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People gather to watch the Epstein's huge stone statue of Adam in Blackpool, England.

The Epstein's huge stone statue of Adam in Blackpool, England. People gather inside a building. The statue of Adam in the building. People looking at the statue and discussing. Officials standing around the statue.

Date: 1939, July 26
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076324
Crowds and American soldiers talk to young British women at Blackpool front in Lancashire, England.

Crowds at Blackpool front, a seaside town in Lancashire, England, during World War 2. The front of the Blackpool front. A sidewalk with soldiers pass in the foreground. Allied soldiers with girls in uniform getting off a horse carriage. American and British uniformed men and passers walk along a road showing atmosphere of any typical seaside town. American soldiers talk to English girls. Sign over a boardwalk play target range reads, "Learn to Shoot - Give Hitler the Works" with a caricature of Hitler on it. The crowds walk in front. American soldiers and British girls drink at a tea stall called that is shaped like a giant tea pot, and has a banner overhead that says "Jugs of tea."

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070893
A large number of Britishers participate in a 100 mile walking race from Blackpool to Manchester in England.

A 100 mile race walking competition from Blackpool to Manchester in England. A large number of British citizens participate in the speed walking race. Men walking at high speed during the race. People gather along the sides of a street. The winner, 43 years old Vie Stone, is awarded by an official.

Date: 1954, July 30
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062763
British and American troops practice amphibious assaults at a beach near Dartmouth, England

Allied troops practice amphibious landing at Blackpool Sands, a beach near Dartmouth, Devon, England during World War II. Smoke on the beach. Landing Craft Vehicles (LCVs) beached at the coast. British and American soldiers on the beach. Allied officers watch amphibious landing practice. A radio operator with equipment. A loud speaker system is dug in on the beach as the operator observes the advancing troops. American soldiers with helmets and packs pour out of LCV boats and advance across the beach. Some soldiers hit the ground as shells explode near the beach. The soldiers advance on the beach. They crawl.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066889
American troops practice amphibious assault landings near Dartmouth, England, during World War II.

Allied troops practice amphibious landings at Blackpool Sands beach, close to Slapton Sands, near Dartmouth, England, during World War 2. Landing craft underway at sea head beachwards. The craft arrive at the beach and American soldiers debark. Another group of landing craft arrive at the beach. U.S. troops near the landing craft. Ships underway at sea.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066890
German invasion of Poland in 1939

Adolf Hitler addresssing the Bundestag in Berlin. Animated map shows Berlin, Warsaw, and higlights Danzig and the Polish corridor. Newspaper headline reads 'Poles will fight for Danzig.' Polish officer addressing recruits. Polish women and children watching as they march off. Polish women and old men and youths digging trench fortifications. Animated map shows Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Map shows Vistula River and tributaries. Map shows Polish defense options. Map illustrates Nazi plan to launch pincer movements around the Polish defenses. Views of German forces marshaling near the Polish border in August, 1939. Polish infantry moving in horse-drawn wagons, supported by old fashioned horse cavalry. Film illustrates dramatic difference in military might, contrasting German armor, aircraft,and numbers to that of Poland. Closeup of German airmen loading bomb under their aircraft. German heavy artillery and siege mortar firing. German Panzer I light tank charging through snow. Motorized German forces entering Poland on September 1st, 1939. German Heinkel HE 111 bomber taking off toward the camera. Several Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers taking off. German aircraft strafing Polish aircraft on an airbase. Aircraft exploding on the ground. A Dornier Do 17 bomber maneuvering. More views from German aircraft strafing Polish aircraft on the ground. Formation of He 111 aircraft in flight. Gunner firing from blister in bomber. Two Polish P50A fighter planes being fired upon and exploding in air. Aerial view of German Me Bf 109 as it maneuvers nearby. Me Bf 109 firing guns and flying through white smoke. A Polish P50 streaming black smoke. Another gunner in bomber firing and hitting a Polish P-50. An aircraft crashing in flames. More He 111 bombers. Glimpse of bombardier in He 111. Bombs striking Polish bridges, roads, railroads, etc. Closeup of Stuka dive bomber starting dive down on target. Polish civilians fleeing in a field. A stuka diving as children watch from hiding places. Bombs bursting near railroad. Closeup of German airman in cockpit. Polish cavalry charging. German tank tows a field artillery piece across a shallow river, A destroyed bridge in background. A Panzer I light tank emerges from the stream. German soldiers racing across the Vistula River in long powered boats. Series of maps show situation from September 5th as Germans advance and Poles retreat, ending with encirclement of Warsaw and defeat of Polish forces. Scenes of Warsaw, encircled and bombarded, but not yet fallen. Firemen respond to bombing and shelling. Buildings crumble. Germans load and fire 142mm Howitzers. Scenes of destruction from shelling. A factory chimney falls. Hitler at the front observing bombardment. Women and children seek shelter in the city. Dead horses in streets. September 27th Warsaw capitulates and German troops occupy it. Map shows Polish forces still resist in the Westerplatte fortress. German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, firing her guns. Defenders raise white flag on October 1st, 1939. Polish prisoners marching away (one seen barefoot). Polish Nazi collaborator points out persons for arrest. Poles lined up by a pit for execution. German machine gunners firing. Glimpse of Nazi Heinrich Himmler. Bodies of executed. Polish women mourning the dead. Closeups of Polish women, children and old man. A woman throws fuel on a funeral pyre. Closeups of mourning women and girls. Hitler's Ju 52 transport plane takes off. Inside he talks with military passengers. Profile of Hitler silhouetted against the sky, looking at burning city of Warsaw. Russian army entering Poland talks with German officer. Sign boards in England say Britain declares war. French forces respond, marching from Caserne Maginot Barracks. British bombers attack German warships in the Kiel canal. German sailors rush to battle stations and fire anti-aircraft gun. Bombs away view as British planes bombs German Navy.

Date: 1939, September
Duration: 13 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043611
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