U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pays honors the martyrs on Armistice Day in Arlington, Virginia. A soldier walks with a rifle. Troops stand at attention in the background. An officer places a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. President Franklin D. Roosevelt salutes.
Many sightseers stand around the wreckage of a German Heinkel He111H-2 bomber that crash landed in a field. A swastika painted on the tail of the bomber. The damaged cockpit. Several British Royal Air Force fliers examine it. (Note: This is German Heinkel He-111H-2 bomber,coded 1H+JA of Luftwaffe Stabskette/KG26. Known as the 'Humbie Heinkel,' it crash landed, on 28 October, 1939, at Humbie, East Lothian, Scotland, after being shot down by No.602 'City of Glasgow' Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, during an armed reconnaissance mission over the Firth of Forth, where Royal Navy warships were harbored, during World War 2.)
German prisoners deny Britain's anti submarine campaign in a prison camp in England during World War II. Captured German undersea officers and crew walk in the prison camp. Barbed wire perimeter in the foreground. German prisoners deny Britain's anti submarine campaign.
Destroyers patrol the English Channel during World War II. Freighters at sea. Smoke rises from a chimney. "Dover Patrol", Britain's speedy squadron of sub chasers, stands guard. Mounted guns on a deck. Troop on the deck prepare to drive U boat crew away from freighters and troop ships. Freighters and destroyers at sea.
Lockheed Hudson bombers sink at a pier in Staten Island, New York during World War II. Two American built Lockheed Hudson light bombers loaded on barges await shipment to England for the Royal Air Force. The bombers are damaged as the barges spring a leak and sink.
The greatest mass migration from Venice, Italy to Libya, North Africa. Thousands of people from Italy gathered at the Piazza San Marco during a send-off ceremony. A cardinal leads a mass for Italian settlers leaving for Libya. Crowds gathered outside the Basilica of St. Mark (P.za San Marco, 30124 Venezia VE, Italy). Italian settlers carry their belongings with their children. They board a fleet of ships for Libya to help settle into its colony.
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