The issue is devoted to various aspects of life in Great Britain during the Second World War.




A Southern League football match between Charleston Athletic and Chelsea.
Fans in the stands of the stadium.
The referee conducts the toss.
General Eisenhower's face.
The captains of the teams shake hands before the match.
Fragments of the football match.
The score on the scoreboard is 3:1 in favor of Charleston.
Eisenhower hands the cup to the captain of Charleston.
The players of the winning team leave the field with the cup.
An airplane over the airfield.
British military personnel at the airfield awaiting the arrival of Churchill W. British Prime Minister Churchill gets off the plane.
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King at the airfield after arriving for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in May 1944. Mackenzie King delivers a welcoming speech at the airfield (synchronously, in English).
The plane after landing.
Meeting the Prime Minister of South Africa Jan Smuts at the plane.
Jan Smuts delivers a speech in microphone giving a welcoming speech (synchronously, in English.
New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser getting off the plane.
Fraser approaches the microphone and delivers a welcoming speech (synchronously, in English).
The plane after landing at the airport.
Faces of those meeting it.
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin descends the stairs from the plane.
John Curtin delivers a welcoming speech (synchronously, in English).
Jan Smuts arriving at Downing Street.
A calendar with the date 1 May.
A writing set on the table.
The prime ministers of the Commonwealth member states at the table during the conference.
Churchill's face.
View of Downing Street Park.
John Curtin talking to British Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Conference participants discussing current issues in the fresh air.
Churchill talking to conference participants.
Jan Smuts talking to one of the conference participants.
Faces of conference participants talking to each other.
A group photo of the conference participants.
Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir Hari Singh poses for a photograph with other conference participants.
The Military Academy building.
Preparing exhibits for an exhibition at the academy.
Exhibition workers hang paintings on the wall.
An artist puts the finishing touches.
Senior British officers enter the exhibition.
Visitors and guests arrive for the opening of the exhibition.
View of one of the exhibition halls.
Portrait of General Montgomery.
Portrait of one of the admirals.
Visitors in one of the exhibition halls.
Portraits of British statesmen and members of the royal family.
Sculptural portraits of British military personnel presented at the exhibition.
Putting out a fire after a German plane crash at night.
Firefighters examine the wreckage of the plane.
A German pilot's cap in the hands of one of the firefighters.
Representatives of the military police interrogate a captured German pilot on the spot.
The face of a German pilot.
The German pilot chews the bread offered to him, talks to the police.
A one-story building on the territory of the Churchill House language school.
Churchill and his wife arrive at the school.
Interiors of the school's living quarters, demonstration of the functionality of the wardrobes.
Kitchen interior and household appliances.
Gas stove with oven.
Installation of a folding table.
View of one of the school's residential buildings.
Panorama of the site with equipment and cargo for various purposes.
Stacking bales.
Freight railway cars at a junction station.
Transportation of cargo to storage facilities.
Panorama of part of the warehouses.
Stacking boxes inside one of the warehouses.
Boxes inside the warehouse.
Views of the vehicle storage area.
Rows of military vehicles on the site.
Artillery guns on the site.
Soldiers cover one of the guns.
Air defense firing position on the territory of the warehouses.
Transportation of tanks on trailer trucks.
Transportation of disassembled aircraft.
A truck platform transports aerial bombs.
Stacking aerial bombs.
A soldier counts the torpedoes stored in the warehouse.
Disassembled aircraft on the site.
Assembled aircraft on the airfield.
Aircraft with removed propellers and detached wings on the storage site.
Eisenhower Dwight David - American statesman and political figure
military leader Churchill Winston Leonard Spencer -- British statesman
politician and military leader Mackenzie King William Lyon -- Canadian statesman and politician Attlee Clement Richard -- British statesman and politician Smuts Jan Christian -- South African statesman and military leader Fraser Peter -- New Zealand statesman and politician Curtin John -- Australian statesman and politician Singh Hari -- Indian statesman
1944
London UK
Summer Spring