Imperial War Museum, London--Part II

There was a maze in the basement that took one through both WWI and WWII. We spent a good bit of time in the WWI exhibit as we didn't know much about it, compared to WWII.

There were display cases about many different aspects of the war. This was part of one about protective gear, both German and British. That's some kind of gas mask.

A scene from trench life. There would be three trenches: a front line trench, a supply trench and a recovery trench. I believe this scene would have been in the recovery trench, the furthest from the front line. Communication passages linked the trenches. There were signs "Do Not Leave the Trenches in Daylight."


We did go through a bit of the WWII exhibit. Here is an Enigma machine, the German encoder/decoder broken by the Allies.

Fred posing by the guns outside the Museum (see pic below) to show scale. We had lunch ("jacket potatos") at a park stand near the museum.