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Home Fires Photos and captions of civilians at work and play at a time the world was at war. Scrap metal drives, victory gardens, air wardens, war workers, families.

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An English aircraft spotter on watch during the Blitz
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An English air-raid shelter
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English children in an "S" trench during a bombing raid
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With eyes toward the sky civilians brace for an air raid on Bilbao, Spain
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An 88 Flak crew, Hamburg 1944
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The determination is apparent on the faces of these London firefighters during the Blitz
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Volksturm-Germany, 1945

I suspect this might not be a period photograph, but not sure.
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An 88 Flak crew, Hamburg 1944
Were the front 3 civilians? There seems to be no kind of rank or ID of any kind.
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An 88 Flak crew, Hamburg 1944
Were the front 3 civilians? There seems to be no kind of rank or ID of any kind.
Good eye, Horch. My guess is this is a scratch crew cobbled from anyone available.
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Russian civilians dig an anti-tank ditch at Kursk while a Soviet military band plays
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