1941

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German pictures of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front gave little indication of the the terrible state many of their troops were in.

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A Canadian Official portrait of Churchill addressing the Canadian Parliament on 30th December 1941.

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German troops unloading frozen supplies on the Eastern front during the winter of 1941-2

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Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, KCB, DSO, broadcasting the Fleets Greetings from the cabin of his flagship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH off Alexandria. He stated that "The Navy in the Mediterranean in the past year has fought and won against some pretty long odds and has kept the sea."  This Admiralty photograph released to the press was all part of a cover up following the recent  disabling of the Queen Elizabeth.

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An Me 109 fighter attempts to take off as the Norwegian airfield of Herdla comes under low level attack, bombs can be seen exploding. Blenheim bombers from No.114 Squadron made this diversionary raid 80 miles south of Vaasgo.

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Residents of Leningrad queueing up for water”. People in besieged Leningrad taking water from shell-holes. Location: Nevsky Prospect, December 1941

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An Admiralty official photograph released to show Christmas on board ship 1941 "In the ward room that has been decorated with balloons and streamers, the First Lieutenant carves the joint during Christmas celebrations on board HMS WESTMINSTER at Rosyth."  Note the vacant chair for the officer on watch and the aircraft identification pictures on the wall.

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Joseph Goebbels, the German propaganda minister , was totally devoted to Hitler and like many senior Naz's, anxious for his approval.

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Aircraft of the 'Flying Tigers' are guarded by a Nationalist Chinese soldier

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The battleship HMS Duke of York crashes across the North Atlantic as it conveys Winston Churchill for a conference with Franklin Roosevelt. The journey took ten days.

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An official publicity shot of a South African rifle section patrolling the desert sand dunes.

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German soldiers man an isolated gun position in the in the snow on the Eastern front, December 1941.

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The Light Cruiser HMS Neptune, only one man survived out of her entire complement when she came to grief in a minefield.

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Halifax bombers from No. 35 Squadron over Brest on 18th December 1941 in an attempt to knock out the two German 'pocket battleships', the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau

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The carrier HMS Audacity was the first of the Escort  carriers designed to provide much needed air cover for merchant convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic

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Hans Frank the Governor of what remained of Poland during the Nazi period. Four of the six main extermination camps were to be based on his territory.

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This well-known image was taken by a Nazi perpetrator of the mass killings of 2,749 Jews on the beach near the city of Liepāja, in Latvia, on December 15 through 17, 1941. These women had been forced to disrobe and then pose for the camera. Scholarly work has led to the identification of some of the women shown. From left to right: (1) Sorella Epstein; (2) believed to be Rosa Epstein, mother of Sorella; (3) unknown; (4) Mia Epstein; (5) unknown. Alternatively, (2) may be Paula Goldman, and Mia Epstein may be (5) instead of (4).  15 December 1941: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 19121

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The Flying Fotress flown by Captain Wheless on the 14th December 1941 was found to have 1200 bullet holes in it after he managed to crash land at the airfield on Mindinao, saving his crew from further injuries,

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HMS Maori, one of the Tribal class destroyers, sister ship to HMS Sikh which led the attack.

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Panzer IV tanks in the snow of the Eastern Front at the end of 1941, in the intense cold engines had to be kept running almost continuously.

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