The Woolworths Virtual Museum 1940s Gallery - our finest hour

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 Xmas 1939: UK and USA a world apart 

Soldiers march past a Woolworths store in the 1940s in this rare colour footage

History in the making - a Woolies colleague has a defiant message for the newsreels in World War II

Blitzed - it's for real, a Woolies burns to the ground in 1941
Click here to view the exhibit Fire from the sky - Blitz hits major cities
Click here to view the exhibit Woolies buy two Spitfires for the RAF

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 Occupied by the Nazis - Jersey and Guernsey
Click here to view the exhibit Farewell 3d and 6d - hello rationing
Click here to view the exhibit "They also serve" - home front defiance
Click here to view the exhibit A taste of home - US forces discover FWW UK
Click here to view the exhibit German "V" weapons and our darkest hour
Click here to view the exhibit War dead - our colleague Roll of Honour
Click here to view the exhibit Reconstruction and post-war austerity
Click here to view the exhibit Price quiz - dateline 1949