An air power show in the United States. Buildings in the background. A single motor airplane on a field. A man seated in the airplane.
An air power show in the United States. An aircraft in flight overhead. The aircraft crashes while landing. Trees in the background.
U.S. Air Force airmen sightseeing in Trafalgar Square area of London. Airmen stand next to Duke of Wellington equestrian statue at Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and look up at Bank of England building. Scene changes to the White Cliffs of Dover. British farms. Paintings of historic British maritime ships and activity. Animated map of British seaborne trade routes. A British port with meat and coffee imports, and coal and manufactured goods being exported. A ship being loaded with British goods.
British troops on the battlefields and in the trenches of World War I. The Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret) in formal appearance on a balcony. Scenes of World War II. London ablaze in the Blitz air attack by Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Firefighters direct water hoses on burning buildings. Funerals for dead at Coventry who were killed in the blitz. Destroyed homes in London and destroyed industry throughout Britain from blitzkrieg. A British bus upended and leaning against a building destroyed by the blitz. Many graves in British Military Cemetery. British contributions to science and technology. An early revolving radar antenna. Early jet propulsion work yielding jet powered British V-Bomber aircraft in flight. A doctor administers penicillin shot to a child patient in a doctor's office. An atomic bomb test with mushroom cloud rising.
British steel worker walks to work on Bashley Road, North Acton, London. Views of steel mills in Midlands. A ship under construction in Glasgow, Scotland. Wide, elevated view of city streets and buildings of Edinburgh, Scotland. Steel worker visits a Pub after the day's work. Men in the Mother Shipton Pub (possibly 1 Malden Road, Kentish Town, London NW5). Patrons drink beer and play darts. Bartender pours a cask ale from a tap. U.S. Air Force Non-Commissioned Officers seated at a table in the pub. One of them asks dart players if he can try. They assent and he throws several darts fairly skillfully, meeting with their approval. These scenes are followed by an Instructive narrative about the British political system accompanied by illustrated diagrams. Scenes include the floor of the House of Commons during session.
U.S. aircraft at Anacostia Naval Air Station( NAS ) in Anacostia, Washington DC. United States Navy F4H Phantom aircraft takes off from a runway. The aircraft in flight overhead. United States Navy A4D-2 Skyhawk is removed from a hangar by a small tractor. Letters 'Navy and Marines' painted on a side of the aircraft. The tractor tows the aircraft from the hangar. A pilot seated in the cockpit. The aircraft takes off and is in flight overhead.
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