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MPX5135205: Ranger training preparing US troops for the invasion of Europe during the Second World War. Staff Sergeant Jim Heacock, garret Hill, PA grapples unarmed with bayonet equipped Staff Sergeant Ton Nelly, Yardly, PA as American troops in England go through intensive tactical training exercises in England. 19th April 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135209: American soldiers, farmers in peacetime, take a week's course in wartime farming in Devonshire, arranged by Devon WAEC. At 8th century Dartington Hall, near Totnes, the US soldiers study agricultural methods during their leave. Here they are pictured in discussion with eighteen year old Sybil Crook during a milking session. 6th March 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5135220: Mr Brian Holland, a director of Rainbow Casino, Birmingham, with the flagpole he is not allowed to erect. The planning committee turned down the application to put it up after residents had protested the scheme was inappropriate in a residential area. 1st March 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images