Karl Doenitz (1891-1980) Nationality: German [img] Senior position: Commander-In-Chief German Navy. Final rank: Admiral. Doenitz...
A portrait taken by the Daily Mail in 1944 of a blockade buster, James Edward Conway, of the Gay Corsair, one of the British merchant ships that...
Why Britain's Achievements Astounded the World During WWII In the sixth year of hostilities, Britain's War Cabinet has made possible the world...
For Four Years The Germans Tried To Catch Me... Emile Declercq, 23-year-old son of a Belgian grain merchant, was known to the Germans as a...
For every British ship's company afloat in 1944 as many men again were busy in the docks at home. Despite blackout raids and other hindrances,...
Pursuing a new air attack technique, Allied bombers in the South-West pacific were increasing their toll of Japanese merchant vessels and...
Role Heavy fighter / strike aircraft Manufacturer Bristol Aeroplane Company First flight 17 July 1939 Introduction 27 July 1940 Retired...
The members of the U.S. Merchant Marine were civilians, paid by their civilian employers, and had their own union of seamen to negotiate for...
In Britain’s shipyards women and girls were greatly contributing to the high-speed production of merchant vessels. These photos were taken at a...
This story is as first told to the War Illustrated in August 1942. A six day battle against attacking planes recently fought by one of the...
A torpedo fresh from the factory being manoeuvred into position for loading into one of the British submarines. The torpedo proved to be one of...
Third Officer Joe Wharton left New York with the British merchant ship Empire Mersey, as part of Convoy SC104. His ship encountered U-618 in the...
For Maurice Tither VRD, a Sub-Lieutenant telegraphist on HMS Shearwater, a corvette in E-Boat Alley, (Channel and east coast of UK), Christmas...
The merchant services of the Allied nations contained some of the greatest unsung heroes of World War II. Repeatedly they faced death as they...
A Merchant Ship is nearing completion on the stocks and was soon be launched from one of Britain's yards. Speaking at Liverpool on March 22 1941,...
Rt. Hon. Ronald Hibbert Cross, P.C M.P was born in 1896 and was an old Etonian. After service in the Great War in the Duke of Lancaster's Own...
This small British merchant ship was among those in a convoy shelled in the Straits of Dover for the first time by long range German guns from the...
Late in the night of April 30/May 1, 1940, a German Heinkel III bomber was heard circling low over the town of Clacton-on-Sea. It had been...
Naval officers and ratings were detailed to instruct the crews of merchant ships in gunnery, and found them apt and eager pupils. The proper way...
A Lockhead Bomber is seen being unloaded from a British merchant ship which had arrived from America. The wings have been removed to facilitate...