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Luftwaffe 1940 Stock Photos

Browse 1,030 luftwaffe 1940 photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

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

The Battle Of Britain In 1940 : Hit German Heinkel Plane.

The Battle Of Britain In 1940 : Hit German Heinkel Plane

Battle of Britain, 1940, Bomber Plane

Members of the Home Guard and local workers examine the wreckage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 of the German Luftwaffe, which was shot down in flames...

Messerschmitt 109 Shot Down

Battle of Britain, 1940, Aeroplane

The wrecked engine of a German Luftwaffe Heinkel bomber is removed from the scene after crashing in Victoria Road, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex during World...

Luftwaffe Plane Crash In Clacton

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany, 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

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. German light bomber shut down in the Channel during the summer 1940. The Battle of Britain Luftschlacht um...

Germany at war.

World War II, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Blitzkrieg. Battle of France. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka Sturzkampfflugzeug, or dive bomber was a two man,...

Germany at war.

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

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

Civilians in one of London's air raid damaged areas queuing around the Silver Lady Fund mobile canteen to receive warm food and drink before entering...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

1940, Battle of Britain, Food Truck

Swansea after three night blitz attack by the German air force. August 1940.

Swansea after three night blitz attack by the German air force

World War II, Wales

General cityscape view of the City of London, St Paul's Cathedral and the smoke from burning buildings following the German Luftwaffe blitz on the...

World War Two: Home Front 1940, The Blitz.

London - England, The Blitz, World War II

Wartime scene as Londoners seek shelter and bed down on the platform at Holborn underground station to escape from German Luftwaffe air raids during...

London During The Blitz

UK, 1940, Bomb Shelter

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

World War II Berlin, The Heinkel He III twin engined medium bomber of the German Luftwaffe air-force.

World War II, 1940, Berlin, The Heinkel He III twin engined bomber of the German air-force

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany, World War II

19th June 1940, British soldiers stand guard on a German Luftwaffe bomber shot down over eastern England as they give the "thumbs-up" sign.

World War II, pic: 19th June 1940, British soldiers stand guard on a German bomber shot down over eastern England asthey give the "thumbs-up" sign

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of Noway 1940, German infantry in action, May 15 1940.

Germany at war.

Wehrmacht, Battle, France

Soldier from the 51st Surrey Battalion Home Guard is silhouetted against the bomb shattered window of the Baptist Chapel in Kingston Road following...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

UK, Home Guard, World War II

Captured German Luftwaffe aircrew prisoners of war are escorted under British military guard through Liverpool Street Station in London on their way...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Prisoner Of War, World War II, UK

Heinkel He 111 of the German Luftwaffe on display at one of the Ministry of Aircraft Production factories during World War II, 2nd October 1940. The...

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany

September 1940, Sticks of bombs dropping from a German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 medium bomber during World War II.

World War Two: September 1940, Sticks of bombs dropping from a German Heinkel plane

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany, Bomb, Nazism

Royal Air Force Maintenance Unit personnel using a block and tackle to prepare the wreckage of a Messerschmitt BF 109E of 9 Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 3...

Messerschmitt BF 109

British Home Guard soldier looks over the wreckage of a Messerschmitt BF 109E of 7 Staffel/Jagdgeschwader 54 of the German Luftwaffe, piloted by...

Messerschmitt BF 109

german world war 2 model airplane used in dunkirk movie - luftwaffe 1940 stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

German World War 2 model airplane used in Dunkirk movie

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany, Nazism, German Culture

german world war 2 model airplane used in dunkirk movie - luftwaffe 1940 stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

German World War 2 model airplane used in Dunkirk movie

Nazism, World War II, 1940

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. War in Asia. Japanese soldiers are resting after attack.

Germany at war.

Japan, World War II, Wehrmacht

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Italy. Visit by Adolf Hitler in Florence, cheering crowd in Piazza della Signoria.

Germany at war.

World War II, Adolf Hitler, War

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Italy. Visit by Adolf Hitler in Florence, cheering crowd in Piazza della Signoria.

Visit by Adolf Hitler in Florence.

Germany, France, Fascism

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. German advanced outpost in France watching towards Dover. The Battle of Britain Luftschlacht um England, or...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Blitzkrieg. Battle of France. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka Sturzkampfflugzeug, or dive bomber was a two man,...

Germany at war.

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of the Atlantic. A cargo ship sinking in flames after being hit by torpedoes from a German submarine...

Germany at war.

Nazism, Battle of the Atlantic

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. France. Burning village after the German attack, Signal Magazine 1940.

Germany at war.

France, Village, Nazism

Germany at war, Signal magazine, Italy, 1940. Umberto II, or Humbert II Prince of Piedmont with Benito Mussolini duce of the italians at a public...

Germany at war.

