Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
London in Britain is bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Two men on a hydraulic ladder fighting fire. Smoke rises from the burning buildings following aerial blitzkrieg bombardment by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Fire blazes out from the roof of a building. Smoke in the background. Firemen with fire hoses direct the water at a door way and upper windows. Heavy smoke billows from the upper windows. Buildings in the background. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Smoke in the background. A man with a fire hose directs water at a demolished building. Rubble and debris on the streets due to the bombings. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom look at the bombed buildings with other civilians. The bomb damaged buildings. The King and the Queen talk to a British civilian wearing a helmet. Bombed and fire gutted buildings in London include a wing of Buckingham Palace, with damage to the wing shown. The firemen direct fire hose streams of water on bombed and gutted buildings.
A Luftwaffe bomber aircraft crashes in Britain during World War II. Rubble and debris between two houses. A British man carries a bomb from the crashed Nazi aircraft. Buildings in the background. British enlisted men and civilians in the foreground. A British civilian carries a bomb on his shoulder. British civilians in the background. Rubble and debris of demolished building in the background. The British civilian carrying the bomb stops and a British enlisted man takes the bomb from his shoulder. A British officer and an air warden looks on. The enlisted man lays the bomb near other bombs with detonators removed. The British officer in the background. A British civilian looks at the propeller of the crashed Nazi bomber. The enlisted man and civilians walk through the rubble and debris of a demolished building in the background.
British enlisted men clean up the damage caused by a bombing raid in Britain during World War II. The enlisted men repair and clean up bombing raid damage. They tear down a bombed building. They shovel mud out of a hole to repair a broken gas main pipeline due to the bombing raid. A large circular concrete molding. An English man carries a wooden frame in the background. A pipeline through the rubble and debris. The enlisted men use a wheelbarrow to remove the debris and dirt.
Inspection of a British aircraft plant in Britain during World War II. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and two parliament members enter an aircraft plant. They inspect a British aircraft factory. An unidentified aircraft being assembled in the background. Factory workers at work in the plant. Queen Elizabeth looks at a partly assembled British Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber. The King and the Queen and the parliament members walk in front of the aircraft being assembled. Civilians and factory workers in the background.
British factory workers visit Royal Air Force Station, Feltwell, in Norfolk, East Anglia, England, during World War II, where RAF Squadrons fly the Victor Wellington I Bombers they helped build. The factory workers walk up to a British Vickers Wellington medium bomber aircraft and meet flight personnel in front of the aircraft. The pilot shakes hand with the factory workers. Two crew members in the foreground. The nose of the Wellington Bomber in the background. A British enlisted man removes tarpaulin cover from stacked bombs. Steel scaffolds in the background. The pilot and crew members enter the Wellington bomber through the nose hatch. The factory workers watch as the bomber takes off on a mission to bomb Germany.
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