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Mrs. Winston Churchill arrives for a soccer match between teams of England and Scotland in Wembley.
A huge crowd of 66,000 seated in the spectator area of a stadium in Wembley, England. A soccer match played between teams of England and Scotland. Mrs. Winston Churchill arrives. Clementine Churchill shakes hands with the players. The crowd cheers. England defeats Scotland by three for zero.
Queen Elizabeth presents the Football Cup to Ron Yeats, Captain of winning Liverpool team at the Wembley Stadium in London.
Football Cup Final at the Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom. The Liverpool and the Leeds teams come on the ground. Large crowd in the stands. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip among the spectators. Queen Elizabeth presents the cup to Ron Yeats, the Captain of the Liverpool team that won.
Queens Park Rangers beat West Bromwich Albion in London
A soccer game between Queens Park Rangers and West Bromwich Albion at Wembley Stadium in London, England. 100 thousand fans cheer their favorite team. Rangers beat Albion by 3-2 to win the title.
Life in Britain on eve of War. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signing the Munich Agreement during World War II.
An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to hear the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
British RAF bombers of No 2 Group bomb the Philips Electrical works at German-occupied Eindhoven, Holland, during World War II.
Film starts wirh slate reading: "R.A.F. Blasts Holland." At an Royal Air Force (RAF) base in England, United Kingdom, ground crewmen work on a British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. Closeup of RAF pilot in cockpit of an airplane. Closeups showing fires burning and severe destruction of the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, the Netherlands, in aerial photographs taken during a bombing attack by RAF 2 Group, on December 6, 1942. Animated map illustrates the flight path of the attacking bombers from England, across the North Sea and the German occupied Holland, to Endoven. View of a de Havilland Mosquito bomber with propellers turning and then one of a Mosquito bomber in flight overhead. View from a warship of several RAF 2 Group aircraft flying low over the North sea. Glimpse of a Mosquito bomber flying low enough to affect the ocean surface. View from another aircraft in the formation, of a Mosquito bomber underway low over the water. View of a pilot in a cockpit, wearing learher helmet with earphones and an oxygen mask. View from aircraft approaching the coast of Holland, with two others already low above the mainland. More views of the bombers flying extremely low over Holland. View from a bomber showing agricultural land and the Philips Electrical works at Endoven, dead ahead. German flak guns fire and the bombers return fire by strafing the target building. The camera aircraft pulls up climb above the building and maneuvers over a river and city. Scene shifts to views from a high altitude group of RAF 2 Group, over the target. Views of their bombs bursting on target complex, causing fires and heavy smoke. Scene shifts, again to the bomber aircraft recovering at their home base in England. (Narrator states that 12 aircraft did not make it back.) View of a mosquito bomber crash landed. A severely damaged Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bomber. A crash landed Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber. Air crews conversing after arriving back from the mission. (Note: Losses to 2 Group were heavy, with 14 aircraft brought down by flak and enemy fighters, a 20% loss rate. Three more aircraft crash-landed on returning to England. Fifty-seven aircraft had been damaged and needed repairs.)
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
