13 of september 1962, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. An English Electric Lightning PB1 in the second before its destruction. Test pilot George Aird, ejected in time and survived.
Original poster “Keep Calm and Carry On” was produced in 1939
Preparing for the Second World War, in 1939 British government produced several motivation posters. This one was from a “Home Publicity” series. Others were: “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory” and “Freedom Is in Peril / Defend It With All Your Might”. Each of them had a Tudor Crown, a symbol…
Baby gas respirators in 1940
1940. The Photo is from the Imperial War Museum in London. It`s original caption says: “Three nurses carry babies cocooned in baby gas respirators down the corridor of a London hospital during a gas drill. Note the carrying handle on the respirator used to carry the baby by the nurse in the foreground”.