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1940 War Stock Photos

Browse 27,820 1940 war photos and images available, or search for 1940 war ship to find more great photos and pictures.

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Dunkirk Retreat.

World War II, Helmet, Dunkirk - France

1920s italian soldier portrait - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian soldier portrait

Army Soldier, Archival, Retro Style

three old british telegrams - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Three old British telegrams

1940, Telegram - Telegraph Message, History

battlefield. - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

World War II, 1940, War

World War II. Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler , in Paris, on the esplanade of the Chaillot palace, with the architect Albert Speer , the sculptor Arno...

Hitler In Paris

Adolf Hitler, Paris - France, Nazism

British soldiers on leave, queuing outside Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane ground, London, before a match between Arsenal and Chelsea, 23rd March...

Servicemen At White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur F.C., White Hart Lane, 1940

Readers choosing books which are still intact among the charred timbers of the Holland House library, London, 23rd October 1940.

London - England, Book, 1940

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of Noway, German infantry ready to enmabrk on Junkers 52 airplanes, May 15 1940.

Germany at war.

World War II, Wehrmacht, Germany

Factory workers at Vickers Supermarine Works, Southampton drilling parts for the Spitfire, one of the RAF's fighter planes.

Spitfire, Factory, Southampton - England

View of bomb damaged buildings and a destroyed London Transport SLT AEC Regent 1 double decker bus in High Hoborn following an air raid by the German...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

London - England, World War II, Bombing

1920s italian soldier portrait - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian soldier portrait

1940, War, Photography

American-born French entertainer Josephine Baker performs for troops at the British Leave Club at the Hotel Moderne in Paris, World War II, May 1940.

Josephine Baker Entertains Troops

Josephine Baker, 1940

To London' sign being removed from a signpost in a Surrey village as part of British anti-invasion preparations in response to the threat of invasion...

They Went That Way

World War II, Road Sign, Preparation

The main dining room. 7th November 1940, The new Communal Feeding Centre in Byrom Street, Liverpool, which is to be opened by Lord Woolton on the...

Communal Feeding Centre, Liverpool, 1940

1940, UK, People

Bus is left leaning against the side of a terrace in Harrington Square, Mornington Crescent, in the aftermath of a German bombing raid on London in...

London - England, War, The Blitz

military running in sepia tones - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Military running in sepia tones

World War II, Army Soldier, 1940

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of France. German infantry marching on the sand at Duquerque or Dunkirk. The Battle of Dunkirk was an...

Germany at war.

Dunkirk Evacuation, Dunkirk - France, Battle

The Royal Navy Town-class Light Cruiser HMS Sheffield from the 18th Cruiser Squadron of the Home Fleet armed with 12 × 6-inch Mk XXIII guns mounted...

World War Two: War at Sea 1940

Norway, 1940, Sheffield

Benito Mussolini on the balcony of Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 24, June 16, 1940.

Benito Mussolini on balcony of Palazzo Venezia

Benito Mussolini, 1940, Speech

Royal Air Force Blenheim MkIF light bomber L6670 from No211 Squadron RAF coming in to land at Menidi airfield near Athens in north-western Greece...

World War Two: Europe 1940

Artillery gunners from the Italian XXV Army Corps loading and firing their Cannone da 105/28 Modello 12 medium gun at Greek army positions on the...

World War Two: The Balkans 1940

Greece, War, Military Invasion

Crater made by a bomb which was dropped and exploded outside Buckingham Palace, London, 14th September, 1940

A crater made by a bomb which was dropped and exploded outside Buckingham Palace, London, 14th September, 1940

Buckingham Palace, Bombing, World War II

a black and white photo of an armed soldier - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

A black and white photo of an armed soldier

Armed Forces, Photography, Retro Style

Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940.

Bus Station with Sign "Colored Waiting Room", Durham, North Carolina, USA, Jack Delano, Office of War Information, May 1940

Segregation, Bus, World War II

London in flames during the Luftwaffe bombings, United Kingdom, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVII, No 37, September 15, 1940.

London in flames during Luftwaffe bombings

World War II, London - England, Bombing

British & French troops waiting on the dunes at Dunkirk during the Dunkirk evacuation, 26th May-4th June 1940.

Dunkirk Evacuation

Dunkirk Evacuation

Ships carrying members of the BEF leaving Dunkirk during the evacuation of British troops.

Evacuation Ships

Dunkirk Evacuation, 1940, World War II

advancing infantry. - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Advancing Infantry.

World War II, Black And White, Army Soldier

View of bomb damaged buildings, destroyed motor cars and a London Transport AEC Regent III RT double decker bus on Portman Street following an air...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

London - England, The Blitz, Bombing

1920s italian soldier portrait - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian soldier portrait

Portrait, Old-fashioned, Archival

1920s italian soldier portrait - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian soldier portrait

Photography, Archival, Armed Forces

Landgirls working in the beet fields of Lincolnshire during World War II.

Working, Women, Only Women

Scottish soldiers keeping a low profile while on a training exercise.

