... severe bomb damage. St. Andrew's, which has been a symbol of the city's life for over 500 years, was left a shell by the Second World War. Between destruction and reconstruction it became a garden church, with flowers blooming and garden seats set out by ...

... high-level bombers on the run up to their targets. It would be their task to protect a whole fleet. THE BATTLESHIP OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR MAY GIVE PLACE TO A TYPE DESIGNED FOR A MORE DEFENSIVE ROLE-- A DIAGRAMMATIC SKETCH SHOWING AIRCRAFT ARMAMENT WHICH MAY ...

... fell in action, are tin foremost of the many responsibilities which the British Legion*has under taken since 192 1. The second World War has added materially to this great work. Annual expenditure is rapidly increasing, and an appeal is earnestly made for ...

... back where we started. Because the pin-up girl, whether you like her or not, is here to stay. jkL 4 The Thirties 5 The Second World War jf w 6 Miss 1955 ...

... post-war costume. They went long again in the early thirties and did not become short once more until the eve of the second World War. They were violently denounced by religious and moral leaders, as Fashion's extremes always are, but with the usual result ...

... yearning for adventure. I think soldiering is my real profession, he said a view reinforced by his activities in the Second World War, when he commanded the only armoured unit in the Home Guard. From 1919 to 1926 he published songs, poems and produced ...

... was in a very run-down condition when the tremendous demand was made on home agriculture to feed the nation during the Second World War. Not only were the buildings and other fixed equipment in a neglected condition they were ill-suited to an agriculture ...

... fell in action, are the foremost of the many responsibilities which the British Legion has under taken since 192 1. The second World War has added materially to this great work. Annual expenditure is rapidly increasing, and an appeal is earnestly made for ...

... true tradition of the public Press of this land; it was in harmony with the conduct of many soldier-newspaper-men in the second World War who (within my own knowledge) gave up their more-than-deserved leave while in far-off places to help produce Army newspapers ...

... blueprint of the set-up if we all have to face up to the reality of a failure of the three Great Powers left over from the Second World War to agree on fundamentals if we have to pre pare for a new eventual war as realistically we ought to have pre pared for ...

... numbers of them acquired for it a taste which they brought back with them when they returned. Rise and Fall During the Second World War, wine in England became scarcer and scarcer. Stocks held by wine merchants and shippers dwindled rapidly, and after the ...

... the present Food Ministry, first framed in 1936, was estab lished and ready to operate just after the outbreak of the second World War. Its chief stock-in-trade were detailed schemes for controlling all vital foodstuffs, and 45 million ration-books stored ...