Depth chargers being manufactured in Canada during World War II. Canadian men work in a plant as they manufacture depth charges. Men work on metal pieces. They wear masks as they weld metal cylinders. Explosives being filled into the depth charge. Men push the depth charges on a trolley. A ship at sea as a depth charge explodes in the background during World War 2.
Damage and repair of U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Kearny (DD-432) after it was attacked by German U-boat U-568 in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II (before the U.S. had entered the war). Animated map locates the position of U.S. Navy vessel USS Kearney in the Atlantic Ocean when the German submarine struck it near Iceland. Ships at sea. A damaged USS Kearney at sea after the attack. The crew aboard the ship being rescued as they come aboard another ship. The damaged ship at a fjord in Iceland. Men make repairs on the ship as smoke rises. Men weld parts of the ship. USS Kearney sails to Boston. The mast of the ship and the control room. The ship underway at sea after being repaired.
U.S. President proclaims unlimited national emergency in the United States during World War II. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt while addressing the Pan American Union representatives says that it is necessary to forcibly check the advance of Nazi German forces. He states that the Axis powers of World War II aim to control the seas. He expresses his faith in the principle of the freedom of seas. He says that we will resist any such attempt by the Nazis to control the seas. He also promises to assist Britain in fighting against the Germans and "Hitlerism". He urges an increase in the production of war equipment in the country. He proclaims unlimited national emergency in the United States. He assures that democracy will triumphantly survive.
Allied supply convoy in North Atlantic ocean during World War 2. British Naval officers aboard warships escorting the convoy. Depth charges exploding; submarine periscope seen in water; depth charges being launched from warship; Officer looks through binoculars; black smoke rising from a freighter torpedoed by a German submarine. Explosion on the freighter. Survivors covered in oil being rescued from torpedoed ship. British woman working in a British headquarters center plotting positions of ships on a large wall map.
A Russian factory and an oil field in Russia during World War II. Men at oil well tower on an oil field in Russia. Workers at controls. Man takes reading from an instrument at tower. Russian women workers at sewing machines in a factory. Instructor with Russian woman.
Russian Red Cross women during an air raid drill in Russia during World War II. Air raid siren sounds. Red Cross women march, some of them carry stretchers. Red Cross women make the woman on stretcher wear gas mask and work on her legs. Red Cross women carry the woman on stretcher. Red Cross women being trained in a compound.
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