People queuing to buy oranges and bananas at a stall in bomb-wrecked London, during the Blitz, 23rd November 1940. A sign on the stall reads:...

Business As Usual

World War II, London - England, War

Indian pilots during Royal Air Force training at an RAF Station during the Second World War, in Scotland, United Kingdom, 18th November 1940.

World War II - Training Indian Pilots

World War II, Air Force, War

British Submarine moves through icy East Coast waters. June 1940.

A British Submarine moves through icy East Coast waters

Children play on a makeshift swing amid bombed buildings. Circa 1940.

Children play on a makeshift swing amid bombed buildings

The Blitz, Child, Playing

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an influential English author and journalist, c. 1940. Cassowary Colorizations .

UK/Britain: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 Ð 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an influential English author and journalist, c. 1940. Cassowary Colorizations (CC BY 2.0 License)

Savoia-Marchetti SM79 Sparviero three-engined medium bombers of the Regia Aeronautica release their payload of bombs during an attack on the city of...

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero

Bomber Plane, World War II

Evacuee schoolboys from the Five Ways Grammer School in Birmingham at work digging potatoes for the Dig for Victory campaign on 10th July 1940 at a...

Dig for Victory

UK, Agriculture, People

Group of men playing cards in an air raid shelter during the Blitz, London, October 1940. Original Publication: Picture Post - 308 - Shelter Life -...

Sitting Out The Blitz

Bomb Shelter, World War II, Playing Card

Pupils at a camp school for evacuated co-eds during World War II, UK, October 1940.

Camp School For Evacuees

World War II, War, 1940

Convalescent servicemen exercising with a game of bowls during World War II, UK, September 1940.

Combatting Convalescent Boredom

Recovery, World War II, War

Hitler In Paris, June 1940. The surrender agreement was signed June 22 at Compiegne. Hitler visits Paris for a tour, drives down the Champs Elysee...

Hitler In Paris 1940

Adolf Hitler, Paris - France, France

Italian soldiers on a train leaving for the front, a soldier kisses his son, June 1940, Italy, World War II, 20th century.

Italian soldiers on train leaving for front

1940, Italy, World War II

Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Elizabeth as Junior Commander in the ATS inspecting The Motor Transport Training Centre at Camberley, Surrey...

Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Elizabeth as Junior Commander in the ATS inspecting The Motor Transport Training Centre at

Elizabeth II, War, Uniform

Finnish-Soviet Winter War, November1939-March1940: A Finnish radio reporter with a gun and a microphone during coverage of the front -...

Finnish-Soviet Winter War, November1939-March1940: A Finnish radio reporter with a gun and a microphone during coverage of the front - January/February 1940 - Photographer: Presse-Illustrationen Heinrich Hoffmann Vintage property of ullstein bild

Finland, War, Former Soviet Union

Finnish troops wearing gas masks during the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland, circa 1940.

Finland, War, Former Soviet Union

This undated file picture taken in the 1940's shows Princess Elizabeth changing the wheel of a military vehicle during the World War II, in an...

UK-WWII-ROYALS-ELIZABETH

Uniform, Princess

Queen Elizabeth chats with a girl 18 April 1940 when she visits an ammunition factory somewhere in Midlands. It was in the summer of 1940, during the...

Queen Elizabeth (R) chats with a girl 18 April 194

Archival, Visit

Milkman delivering milk in a street, devastated in a German bombing raid, in the Holborn area of London, 9th October 1940. Firemen are dampening down...

Delivery After Raid

World War II, 1940, The Blitz

The Battle Of Britain 1940, Operations: Two Dornier 17 bombers over West Ham, London, 7th September 1940.

German Bombers Over London

World War II, 1940, London - England

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler posing in front of the Eiffel Tower during a visit to Paris the day after the French surrender and the signing of the Second...

Hitler In Paris

Adolf Hitler, Paris - France, Colour Image

Damage to the House of Commons after night bombings by the Germans. December 1940.

Damage to the House of Commons after night bombings by the Germans

London - England, London Blitz, World War II

Adolf Hitler with Albert Speer in Paris, after the German occupation of northern France, June 1940.

Hitler In Paris

Paris - France, Nazism, Military Invasion

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in a BBC studio announcing the declaration of war.

Telling The Country

Neville Chamberlain, War, World War II

Russian soldier frozen to death minutes after being shot by a Finnish sniper.

Frozen To Death

Winter, War, Finland

battle of britain. - 1940 war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Battle of Britain.

1940, Army Soldier, Battle of Britain

Soviet-finnish war, 1939-1940, a soviet machine-gun crew, using maxim machine-guns, supporting advancing infantry, a still from the newsreel...

Soviet-finnish war, 1939-1940, a soviet machine-gun crew, using maxim machine-guns, supporting advancing infantry, a still from the newsreel documentary film, 'mannerheim line'.

War, Winter, Former Soviet Union

Finnish Ski Troops In Soviet Finnish War

Finnish Ski Troops In Soviet Finnish War

Finland, War, Winter

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