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An Auxiliary Territorial Service ‘spotter’ scans the skies at a 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun site in December 1942. This image is among a collection of rare colour photographs taken during the Second World War and now released for public publication for the first time by the Imperial War Museum.

You can see these extraordinary images, taken by official photographers, in The Second World War in Colour, a new book published by the Imperial War Museum.