#home front

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Churchill vs anti-tank ditch at an angle.

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Life in wartime, 1942.

Photo: Fred Stein via fredstein.com

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Female worker inspects .50 BMG Ammunition at the Kelly Springfield, Allegany Ordnance Plant in Cumberland, Maryland - 1943

This ordnance plant was operated by the Kelly Springfield Tire Company, ammunition manufactured here had a headstamp of “KS”

LIFE Magazine Archives - Gordon Coster Photographer WWP-PD

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"Have friends over often these war days. Serve them low-ration-point dishes like these, and moderate glasses of good wine. Such simple foods become "company fare" when made and served with wine" (1943)

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In a Bomb Factory, Bert Hardy, 1941

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Men from the 8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (Territorial Army) take a break from a training exercise - England 1939. They would later form part of first, the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) and finally from 1940, the Home Guard

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'Just Like Daddy' – Manchester – Angleterre – 1940's

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U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift in Memory of Maurice T. White, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum 

Description: Five Sherman tanks with their crews; posing for photo during training maneuvers. "3-28-44. Zoff. 3rd Platoon, Co. C, 710th Tank Bn. grouped for picture near bivouac area Camp Cooke, California. 168-L-44-1056." Army Signal Corps photograph. Photographer: Zoff. Camp Cooke, California. 28 March 1944

(via Five Sherman tanks with their crews at Camp Cooke, California on 28 March 1944. | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories)

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B-17G Flying Fortress makes a gentle wheels-up landing

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Image: IWM (Q 30912) A female horse trainer pictured with a horse harness.

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With the country now at war, Mayor LaGuardia launched a city campaign to conserve water. This was one of a number of ads (for the subway, presumably) designed by Earl Kerkam, ca. 1942.

Photo: LMPC/Getty Images/Zazzle

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I love when Peter has these little serious moments ~<3

This particular dialogue hit very close to home for me, so I decided to take a few hours today and do some rough acting practice with it.

The audio clip is from ZombiesRun "The Home Front Ep 12"

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Tanks at Newcastle, John Lavery, c1917.

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United States Steel Corp, 1942

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A soldier looking at a mirror with a sign reading "IF YOU TALK TOO MUCH, THIS MAN MAY DIE". at Camp Hood, Texas in January 1943. The sign was placed there to encourage people to not spread information that might be sensitive in the War effort during World War II.

Credit: Rishi Colors

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