A British citizen is seen waving and giving the "V for Victory" sign to trucks passing by carrying British troops during World War 2. View of British fliers assembled on the tarmac in front of a Vickers Wellington twin engine bomber, as a string of trolleys carrying bombs moves along the ground near them. Closeup of the bombs on the trolleys. British RAF officers at telephones discussing a night's planned mission involving 10 aircraft. Glimpse of Vickers Wellington bombers and trolleys of bombs on an airfield. RAF officer and assistants (including 2 women) discussing targeting. Officer mentions photographs of submarine yards and they study them. Scene shifts to the targeting officer briefing air crews about their night's mission, to bomb the German submarine and ship building yards at Bremen. View of photographs. View of aircrew members in briefing room. Views of aircrew boarding their Welllington bomber; engine running; and pilot in cockpit. Other Wellington bombers cranking up. The bombers takeoff at dusk. Pilot in one checking with his rear gunner, and radio operator, while they are in flight. Two bombers silhouetted against sky while in flight. Crew member annotating navigation log. Scene shifts to German pilots on the ground, being scrambled to their Messerschitt Bf 109 aircraft. German searchlights scan the sky and soldiers run to man their 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft guns. Flashes from these guns are seen in the darkness. Some British Wellington bombers flying through clouds with Flak bursts around them. Pilot in a bomber tells his crew they are entering a glide. View of bomber in sharp decent. Antiaircraft batteries firing rapidly. Bombardier at station in a bomber. View of bomb in bomb bay. Bombardier presses button releasing several bombs. Explosions on the ground. Antiaircraft batteries firing furiously. Pilot in cockpit illuminated by flare of bombs and fires. Camera pans across burning buildings on the ground. Closeup of Adolf Hitler vowing revenge. Slate reads: "November 14th, 1940." Views of German bomber aircraft in night raid over Britain during Battle of Britain. Bombs bursting and antiaircraft fire during blitz. View of Coventry, England, in the dawn after the raids. Destroyed and severely damaged buildings, some still burning. Aerial views of some of the destruction. People walking past rubble. Camera captures image as remains of one building collapse. Skeletons of buildings silhouetted against the foggy sky. Survivors on the streets huddle at a bulletin board to read news posted there. Teams of firefighters and others trying to deal with the destruction and pulling victims from the rubble and carrying them for burial in a common grave. Survivors placing garlands of flowers on the graves.
Attack on London at Christmas eve of 1940 during Battle of Britain in World War II. British men and women work on machines continuing to manufacture armament and weapons in the war effort, despite German blitzkrieg (blitz) air attacks. British workers work on aircraft. Close view of aircraft wheel rising into place during manufacture. British choir of boys sings Chrismas carol in cathedral. A young British girl seated by a fireplace races to greet her father in uniform as he enters. People celebrate Christmas. Crowded underground tube platforms and transit trains going by. A British boy and two girl children decorate a Christmas tree. Vendors sell goods to citizens taking cover in the underground. Night blitz air attacks by Germany on London. Buildings set on fire causing one of the greatest fires in history. London Fire Brigade fighters spray water from fire hoses on the burning buildings. They pump water from the Thames river. People of London sleep and relax underground in tube system. British attack the German aircraft with ground artillery and anti-aircraft weapons.
The eventual victory of Britain over Germany in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Damaged buildings of London following German blitz air attacks. British people cheer for victory as Winston Churchill greets them and walks with them in the streets. Remains of German planes and tanks. Graves of German soldiers. An injured woman on a stretcher. The British soldiers and citizen rescue workers rescue British people. A British soldier stands near a gun barrel. Soldiers stand with guns. Adolf Hitler with other German officers. A statue of an eagle with a Nazi sign. German soldiers march carrying their flags. A soldier looks through binoculars. A British woman speaks about what it was like to endure the German blitzkrieg attacks and a man is beside her on a bench. British aircraft and Royal Air Force aviators stand near. British soldiers march. Close-up of propeller starting on a British spitfire aircraft. British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft in flight. British soldiers singing.
From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. Animation: Burt the turtle walks along a path carrying a flower in his hand. A monkey holding a burning cracker leans from a tree. The cracker bursts. A burnt tree. The turtle covers himself. Children sit in a classroom and a professor teaches ways to protect themselves during a nuclear attack. The children hide under the benches.
From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. Scenes of explosion and fire. People from fire extinguishing department spray water on a building. A person near the fire extinguisher service truck. Traffic police directs the moving vehicles. Children cross a road. A professor explains to the children about the dangers of an atomic bomb. Cartoon animation: atomic explosion. A buildings being damaged by the explosion. A turtle covers itself. A woman applies medicine to a child. A teacher explains ways to protect oneself during an explosion. A picture of a turtle drawn on a board. A girl child hides herself under a table.
From the civil defense film "Duck and Cover" in the United States. Children seated in a classroom. A girl child asks a teacher how to detect an atomic explosion. The teacher explains the various kinds of explosions like warned and unwarned explosions . Civil defense soldiers near a radar system. Officers sit and work. A soldier watches through binoculars. Planes in flight. Children play in the school playground. They move inside the building as the alarm rings. People move inside their houses. A young woman seeks help from a man. The man points towards a sign reading, "public shelter" directing the public to a fallout shelter. A car in front of the houses. Animation: Burt the turtle hides when a bomb explodes without warning.
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