A Goodbye Kiss. 19-year old actress Martha O’Driscoll (1922-1998) kisses a soldier goodbye in Los Angeles, 1941.

Support the war effort

Members of the Port of London Authority Police, in life jackets, doing a drill, practicing ... er ... jumping off a pier into a dock basin, 1930s.  Being competent at doing this would, no doubt, be very useful in the event of a bad fire breaking out - or in the event of a bombing raid ... JR. 

Prepared for anything ...

The British mentality during the summer of 1940