Slightly out of focus

Catalina taking off, by Dennis Adams, 1943.

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Monday.

IWM (AYY 272/1), Sgt McArdle, AFPU

Bomber crew, by Stella Bowen, 1945.

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Fireman Resting, by Norman Hepple, 1940.

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Thomas Tanner GM: War Reserve Police Constable, Marylebone Lane Police Station, by Heber Thompson, 1941.

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WVS Clothing Store, Bristol, by Joan Margaret Seaman.

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Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service make camouflage netting by tying strips of material to a large net, suspended from the ceiling in an old school building in London, 1943.

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An elephant helps to salvage the wreckage of an aircraft from the mud at the Royal Naval Air Station Katakurunda (HMS Ukussa), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

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HMS Oracle at Anchor, by John Nash.

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Just York today, but I like your enthusiasm…

King’s Cross station this evening.

Skinny-dipping whilst the build-up carries on around them. Love Ardizzone’s work.

The Invasion of Sicily: Troops and Vehicles Embarking on Invasion Craft at 'Charlie' Beach near Santa Teresa di Riva, Sicily, 3 September 1943, by Edward Ardizzone.

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Troops from C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment look over the landing vessels waiting to transport them from Catania, Sicily, for the invasion of Italy, 2 September 1943.

IWM (NA 6283), Sgt Drennan, AFPU

Troops at 52nd Training Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps undergo instruction at Bovington Camp, Dorset. Models controlled by magnets are used to show driving errors. May 1941.

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An Instructor at the Army and Royal Air Force Co-Operation School, by Henry Lamb, 1941.

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Three Sherman Flails clear a path in the snowy landscape as part of the attack on Stein in the Netherlands, 18 January 1945.

IWM (A70 230-4), Sgt Chitham, AFPU

Disabled Tanks, by Thomas Barclay Hennell.

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I do like Dring’s portraits. I’ve posted a few in the past on my timeline (here or the other place).

Two officers of the 28th (Māori) Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, after disembarking at Gourock in Scotland, 17 June 1940. The man on the right cheerily displays a mascot; the man on the left wishes he wouldn't keep doing that.

IWM (H 1813), Reuben Saidman , WO Official Photographer

Squadron Leader J C F Hayter DFC, by William Dring, 1944.

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My most important achievement in 49 years of work was getting the ball rolling for Stanley Kessell to receive recognition from the CWGC. The headstone was the icing on the cake. Others were involved, and it is important to acknowledge the fact, but I keep his memory with me every day.

Great work, Mark

Sign-posts, 1940, by Edward Seago, 1940.

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Men of the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers practise firing Boys anti-tank rifles on a beach near Étaples, France 6 February 1940.

The Photographer, Stanley Kessell, would be killed in the UK an accident filming an explosion in 1940.
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IWM (F 2441), Stanley Kessell, WO Official Photographer

Training at a Battle School: storming hill positions through a smokescreen, by Roland Vivian Pitchforth, 1943.

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Fire Guard Training School: The Smoke Test, by W Matvyn Wright, 1943.

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Yes, I agree, particularly the way he captures the effect of the light.

Workers at the Royal Navy Armament Depot at Priddy’s Hard in Gosport work on rectifying brass cartridge cases for eventual reuse. Cases piled like logs are behind the workers.

IWM (A 24938), Lt Zimmerman, RN Official Photographer

15 Inch Gun Turret, HMS Repulse, by Barnett Freedman, 1942.

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