The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Officers on look-out aboard the King George V. Too the right is a framed silhouette diagram of German aircraft

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. A German desert aerodrome. Junkers, Troop-Carriers and Messerschmitt fighters lined up in Libya

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Norwegians waiting to be taken aboard British vessels in the late evening in Spitzbergen

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. An American 11 ton tank and a British tank

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Collaboration between vichy and axis powers, the tail of a German aircraft damaged at Palmyra with Vichy markings painted over with the nazi Swastika

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. A letter from His Majesty the King being presented to Mr President Roosevelt by Mr Churchill

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. British and New Zealand cammanders meet at the first closing of the Robruk-Sidi rezegh corridor.

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. The ruined, bombed, House of Commons seen from the Palace of Westminster showing the gutted and roofless chamber.

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. The captain of the Ark Royal after working in vain for 12 hrs descending by rope to the waiting destroyer.

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II British forces ont he Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Spitzbergan or Swalbard. Canadian troops leaving their ship for the shore

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Portrait, the face of a Soviet Russia soldier, one of the thousands of red army soldiers defending their native soil.

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Londons fire fighting service directing streams of water from soaring fire ladders and ground vantage points on to a blazing business fire.

The Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress at Walker Air Force Base.

The Illustrated London News 1941. World war II. Aircraft, a Hurricane in flight