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British women work in various war time jobs and people greet Winston Churchill in Britain.
Contribution of British working women to the war effort in England during World War 2. British women prepare for German aerial warfare Battle of Britain. British women stand and talk. A woman reads from a paper. British women put up barrage balloons and man the antiaircraft guns. British women working jobs that are traditionally handled by men. They work on a train. Another woman cleans a wheel. Women fly and taxi planes. Women in war time drive ambulances and buses. They cook food and serve it to men. British men and women work overtime in a various factories, including war production factories on airplane production and operating various industrial equipment. A British woman welding with a mask. Workers yawn. Two British soldiers with guns walk. The Germans begin their bombing campaign in the Battle of Britain. A British soldier leaves a house. Soldiers walk with guns on their shoulders. People greet British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He waves to the people. British people listen to excerpt from Churchill speech on radio with his famous lines "We shall fight on beaches..." and "We shall never surrender." British Soldiers move up a hill. Men dig in mud. British civilians walking. Soldiers march and work. A man on a horse cart. An air raid by German aircraft begins and an alarm sounds. British boy and girl children look up in the sky and then run for shelter. Blitz Air attack on London by Nazi German Luftwaffe. A warden blows his whistle and runs, guiding citizens into an underground shelter. Parents are seen trying to fit gas masks onto young British children and an infant, as the children squirm and protest.
Air attacks on Britain by Germany and the counter-attack by British Royal Air Force during Battle of Britain in World War II.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain during World War 2. A British soldier looks through binoculars and another soldier sits. A soldier on a tank. German planes in flight above the English Channel. The planes drop bombs on the British ships. Explosions in the water of the English Channel. Royal Air force (RAF) pilots are scrambled on alert and run towards their planes. The planes take off. British planes attack the German planes. A German plane falls in the ocean. Damaged German plane. 180 more German planes put to attack. A pictorial representation shows the places in England attacked by Germany. Explosions on the ground. Various British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft in the air and on the ground. German attacks on Southampton and British ports. German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on British airfields, but British aircraft seen hidden individually near farms and homes and not grouped together in order to evade destruction by German Luftwaffe bombing campaigns.
German air attack on Britain during World War II and British defenses repeling German attacks during Battle of Britain.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier on a boat sees through binoculars. An aircraft lands on sea. German pilots are rescued and become British prisoners. Damaged German aircraft downed in Britain. Germans pause blitzkrieg campaign due to British Royal Air Force resistance. German soldiers shown having leisure time in their encampments. German military equipment idle. German long range artillery and rail guns attack England from a distance, firing over the English Channel. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses the people saying that Britain will win in the Battle of Britain, and Hitler is shown addressing the Reichstag and disagreeing with Churchill. German officers including Goering greet each other. They come out of a car. Various German bomber and attack aircraft take off again following an August 30 change in air war strategy by Goering and the Luftwaffe. British listening posts and control stations as well as fighter stations seen communicating, readying, and on high alert with anti-aircraft guns and RAF fighters to repel German attack. British spitfire aircraft take off to fight German Luftwaffe. A British soldier watches through binoculars. German aircraft drop bombs. View from inside German bomber nose position as it bombs a British airfield. A man blows a whistle in a British factory. British war production workers wear helmets and continue working at the munitions factory or ordnance factory during bombing air raid. British planes land and a pilot gives a report. He is asked, "Are you all right?" and he reports the German planes he downed.
Children are sent away from London during World War II, and British citizens and officials prepare for German blitz air attacks
British defense against German aerial warfare in Europe. A soldier stands near an artillery. Adolf Hitler talks to a Goering. A map of Europe and a finger points at London. Scenes of London city. People move on the streets. Soldiers work on artillery. British aircraft stationed. A woman holds a child. People move on a station platform. Children are evacuated from the city for their protection. Scenes of an air raid shelter. Men carry bags on their backs bringing supplies to shelters. Fire crews practice to prepare for raids by German aircraft during Battle of Britain.
German blitz attack on London and damaged buildings during Battle of Britain in World War II.
Blitz (blitzkrieg) air attack on London by Germany during World War II. German officers led by Goering plan a attack on Britain. The officers stand in front of a map and discuss. German aircraft stationed. German planes take off. British officers in a control room receive reports from sighting stations of incoming Luftwaffe and scramble British spitfires. British aircraft take off in defense. British and German aircraft attack each other in multiple dogfight scenes including some gun camera footage. View from British machine gunner position firing at German aircraft. German fighter aircraft is hit and plunges toward the ground. A British man draws a swastika on brick in chalk beside a line of similar markings, indicating another downed German aircraft. German aircraft fly over London. They drop bombs. A man tries to save himself by ducking and covering his head in a low-lying area during the air attack. Typewriter or teletype machine typing out reports on downed aircraft. A woman tears the update from the machine and reads the report. A man reads a paper mentioning the total damage. Damaged German planes. Ruined buildings in London and the body of a woman buried in the ruins. Important buildings of London damaged, including: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, House of Commons, newspaper publishers on Fleet Street, and St Paul's Cathedral. British soldiers inspect crashed and damaged German warplanes.
Churches on fire and water is pumped from the river Thames to fight fires in London, England during Nazi blitz in World War II.
The work of London's fire guards during a German blitzkrieg incendiary bomb raid in Britain during World War II. Bombs fall and fire breaks out at night. Nighttime views following the Luftwaffe attack. London buildings and churches are on fire. St. Lawrence Jewry Church (Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AA, United Kingdom) on Gresham Street, designed by Christopher Wren, in ruins. Views of damage to St. Brides Church (Fleet St, London EC4Y 8AU, United Kingdom) on Fleet Street. Firemen spray water on the buildings and churches. Firefighters team up to connect 6,000 feet of 3 1/2-inch firehose from fire boats in the Thames River, to reach burning buildings of London. Firemen seen in relay lines connecting fire hoses and working to extinguish blazing fires.
