This collection holds extensive records relating to most operations of the Second World War, as well as a great deal on the Home Front. Major campaigns from this War are covered here in posters, leaflets and other printed materials. Photographs of Special Operations Executive personnel, double agents and defectors are also available.
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Lend A Hand On The Land campaign: 'Join The Women's Land Army' poster
'We Want Your Kitchen Waste' poster
'Gas Attack' poster
Children learning to 'Dig For Victory'
Ministry of Food rationing leaflet: 'One Pot Meals'
Air raids: aftermath of the first V2 attack, Chiswick, South West London
Air raids: school classroom, bricked up against air raids
Resistance fighter plants explosives on a railway line in France
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces over Southern Italy, June 1944
Operation Overlord: damage and destruction in Caen, 1944
Special Operations Executive Personnel: agent Noor Inayat Khan, aka Jeanne Marie
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Operation Pluto (Pipe Line Under The Ocean): construction of the steel drum at Tilbury
Lend A Hand On The Land campaign: 'Join The Women's Land Army' poster
'We Want Your Kitchen Waste' poster
'Gas Attack' poster
Children learning to 'Dig For Victory'
Ministry of Food rationing leaflet: 'One Pot Meals'
Air raids: aftermath of the first V2 attack, Chiswick, South West London
Air raids: school classroom, bricked up against air raids
Resistance fighter plants explosives on a railway line in France
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces over Southern Italy, June 1944
Operation Overlord: damage and destruction in Caen, 1944
Special Operations Executive Personnel: agent Noor Inayat Khan, aka Jeanne Marie 
Operation Pluto (Pipe Line Under The Ocean): construction of the steel drum at Tilbury