British defense units including Indian regiments fighting in Egypt during World War II. Soldiers aboard jeeps and tanks advancing on a battlefield. Indian troops march in formation. They fire heavy guns on the battlefield. A man writes on a board. Indian soldiers fire anti-aircraft guns. Smoke from firing on the battlefield.
Civilians and refugees flee bombing in France during World War II Battle of France. Buildings set on fire due to bombardment by Nazi German aircraft. Heavy columns of smoke rises up from the fire in homes and buildings. Dead body of a woman on a litter on a street. Rubble of a church destroyed by bombing. Belgian refugees walk along a road with their personal belongings on carts, and take cover in a ditch beside the road as they are subject to bombing and strafing from the air. Damaged buildings in the area. French soldiers and French police officers walking in busy city area and questioning civilians on street and in an outdoor cafe, asking to see their papers, and trying to find and root out an "5th column" elements or those working for the enemy. Motorcycle police pull over a car and demand papers from the driver.
Wounded British soldiers being unloaded from ships in the United Kingdom early during World War 2. Wounded soldier being loaded onto a passenger train at a train station platform. Winston Churchill with Prime Minister Chamberlain leave Westminster Abbey. Crowd of citizens awaits out front and and the Queen Mother with King George VI leave Westminster Abbey. British men disassembling iron fences in a British park and piling them up, presumably to be melted down and transformed into armament for the war effort. People working in factories in England during World War II. Artillery barrels or ship guns being manufactured . Newly completed rilfes lined up in a factory. War production workers in an ammunition factory producing bullets and more arms and weapons for British war effort. New British soldier recruits at a training camp begin training for military servcie. British men and a woman seen receiving rifle training in prone position, practicing how to fire rifles at targets. A man hits a golf ball aloft and then he and others standing nearby quickly grab rifles and attempt to fire at the ball, as practice training for firing at German paratroopers in the sky in the event of invasion.
U.S. Navy Curtiss airplanes are released for the Allies in Buffalo, New York during World War II. The new airplanes parked at an airfield. Men working on the airplanes. An aircraft takes off and in flight overhead.
The 23rd Reconnaissance Squadron National Guard being trained in Springfield, Illinois. The squadron gets new six ton armored cars. They learn 'Blitzkrieg' method of war. Men aboard the cars advancing on a field. Aircraft in flight overhead. They aim anti-aircraft guns from the cars at the aircraft.
Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A large crowd gathers at a port. The middies standing along with other people. A midshipman talks to two girls. The middies aboard boats. A boat underway at sea. Ships in the background. The middies embark on battleships for their summer cruise.
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