Army Soldier, Nazism, 1940

Germany at war, Signal magazine, 1940. Battle of France. German infantry with light machinegun MG.

Germany at war.

Bombing attack by Nazi Luftwaffe on a British convoy in the Atlantic.

Luftwaffe Attack

Royal Navy, Navy, World War II

German Luftwaffe Junkers 88 Bomber aircraft lies in a cornfield near the North East coast of England after being brought down by a Polish plane...

Junkers 88 Bomber Aircraft In A Cornfield After Being Brought Down In World War Two

Dolphin Street following a Luftwaffe raid on Bristol. The city endured the bombing between 24 November 1940 and 11 April 1941 there were six major...

Second World War Air Raids on Bristol

German Luftwaffe fighter plane downed by the RAF and resting on the beach at Norfolk. The plane is a Messerschmitt. The Battle of Britain lasted from...

German Luftwaffe plane crew are marched through West Hoe Street, Norfolk

Dolphin Street following a raid on Bristol by the Luftwaffe. The city endured the bombing between 24 November 1940 and 11 April 1941 there were six...

Second World War Air Raids on Bristol

The bomb damaged shell of the Coliseum Theatre, Bristol, following the Luftwaffe raid on the city, circa November 1940

The Bomb Damaged Coliseum Theatre In Bristol During The Second World War

Austrian-born German politician and dictator Adolf Hitler stands with Field Marshall Keitel and other German Luftwaffe officers on a visit to an...

Onlookers including members of the Home Guard view the smouldering wreckage of a German Luftwaffe plane in a field during World War II, circa 1940.

Downed Luftwaffe Plane In Field

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany

Members of the Home Guard viewing the wing of a German Luftwaffe plane after it crashed, England, circa 1940. A man at front is crouching to put his...

Home Guard Viewing Wing Of Crashed Plane

Aeroplane, England, Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany

General view of the damage following the overnight blitz as part of the strategic bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe during World War II in...

Manchester Air Raid Damage During WWII

Bombing, Bomb Damage, 1940

View of bomb damaged buildings and a destroyed London Transport class HR2-type tram that was sheltering under the London Bridge to Waterloo station...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Civilians in one of London's air raid damages areas gather around an American YMCA-run Allied Relief Fund mobile canteen to receive warm food and...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Charity and Relief Work, Archival, World War II

Nurses and an injured patient sitting in a wheelchair pass through a bomb damaged doorway at St Thomas Hospital following a German Luftwaffe bombing...

World War Two: Home Front 1940, The Blitz

Damaged, Hospital, Bomb Damage

Civil defence firewatcher of the Air Raid Precaution of the London North Eastern Railway scans the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Battle of Britain, 1940

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

Members of the Police the Fire services and the Army inspect the wreckage of a downed German bomber which crashed onto Victoria Station London. The...

The remains of a German bomber which crashed into Victoria Station in London

Civilians and rescue workers search through the damaged houses in Liverpool following a bombing raid by the Luftwaffe. Circa 1940.

Civilians and rescue workers search bomb damaged houses in Liverpool

The Blitz, Liverpool - England, 1940

Blind children in air raid shelter in London. In September 1940 the Luftwaffe began its bombing campaign over London. For each and every person...

Blind children in air raid shelter in London

Sergeant Bohumil Votruba , Flight Lieutenant Ladislav Svetlík , Flight Lieutenant Alois Vasatko and Flight Lieutenant Jan Klan pilots of No 312...

World War Two: No.312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF

Liverpool - England, 1940

Modelmaker completes a final visual check of a model of a German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 K bomber aircraft at the Woodason Aircraft Models company...

Model Of German Heinkel Bomber

Luftwaffe - Nazi Germany

Air raid wardens and spotters on a rooftop use binoculars to scan the sky for sight of incoming German Luftwaffe bombers dropping high explosive and...

London During The Blitz

1940, London - England, Battle of Britain

Firefighters of the Auxiliary Fire Service attend the scene of a blazing building near Piccadillly, Central London, after high explosive bombs were...

Air Raid near Piccadilly, London during Blitz 1940

World War II, The Blitz, UK

Hermann Goring seated surrounded by Luftwaffe commanders, circa 1940s. .

Hermann Goering

Woman exits her taxi outside the Barbican Centre in London, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. In 1940, it was a warren of Dickensian streets, wrecked in one...

A woman exits her taxi outside the Barbican Centre in London

Man reads outside the Barbican Centre in London, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. In 1940, it was a warren of Dickensian streets, wrecked in one night of...

A man reads outside the Barbican Centre in London, Friday, F

World War II. German airplane Messerschmitt Me-262, first hunter and jet hunter-bomber that made its inaugural flight on July 18, 1942 and was used...

World War II. German airplane

Aeroplane, World War II

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