British troops evacuate Dunkerque, France during World War II Operation Dynamo. Barges at a port. Damaged ships in a harbor. British soldiers get off a ship into a landing barge. Barges approach towards the beach in Dunkirk as smoke rises from the beach in the background. Troops wade through water towards the beach. Men aboard a Dunkirk rescue ship. British troops being rescued from a ship.
British Pom Pom gun (QF 2-pounder) being fired in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A British Pom Pom gun aboard a British Royal Navy ship being fired. Explosions occur at sea. A low flying enemy aircraft is hit. The aircraft bursts into flames and smoke rises. It plunges into the sea.
The Allied Campaign in Italy during World War II. The campaign begins on September 23,1943. British 8th Army troops get onto ships . British 8th Army Commander General Bernard Montgomery. British soldiers land in Calabria, Italy. 8th Army troops advance. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower aboard a ship. The Italian fleet surrenders. U.S. 5th Army soldiers loaded in a ship under the command of U.S. Army General Mark Clark as they head for Salerno, Italy. Allied aircraft provide a cover to the convoy underway at sea. German soldiers and equipment in Salerno. Allied troops land at a beach as the Germans open a heavy fire. Explosions occur at the beach. Allied naval guns are fired at German positions. Nazi aircraft attack to disrupt Allied landings. Royal Air Force and B-17s of the U.S. 9th Air Force aircraft in flight. Aerial view of bombs exploding on German positions. Dead soldiers at the beach. 8th Army soldiers advance inland. Artillery being fired. General Mark Clark with the soldiers after gaining the beachhead. 8th and 5th Army soldiers advance into Italy. A map depicts the position of Foggia, an Allied stronghold.
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.
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes visits the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland towards the end of World War I.. Sir Eric Geddes arrives at Union Station of Washington DC. British Admiral Alexander Duff, U.S. Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, U.S. Navy Admiral W.S. Benson and A. H. Robertson arrive at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. U.S. Navy Admiral Edward Walter Eberle stands in front of the pillars of the building. The group of British and U.S. Navy officers tour the Naval Academy.
French civilians, on a boulevard in Paris, France, look on as a pilot boards a British Avro Rota autogyro (Cierva C.30A, British Civil Registration number G-ACWH). The autogyro, one of a dozen built for the British Royal Air Force, by Cierva Autogiro Co Ltd of Hanworth, UK, makes a demonstration takeoff and landing on the boulevard.
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