New archive photos are up on a heritage web site, taken by US army forces.

Black and white photographs of England as it changed during the second world war are being made available to the public for the first time.

The 3,600 images include pictures of bomb damage in Manchester, ancient monuments surrounded by anti-tank defences in West Sussex, and troops at play at a US army camp in Wiltshire. There are aerial photos of Buckland Dinham and of the area around Odd Down.

They were taken by US army air forces (USAAF) photographic reconnaissance units.

Over two million American servicemen passed through Britain during the war, In 1944, at the height of activity, up to half a million were here and the air force job was to man and maintain the vast fleets of aircraft needed to attack German cities and industry

The collection is available to view via a searchable map on the Historic England archive.

One photo already in that archive is of the Midsomer Norton South Station taken from a postcard looking towards Templecombe between 1915 and 1930.