Pictures range from women making cannon shells in Merseyside to T-class submarine crews playing cards
Another image shows an 18-year-old from a small engineering company firing a three-inch mortar in Cornwall
Images such as these are so rare because Kodachrome was in very short supply during World War Two
Set, known as TR Series , included in new book from Imperial War Museums called Britain At War In Colour
Imperial War Museum to open extensive new galleries this autumn
Alex Green, PA Entertainment Reporter
6 May 2021, 10:19 pm
The Imperial War Museum in London will open new galleries in the autumn documenting the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The £30.7 million project will open on October 2021 with the director-general of the Imperial War Museums (IWM) describing it as “almost seven years in the making”.
With more than 1,500 items, and personal stories from more than 80 countries, the Second World War galleries will show the reach of the global conflict.
In the Holocaust galleries, a section of concentration camp barracks will go on public display for first time in the UK.
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Plus, the Wexner Center for the Arts nabs a top curator from Dia, and the Uffizi opens a blockbuster show about the life of Dante.
An empty frame remains where Rembrandt s
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was once displayed. Picture provided by the FBI showing the empty frames for missing paintings after the theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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MIAMI – Today in Aviation, the first regular jet flight, a de Havilland Comet, left London in 1952 with 36 passengers on board bound for Johannesburg, South Africa. The flight was operated by BOAC, the first airline to introduce a passenger jet into commercial service.
The Comet, designated G-ALYP by BOAC, flew at 450-500 mph at 35-40,000 feet, covering 6,700 miles in 23 hours and 20 minutes, with stops in Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe, and Livingstone. The return flight to London took place three days later, on May 5, 1952.
The flight to Johannesburg lasted 18 hours and 40 minutes. An alternative route that bypassed Beirut and went via Cairo cut the total distance by 450 miles and the travel time by an hour.
The War Rooms: Jenna Coleman Set to Play Real-Life Miss Moneypenny
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The War Rooms, a real-life drama about the woman who led Winston Churchill s secret Whitehall bunker and the inspiration for Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond stories.
The series will explore the untold story of the women who lived, loved, and triumphed in Winston Churchill s secret Whitehall bunker.
Bright was a former girlfriend of James Bond author
Ian Fleming and was thought to be one of the inspirations behind Miss Moneypenny. Her memoir
The Inner Circle: A View of War at the Top has been optioned for the series. She was more than just a secretary. She was effectively a spymistress running the room that coordinated operations. The TV series is created by