The 3,600 images include shots of bomb damage to towns and cities such as at Old Trafford football stadium in Salford, Greater Manchester, as well as ancient monuments surrounded by anti-tank defences in West Sussex, and troops at play at a US army camp in Wiltshire.
They were taken by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) photographic reconnaissance units, stationed at bases across England in 1943 and 1944, after the US joined the war in December 1941.
Damage to the main stand of Old Trafford is seen after it was hit in a bombing raid in March 1941. It was not used again for football until 1949. In another picture, taken through a break in the clouds, the Eighth Air Force B-17 bombers are seen flying over the Brecks area of Norfolk.
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