Wartime Studies Gifts

King George VI

"I'm hungry."

FDR

Sir Winston Churchill

Physicists disputing whether the clock moves backwards or forwards according to season change.

Kidnapping Lord Haw-Haw

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

"You can let that go till later, Harris."

Napoleon marches off alone

"Mrs. Barnes is to have a complete head-to-toe – she's to be the victim in a bandage-instruction class."

Barack Obama.

Your Country Needs MOO!

General's Coin Toss

"Mother, I'd like you to meet a member of the armed forces."

'These days,' she says, 'nothing gets a rise out of him.'

Tea and Sugar Rationing

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

'And remind your father to take out the chicken from the freezer and don't forget to do your homework.'

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

For the War Inventions Board. The Armoured Bayonet-curler for the Spoiling the Temper of the Enemy's Steel

The unknown soldier: war grave.

British patent (applied for) A Trained Dog of war Drawing the Enemy's Fire.

"Well, thats buggered that idea"

Charles de Gaulle

"Well, then why don't the British just borrow Major Eliot from the Herald Tribune."

"We didn't have telly in wartime, we had to make our own violence."

"It's blank because we haven't found a new war yet."

Soldiers

Young John McCain, Meet Old John McCain

Union Troops Foraging for Supplementary Rations in Louisiana

Wilfred Owen

"... and so, gentlemen, I have to report that, despite the not inconsiderable complications and burdens presented by the war, the income of the North American Broadcasting Company showed a net increase of two per cent."

"Why don't you join the Army."

A clever ruse. How two German officers carried a gun past the British lines.

Mine and Countermine