HMS Suffolk, the first of the County Class cruisers of the Royal Navy launched by Marchioness of Bristol at Portsmouth in England. The cruiser leaves the shipyard into the water. Cruiser underway in the harbor. British Flag flutters on the ship.
Testing of concrete Mulberry Caisson at Portsmouth harbor in England. A warehouse and a Caisson at the dock. Sailors and Chief )Project Officers ( CPOs) work on hausers, climb ladder and secure cable hausers. A tug tows the Caisson from the dock. These structures had the code name Phoenix
Iraqi Prime Minister Sayyid Salih Jabr visits Portsmouth, England. Prime Minister Sayyid Salih Jabr from Iraq, with British Service Chief, Ernest Bevin. HMS Victory at a port. Honor guard lined up as Prime Minister Jabr reviews troops. Dignitaries embark onto the ship. Leaders dine and confer aboard the ship.
A wartime project "Phoenix" concrete caisson being towed in water off Portsmouth harbor in England. British military personnel aboard the caisson. The caisson is identified as "A 30" indicating it is destined to be part of an artificial harbor (code-named "Mulberry") at Omaha beach in the Normandy invasion of World War II. An antiaircraft gun is mounted on a platform at the top of the caisson. Royal engineers turn valves to allow water to enter interior chambers of the caisson, where the water level rises to 23 feet. British troops take up positions on the superstructure of the caisson.
Germany's successive attack over England during World War II. German soldiers observe papers at a desk and prepare for direct invasion over England. The soldiers observe back lighted reconnaissance photos with a magnifying glass and observe forms of ships. A German pilot inside an aircraft in flight low near the coast of Dover, Portsmouth, and Plymouth. A German torpedo boat, or Schnellboots aka S-boot or S-boat, at sea running at high speed. German sailors and officers on the deck of a Schnellboots torpedo boat. German Army paratroopers in training for jumps. German paratroopers jump from simulated aircraft at low height, and hanging from wires, as they practice landing and rolling. German paratroopers at the open door of an aircraft and jumping in a line from the aircraft in flight. A number of parachutes in the air. A sketch shows the layers of British defensive positions from the coast inward. British flying boat over water. Gun turret of flying boat in action. Allied signal man soldier using portable signal lamp. Sailor on ship using large signal lamp. A British ship in the rough North Sea during a squall storm. British sailors in mine laying operation drop large round naval contact mines with protruding Hertz horns visible, into the sea. Booms with steel submarine nets in front of a British harbor to catch submarines and surface craft.
U.S. sailors at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia. A dock shows Norfolk Naval Shipyard buildings. Battleship at the dock. U.S. Army personnel aboard a ship and on the dock. A U.S. official speaks to a group of servicemen. Sailors march along a road. The sailors come to a stop and march again. Two navy officers talk to each other.