Slightly out of focus

Guildford Lido, 1943.

Friday.

IWM (D 15974), MoI Photo Division photographer

Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh, by Ivor Hele, 1941.

AWM ART22868

Loading a Fairey Swordfish with a mine, c.February 1941.

AWM 005693, British official photographer

Exhibition of wartime photos in Northern Ireland.

Exhibition of wartime photos in Northern Ireland.

Exhibition of wartime photos in Northern Ireland.

Exhibition of wartime photos in Northern Ireland.

People love looking at wartime pictures and it turns out they did during the conflict too. On 10th December 1941, Lieutenant J.R. Bainbridge photographed an exhibition of War Office pictures on display in Northern Ireland.

(📷: Imperial War Museum)

Battlefield burial of three NCOs, by Ivor Hele, 1944.

AWM ART22560

Hawker Tempest Mark II aircraft lined up beside the runway at the Hawker Aircraft Ltd factory at Langley, Berkshire. Original colour.

IWM (COL 44), Michael Christie, Ministry of Aircraft Production Official Photographer

Alert in Piccadilly, by Colin Colahan, 1942.

AWM ART23537

Friday.

IWM (D 5725), MoI Photo Division photographer

🎄🚨 COMPETITION TIME! 🚨🎄
WIN a SIGNED copy of Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945! The greatest battle you’ve never heard of!

Just repost any of these posts over the next few days, and on Sunday I’ll pick a winner at random. #WNTL?
#ww2 #history #author #writer #christmas #xmas #present #competition #win

AWAS entering a light tank, by Geoffrey Mainwaring, 1942.

AWM ART21341

Gunners Menley and Dixon of the 10th Medium Battery, 75th Shropshire Yeomanry Medium Regiment RA with their regimental goose mascot, Charley Pip, Salerno area, 18 September 1943. The man in the back of the truck is thinking of Christmas.

IWM (NA 6938), Lt. Chetwyn, AFPU

Men of 268 Light AA Battery, RA, look at photographs from a mobile exhibition of the AFPU's work, laid out in a vehicle pit in the Mareth Line, Tunisia, March 1943. A man on the right has 'Doris' written across his sleeveless pullover.

IWM (NA 1541), Lt McLaren, AFPU

Ballet of wind and rain, by Colin Colahan, 1945.

AWM ART25701

A Humber Mk II armoured car of the 12th Royal Lancers on patrol south of El Alamein, July 1942.

IWM (E 14640), Lt. McLaren, AFPU

Airstrip at night, by Eric Thake, 1945.

AWM ART26971

Infantry Landing Craft entering Catania: 8th August 1943, by John Worsley, 1943.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 3367)

An upturned AFPU truck (note the badge on the side) which struck a mine outside Catania, Sicily, is examined by a member of the AFPU (with De Vry camera on his shoulder), 5 August 1943. Lt. McLaren, who had arrived the previous day, was wounded.

IWM (NA 5348), Capt. Knight, AFPU

A daylight raid, by Dennis Adams, 1945.

AWM ART22193

Liberation and Battle of France: Battle of Tilly. DLI going into action from the village of Lingevre, 14th June 1944 with destroyed Tiger and Sherman tanks in the foreground, by Anthony Gross.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4465)

A knocked out German Panther tank lying in the centre of Lingevres, 20 June 1944.

IWM (B 5781), Sgt Midgley, AFPU

Necessary administration in a pre-computer age - records of thousands of troops are kept in a large card index in the R.A.S.C. Regimental Pay Office, Finsbury Circus in London, 5 October 1942.

IWM (H 24273), Sgt Wooldridge, AFPU

Corvettes and Minelaying Trawlers being built at Aberdeen, by Christopher Perkins.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1600)

Operation Epsom - the AFPU with the Royal Scots Fusiliers (Part 2) Sergeant Connolly's films

My latest Substack article is up - Part 2.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Operation Epsom - the AFPU with the Royal Scots Fusiliers (Part 1) Major Stewart's photographs

My latest `sub stack article is up - Part 1.
open.substack.com/pub/insharpf...

Friday.

IWM (NPB 13678), MoI, 1944

A Battery Position in an Orchard of Young Fruit Trees in the Snow, by Edward Ardizzone.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4931)

Good evening.

Pioneers on a Frozen Road at Kapelle near Goes, Zeeland, by Thomas Barclay Hennell.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 4919

Rockets from a Typhoon of No 181 Squadron, RAF, fired at buildings at Carpiquet airfield, Normandy.

IWM (C 4460)

Aeroplanes on an Airfield, by Eric Ravilious, 1942.

IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1857)