign (for victory) as an act of defiance. To counter this, the propaganda ministry has stolen the sign for its own use.

Claims public is being deceived about share dividends being reduced (regulation to limit the distribution of profits on 21st June 1941).

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The RAF flight range will increase as nights draw in, with heavier bombs at their disposal. Advice is dispensed to German urban populations on preparations to take for the autumn and winter.

Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, on 15 July denigrates German media propaganda on the state of British nutrition; he claims German prisoners are amazed at how abundant it is and points to American supplies in the coming year with a higher nutritional value than the last fifteen years.

America and Britain and its allies have frozen all Japanese assets as a result of it taking French-Indochina.

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By taking over protection of Iceland, the United States has reduced the danger zone for British ships crossing the Atlantic, fulfilling the United States’ Secretary of State, Cordell Hull’s promise that weapons and foodstuff would safely reach their destination.
With the news that Dr Robert Ley had visited some bombed cities in West Germany, the correspondent makes some comparisons between the good things England is doing for its people compared to Germany’s leaders.

In addition to all the steelworks, armaments works and mines acquired in a number of territories, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring has acquired Omnipol A.G. as an import export company to buy and sell as it wants.
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A proclamation by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander and Military Governor follows the allies’ invasion. It stresses that military rule will be strict but fair in the allied territories with the aim of achieving peace, removing the Nazi leadership and sentencing war criminals. The civilian population will be able to go about their daily business. There are photographs of General Eisenhower and American officers in discussion with German civilians.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Civilian]]> Germany]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> pol]]> deu]]> Text]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> eng]]> pol]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1947-12-19]]> Veuve Senechal]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> fra]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> France]]> France--Eure]]> 1947-01-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> fra]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Civilian]]> France]]> Great Britain]]> England--Sale]]> France--Eure]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1948-02-03]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sally Coulter]]> Pending text-based transcription. Other languages than English]]> deu]]> Text]]>