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The British Mediterranean fleet on patrol on April 26, 1942. The British cruiser opening fire on enemy aircraft. (AP Photo)

British Forces carried out a raid on the French Coast near Boulogne on April 23, 1942. Troops were landed and after penetrating the German defenses su...

British Forces carried out a raid on the French Coast near Boulogne on April 22, 1942. Troops were landed and after penetrating the German defenses su...

Just a wave of the hand, left, but it symbolizes a friendship of fighting men which spans the seas as a Free French destroyer on convoy duty is passed...

Passing a mail bag at sea while traveling at full speed on April 5, 1942. (AP Photo)

British Commandos invaded St. Nazaire, above, the great Nazi submarine base on the French Brittany coast on March 28 in what appeared to have been an...

Australia is straining every nerve to speed up her output of machines of war. This Victoria plant produces wings, rudders and other sub-assembles in q...

Australia has stepped up her production of anti-tank guns,anti-aircraft, 25-pounder guns in preparation of the defence of her coast from possible Japa...

Many new shipyards have been opened in Australia to take part in an extensive shipbuilding programme. The Commonwealth has already built naval vessels...

Australian steel is playing an invaluable part in Australia's munitions production. General view of shell shop, somewhere in Australia, on March 18, 1...

Many new shipyards have been opened in Australia to take part in an extensive shipbuilding programme. The Commonwealth has already built naval vessels...

A destroyer receives the signal saving an enemy air attack can de expected. Gun crews are standing by their guns watching and waiting on March 15, 194...

The first convoy for many months got through to besieged Malta in March 4, 1942, and it made the passage under ceaseless air and sea attack. One of t...

"White cars in a war seascape", a British Cruise steaming through a choppy sea on was service on March 2, 1942. (AP Photo)

In combined operation on the night of Feb. 28, 1942, joint forces of the Royal Air Force, Army and Royal Navy, attacked and destroyed an important Ger...

In a combined operation on the night of February 27 and 28, joint forces of the royal navy, the army and the royal air force attacked and destroyed an...

A large number of tanks of various well-known cavalry regiments took part in a large scale exercise in the eastern command, somewhere in England, on F...

Britain's King George VI inspected a battalion of the Grenadier Guards and watched the bridge building and erecting wire entanglements exercises. King...

A Bulldozer hauling equipment ashore from a landing craft during an exercise, somewhere in Scotland, on Feb. 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

King Peter, of Yugoslavia arrived in England on Feb. 27, 1942, and was met on behalf of the King by H.R.H. The Duke of Kent. King Peter walking in the...

Darwin, before the war a remote outpost of Australia's far north, has become a base of great strategic importance in the scheme of Pacific defense. St...

Torpedoes and depth charges carried by destroyers of the United States fleet, display a personal touch" these days. These torpedo warheads carry the n...

Mrs. Clementine Churchill, the wife of the Prime Minister, making her appeal for the aid for Russia fund during the International Soccer Match at Wemb...

Winston Churchill displayed his "siren suit", a sort of zippered coverall, for rapid air radio dressing before White House intimates and the press in...

Winston Churchill displays his "siren suit", a sort of zippered coverall, for rapid air raid dressing before White House intimates and the press in Wa...

Cherbourg after bombing by coastal command aircraft in 1942. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, addresses a joint session of the Congress of the United States in Washington on Dec. 26, 1941 predicting a...

Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, addresses a joint session of the Congress of the United States in Washington on Dec. 26, 1941 predicting a...

Winston Churchill holds up fingers in V sign as he leaves the Capitol in his car on Dec. 26, 1941. (AP Photo)

A general view in the Senate Chamber, as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed Congress on British and American war plans in Washington o...

A canine reception group greets one of the warships of the Free French force arriving to take possession of the Vichy-governed Islands of St. Pierre a...

Working day and night in all weathers the minesweepers keep 1,100 miles of Channel clear for shipping around the coast of Great Britain, shown Dec. 20...

Working day and night in all weathers the minesweepers keep 1,100 miles of Channel clear for shipping around the coast of Great Britain, shown Dec. 20...

9th Gurkhas training extensively somewhere in the Malayan jungle on Dec. 18, 1941. Part of the exercise, when 3" trench mortars were used. (AP Photo)

Admiral Sir James Somerville who wore his flag in the HMS Renown in the pursuit and final destruction of the German battleship Bismark, was photograph...

Representative Albert Gore of Tennessee speaking at the meeting of the Congress of American Industry at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Dec....

This was what remained of a British bombing plane which was shot down by Nazi night pursuit planes on the Channel Coast on Oct. 18, 1941. (AP Photo)

This was what remained of a British bombing plane which was shot down by Nazi night pursuit planes on the Channel Coast on Oct. 18, 1941. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI paid a visit to the Scottish command where he saw various landing exercises. The King going aboard one of the landing craft f...

Troops landing from one of the landing craft , during an exercise watched by King George VI, somewhere in Scotland, on Oct. 11, 1941. (AP Photo)

Britain's King George VI paid a visit to the Scottish command where he saw various landing exercises. The King talking to officers who took part in th...

1,500 German sick or wounded prisoners are to be repatriated in exchange for Britain sick and wounded war prisoners. Some of the German prisoners bein...

1,500 German sick or wounded prisoners are to be repatriated in exchange for Britain sick and wounded war prisoners. One of the German prisoners being...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, surrounded by a huge crowd of workers at an aerodrome factory he has just visited, somewhere in England, o...

Girls are opening American Red Cross floor sacks preparatory to their manufacture into clothing in Marseilles, France on Sept. 26, 1941. When someone...

One of Britain's latest tanks, the Ccrusader' Mark VI cruiser, which weight 15 tons is armed with a two pounder gun and Besa machine gun and has a spe...

Boche-Buster is the name given to this howitzer on rails operating in the South Eastern command, somewhere in England, on Sept. 8, 1941. The gun can h...

On the way back from meeting President Roosevelt, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill landed from H.M.S. Prince of Wales at Reykjavik, Iceland,...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, acknowledging the farewell cheers of the crews of an American destroyer on the return journey from his his...

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the three senior service officers who accompanied him at a meeting in the Admirals' quarters aboard Bri...