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Two girls on the south coast of England look out toward the beach through a barbed wire fence constructed as part of Britain's coastal defences.
The artist Ethel Gabain, newly appointed by the Ministry of Information to make historical war pictures, at work among bombed ruins in the East End of London on November 28, 1940.
A forward machine gunner sits at his battle position in the nose of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber, while en route to England in November of 1940.
A boy sits amid the ruins of a London bookshop following an air raid on October 8, 1940, reading a book titled "The History of London."