The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. ...
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At just before 5am on the 19th August 1942 the Allied forces launched a sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on the north coast of France. ‘Operation Rutter’ as it was known ...
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys ...
How things have changed, back in 1942 making TV programmes was a potential minefield for directors and producers. Television was extremely tame and heavily censored until the early 1970s, potential pitfalls included hot kissing, tight sweaters and ...
In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland to evaluate the progress of post-war reconstruction. The photos are from their visit in August of 1947 to view the progress in ...
They always came at night, swooping down low on their terrorised targets under the cover of darkness. They were called Night Witches, and they were highly effective at what they did, even though the wooden craft ...
The Library of Congress has a stunning collection of photos of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway by Jack Delano of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. They depict the trains, the route, and the people who made them ...
The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts ...
June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by ...
Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time ...
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