The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets Wendell Wilkie in London, England. Wendell Wilkie on a visit to Britain in World War II. Wendell Wilkie and Prime Minister Churchill talk. He visits air raid shelter. Crowd of civilians in the background. Men sitting on bunk beds talk to him.
The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives on ship 'Prince of Wales' in Iceland. He reviews the United States Marines. Mrs Churchill and high British officials greet him at railway station in London. Railroad cars in the background. Huge crowd gathered at the station greets him.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London, England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits the victim families of bombing. He makes an extensive tour of wrecked buildings. A huge crowd on the streets. Civilians stand on either side of the road. Men raise their hats. Damaged buildings in the background. Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives an ovation from the crowd. Prime Minister Winston Churchill sits in an open car. (World War II period).
View from cockpit of German Dornier Do 17 bomber, of many parked on an airfield in German occupied France during World War 2. Camera pans across the cockpit. View shifts view from under the wing of one plane as an aircrew member heads toward it. Next, the bomber with engines running taxis out for takeoff. Scene changes to show head-on approach of a Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft taking off toward the camera. Then a formation of He 111 aircraft is seen in flight. Extreme closeup of He 111 in flight, with crew member visible in the aircraft. View from cockpit of a Dornier Do 17 bomber in formation flight. (Shaky camera makes them look like bi-wing aircraft in some brief scenes.) Camera pans across cockpit showing the Do 17 in formation above. View from instrument panel, of pilot and copilot at controls in a bomber. More views of the bombers in formation. The bombers arrive over London in the dark and are subject to British anti-aircraft fire with shells bursting all around them. Glimpse inside the cabin of one bomber. More flak explosions all around. The German planes release their bombs, which are seen exploding on London, England, below.
A Nazi "fire"raid in London, England during World War II. Burning buildings after the Nazi "fire"raid, part of the blitzkrieg or blitz over England by the German Luftwaffe. Firemen douse the fire. Towering flames are seen and falling walls as the fire destroys buildings. Elevated and aerial views of many buildings burning in the the night time raid.