File:RG-208-AA-158-I-001.tif

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English: The relief of the Channel Islanders

This photograph taken by a Ministry of Food photographer on May 16 just after the people of Guernsey and Sark had received their first provisions since 1940. After June 6 all German supplied food for the islands ceased too and the Germans at once killed off livestock and eat the islanders seed potatoes. Vegetables became more and more scarce. In Guernsey a communal feeding centre was established to which everyone brought whatever they could, soup was made in bathtubs and sold at 15¢ a quart. On liberation day, the relief ship arrived loaded down with a cargo of food, transport and military equipment. In 1942 the Germans deported all Britishers not born in the Islands, about 2000 to Germany. Another 20000 were evacuated to England in June 1940, just before the Germans landed. Now for the first time in 5 years, telegraph services have been restored and there is a rush to let their friends and relatives to know they are alright.

Picture shows: Telegram being sent from the Post Office in Guernsey for the first time in 5 years.
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Public domain This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. See Copyright.

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