2-703-364 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'In An Anti-Aircraft Gun-Pit', 17 October 1941, (1945). British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits London anti-aircraft batteries jointly manned by men and women during World War Two. Female members of the ATS Auxiliary Territorial Service are working rangefinders as practice aircraft approach in a training exercise. An officer points towards the planes. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]