Activities of British paratroopers in North Africa. View of two British soldiers. Many U.S. Air Force C-47military transport aircraft parked at the airfield. British paratroopers stand in a group for final briefing before boarding aircraft. Planes parked in a line at the airfield. A soldier puts on a helmet. The paratroopers check each others' equipment. They board a plane. Views out the open rear door of the C-47 during takeoff. The field is filled with C-47s and a few other planes. View inside the C-47 cabin with paratroopers in the plane. Paratroopers jumping out the rear door. U.S. C-47s in formation flight. The planes land, one at a time back at the airfield. (World War II period).
British Members of the Parliament arrive at Haneda Airfield (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Cars parked outside the airfield. the British Commonwealth member, W. M. Ball and British Political Advisor, A.D.F. Gascoigne talk with Lieutenant General C.H. Gairdner. Parliamentarians leave plane and being greeted. Members of parliament pose at an airfield. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur enters a building.
Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, visiting Montego Bay in the British West Indies. A British West Indies official welcomes Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip joins them. A BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) Boeing Stratocruiser airliner in the background. A sign 'Welcome to the West Indies' is displayed on the airport terminal building. A large crowd gathers to welcome. People stand and applaud. A motorcade moves along a road. A reception line is setup at the airport. Queen Elizabeth II greets crew members on the airport ramp, in front of the airliner.
The British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (No 1 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). People walk on the Chidorigafuchi Park outside the British Embassy. Sakura cherry blossom trees along the sides of the Chidorigafuchi Park. Men on bicycles pass on street. British family watches the sakura trees. Exterior of the American Embassy in Tokyo (1-10-5, Akasaka, Minato-ku).
The Battle for the eastern Gustav Line. Snow covered mountains in Italy. British troops being re-supplied with food fuel and ammunition by means of mule trains run by Italian Army troops under Allied control. Wounded British soldier on stretcher is carried high above the snow on shoulders of comrades. British artillery directed toward German positions in Majella mountains. New Zealand troops unloading supplies at their position less than a mile from the Germans. The supplies include snow capes to camouflage the infantrymen. The New Zealanders don the snow capes and proceed through the snow. (World War II period).
Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
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