Britain prepares for war:

4.5 inch howitzer of "D" troop, 346th Battery, 87th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, dug in and camouflaged "somewhere in England", 16th July 1940.
taken from fb/France and Flanders Campaign 1940

Homeland defense

Residents of the small Dutch town of Aalst pose with the Irish guardsmen in front of an M4 Sherman tank and a Universal  armored personnel carrier. 

Townfolks and visitors

British soldiers are riding a captured German BMW R-12 motorcycle in the area of ​​Tobruk, Libya, North Africa. 
