Waiting for the Sea Lion
 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill poses with a borrowed Tommy gun, July 1940. German propaganda used that photo to portray Churchill as a Chicago style gangster. Churchill probably enjoyed that. |
 The picture taken just before the famous one. This shows Churchill somewhat delicately borrowing the weapon during a visit to Yorkshire at the end of July 1940. Notice how the people surrounding him disappeared rather smartish after he got hold of it*. |
 Local Defence Volunteers (as the Home Guard was originally called) on parade. Note that not all have even the LDV armband, far less any other equipment. |
 Signposts being removed to confuse any invading unit which had forgotten to bring a road map |
 Instructions issued to British civilians in the event of an invasion |
 Men of the Local Defence Volunteers (the Home Guard before being renamed) practice shooting down an unfortunate RAF Anson |
 Churchill during a visit to Yorkshire in July 1940 at a Home Guard road block (and under fire from small children) |
 Barbed wire keeps two little girls from making sandcastles on the beach. |
 Mass producing Molotov cocktails for the Home Guard, August 1940 |
 A Home Guard detachment ambush a regular army vehicle at a road junction. Note the sandbagged emplacement to the right of the car. |
 A makeshift road block in Northumberland, doubtless causing more disruption to locals than it would to any invading army |
 Members of the Home Guard being shown how a grenade works |
 A Home Guard Lewis gunner in the Highlands of Scotland |
 Some of the thousands of German and Italian nationals interned by Britain after the fall of France. These included Nazis, anti-Nazis and refugees from the Nazis. |
 The Duke of Windsor - Britain's ex-king - inspecting a Nazi guard of honour at Hitler's villa in Bavaria in 1938. The Nazis saw him as a likely quisling after an invasion. |
 A barge being converted into a landing ship |
