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‘Let Us Go Forward Together’: The United States Air Force in Britain

The crew of 'Ragin' Red', a United States heavy bomber, sorting out their kit after landing. IWM EA 11269A   Last month the American Air Museum (AAM) Research Group sat around a meeting table at IWM...

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Reviewing First World War studies with Australian colleagues

One of the disinterred soldiers from the Pheasant Wood mass grave being carried for burial in the new CWGC Cemetery at Fromelles, 22 February 2010' IWM: Damon Cleary As a Collaborative Doctoral Award...

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Cataloguing IWM medical collections

A photograph of and letter from Nursing Sister D M L Crewdson (August 1918) about the award of her Military Medal. IWM DOCS 62/135/1 One of the most rewarding aspects of my work since I joined the...

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Saving Lives

  William Davey in uniform while serving with the Dragoon Guards. (Papers of W Davey, Documents 62/179/1) As part of a major project supported by the Wellcome Trust, I catalogued some of the IWM’s...

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Restoring the First World War film The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the...

The Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks (1917) is a little known masterpiece of British non-fiction cinema that documents the winter stages of the Somme campaign on the Western Front. The...

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Guest Post: South Asian seamen in the two world wars

India 1944: Three stokers of the Royal Indian Navy on the mess deck of the sloop HMIS SUTLEJ. IWM IB 1558 Ansar Ahmed Ullah, a member of the Swadhinata Trust, is one of three external specialist...

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Guest post: The Fortieth Anniversary of The World at War

Image of German troops advancing on the Russian army. Image courtesy of Fremantle Media. Our guest blogger Taylor Downing is a historian and writer whose best selling books include works on the Second...

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The World During the First World War

Herrenhausen Gardens, Hannover. The venue for the conference ‘The World During the First World War’. Image courtesy of Anna Maguire. One of IWM’s new Collaborative Doctoral Award Students, Anna...

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IWM Short Film Festival 2014

Filmmaking in IWM’s collections: stripped to the waist, Sergeant Basil Wishart of No 9 Army Film and Photo Section films Indian troops crossing a river near Meiktila, Burma in 1945. © IWM SE5423 On a...

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Suffering and survival: the captive body during the Second World War

Stanley Gimson, Kanyu Riverside Camp: Dysentery Ward (1943) © IWM (Art.IWM ART 16893) Throughout Southeast Asia during the Second World War, tropical diseases ravaged the bodies of those held by...

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Remembering Far East Captivity and the Aftermath: 70 Years On

Special guests at June’s conference: former POWs (from bottom right: George Reynolds, Tom Boardman and Bob Hucklesby); FEPOW widow (Merle Hesp); and former internees (from top left: internees Els and...

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