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Main headline: no change in official views on racing. present intention not to cancel Newmarket and Ascot meetings: Scots rugby star is prisoner. Round up of other sports news.

Page 7 - editorial comments with photograph of a Whitley production line. Other headlines: Britain will fight on, munition worker's pay

Page six. main article suggesting Hitler would attempt to invade England this month or next. Other headlines: How glorious went down. don't waste a single vegetable, guard ships order.

Three photographs of passengers on refugee liner Washington after she had been stopped by U-boat. Other headlines: guns are quiet now in no-mans land, Petain's speech stunned France, ambushed pressmen escape.

Several headlines: London prepares for stern days, German car arrest at sight order, prison sentence for chatterbug, defied the Nazis blew up bridge

Pages 2 and 3 of Daily Sketch with several other headlines and articles. French army fighting on as dictators decide surrender terms, Will French navy obey cease fire, Empire pledges herself anew, French insist on peace with honour, Nazis near Swiss…

Top - article subsidiary headline: US hears premiers words. Round up of news from France and broadcast by prime minister Winston Churchill relayed to the United States. Bottom - article headline every man to arms accompanied by photograph of RAF…

Green cover with photographs printed in gold at bottom right.

Account of possibly the last Battle aircraft to escape from France before the country fell to the Germans in June 1940. Tells of the aircraft of 88 Squadron being repaired after being force down at Poitiers. Took of from Fontenoy-Le-Conte near La…

Top left - reconnaissance photograph showing the port of Dieppe. Basin running middle left to top right with many barges tied up. River runs above top edge of basin with industrial building between. Below basin more industrial buildings and a further…

Top left - oblique aerial photograph of open countryside with fields and a few woods, dotted with farms. Many dark 'blots' which could be anti-aircraft fire bursts. Captioned 'A03 FEL 21.12.42//M8:1000 J.p.48'. Top right - oblique aerial photograph -…

Reconnaissance photograph of a port city with sea to the right and a river running centre right to left. Docks above and below river mouth. Photograph caption '622 W/642. I.P.R.U. 27.5.41. F/20:R↑'. Page caption 'Brest'.

Top right - a pink postit with note 'A/C from RAF Wick, 1 PRU were there, "Warner Leisure 50% off"'. Centre - An aerial vertical photograph of a snow covered landscape with a railway line with numerous protective snow shed running from right to…

Brown cloth cover marked reprinted in India July 1942. Contents: Chapter 1 - appreciations, orders and reports. Chapter 2 - Discipline. Chapter 3 - Signals. Chapte 4- air navigation. Chapter 5 - meteorological information. Chapter 6 - airmanship.…

Side view of a Mitsubishi Ki 67 type A with 2 C-47s in the background.

Side view of a Japanese C-47 variant. Captioned 'Replica of USA 'Dakota' made by Japs, inc Jap language marked instruments etc.'.

A Sakae 12 radial engine sitting in a scrap heap. Captioned 'New Zero engine'.

A Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka is resting on A-frames, with its canopy open. A building and some trees are visible in the background.

Pocket watch owned by Peter Banks's grandfather. Case marked 'ARGENTAN'.

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1. A B-24 Liberator 'J' landed gear up in a field.
2. Front right front quarter view of a crashed B-24 lying in open ground. Aircraft is titled slightly down to right and show broken fuselage just behind nose turret. On the reverse 'Liberator in the…

A heap of scrap which includes a Mitsubishi A6M Zero

A small piece of scrap with a message in Japanese. Captioned on the reverse 'A6M3 model 22?' On a separate sheet is 'Translation Material possible from scrap yard zero. A6M Model 22? "Small above water warrior model type 1100"'.

The aircraft was found in the jungle close to Seletar camp. It has nosedived into the ground. One man is standing by the cockpit. On the tail is code B1. The wing tip is hinged upwards.

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Photograph 1 is an oblique of a road across a lake captioned 'Road leading to Angkor Wat temples'.
Photograph 2 is a near vertical view of a temple captioned 'Another Angkor Thom temple (still under re-construction)'.
Photograph 3 and 4 are two…

Oblique aerial photographs of the lost city of Angkor Thom. Captioned 'Cambodia The lost city of Angkor Thom re-discovered in 1861. Above & right:- City founded by Emperor Jayavarman II in 9th century. Angkor Wat temple built by Emperor Suryavarman…