This is a picture of my Father Selmer Kalen on the left and his brother Sylvester Kalen who was in the Army. 

Brothers in Arms

Epsom (Mounted) Home Guard troop, 1942 - another group of night patrollers.  The date of 1942, well after the end of the invasion scare, is a bit odd.  So is the location - perhaps.  Epsom, even in 1942, was a semi-suburbanized area close to London.  One imagine that the experience of both the patrollers and the patrolees in this environment would have been mixed.  However, Epsom was (and is) quite a wealthy area, with strong "horsey" connections, so I suppose they knew what they were doing.  Good fun, no doubt, anyway ... Best regards, JR.

Epsom Mounted Home Guard, 1942.

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California. Photographed in October, 1942.