 During the Second World War he served as Pilot Officer Gould in R.A.F.Intelligence, first in Egypt from 1941 to 1943 and then in Normandy, France.In early 1945 he was transferred to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies, which was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II.