World War II activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. Airplanes parked at an air base. Camera equipment being loaded into United States Army Air Force Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan and a United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) A-20 Havoc aircraft for aerial photography. Men in the cockpit of an airplane. A large formation of A-20s in flight. USAAF Curtiss P-40 aircraft in flight. The engine of a USAAF C-47 Skytrain stops and starts. A PT-17 aircraft flying at low altitude over airfields. A USAAF BT-13 Valiant performs an aileron roll. A USAAF Martin B-26C Marauder drops a large life raft and the BT-13 Valiant spins down. The U.S. flag atop a flag pole. Unit personnel at a retreat ceremony in a part of the main building.
Recruitment of new Navy personnel in a Navy Department building in San Francisco, California. Men gather outside the building. They enter and leave the building. Sign boards outside the building read: "Let's Go Why Wait" and "Arise Americans" encouraging men to enlist in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. A board outside the entrance of the building reads: 'US Navy recruiting'. Military representative seated at a desk inside the building. New recruits gather inside the building and wait in a queue to give their applications to be recruited for posts.
Segments of color footage shot for John Ford's wartime documentary on the Battle of Midway, during World War II. Sailors near a gun aboard a U.S. warship. Individual Douglas SBDs repeatedly fly overhead. An SBD dauntless ditches in the sea. A destroyer approaches to rescue the crew.
Activities of men at a harbor in the United States. Ships docked at the harbor. Men gather at the harbor. The men unload supplies from trucks. Cases of military rations stacked at the harbor. Sailors walking on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Sailors coming out of a building. A sign on the building reads: 'Fleet Recreation Center Enlisted Personnel'. Some of the sailors are smiling and joking around.
A British ship convoy underway in the North Sea as part of the Arctic Convoys supplying ships, weapons, and materials to the Soviet Union at Arkhangelsk and Murmansk during World War II. A map showing the North Sea route. The British ships underway. The ships carry weapons and other equipment to Russia as an aid for the fight against Nazi Germany. A man aboard a ship watches the area through binoculars. Crew dressed for Freezing cold temperatures. Enemy aircraft in flight over the area. The German aircraft drop bombs on the convoy. Guns fired from the ships. Smoke rise from firing and bombardment in the area. Circa 1942.
German blitz air attack damage in Britain during World War II. British anti-aircraft artillery guns firing at German aircraft in flight in southeast England. The British soldiers firing anti aircraft artillery towards the aircraft. Flak bursting in the sky. A German rescue sea plane heading to assist a downed German bomber. A British Hawker Hurricane aircraft is disabled and its pilot ejects with parachute. The Hurricane crashes to the ground. RAF launches depart to rescue the pilot in the sea. View of the rescued pilot, from New Zealand, being escorted ashore up a wooden dock, wrapped in a blanket. A bombed house. The destroyed buildings and churches in the area. The rubble of houses. Views of Anderson Shelters (bomb shelters) and a man emerging from one, his house in front of it partially destroyed. A captured German pilot, rescued at sea, is brought ashore. Elderly British men discussing the damage. A wrecked statue of British scholar John Milton lying on the ground. The destroyed buildings along the sides of the street in Westminster. Business men walking on the street show identification to authorities to gain access to a bombed area. Houses with exterior walls blown off revealing intact bedrooms inside. A policeman or Bobby picks up and examines a piece of shrapnel.
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