German soldiers battle against the British in area of Tobruk Libya during World War II. A map shows the coast of Libya, highlighting Tobruk. A German officer standing with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel atop a hill and looking through binoculars. German troops with Panzer Tanks including Pz.III, Pz.IV and Italian tanks advance across an open ground. An armored vehicle tows artillery. German soldiers make a barbed wire fencing. A danger signboard (skull face). German soldiers take positions with rifles in trenches in sand terrain. Officers look at a map. German artillery in position to fire. The soldiers load and fire the artillery. Wrecked British aircraft on the ground. German Stuka dive bomber aircraft attack British positions. Fire and explosions on the ground.
First scene is a brief glimpse of General John J. Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) decorating several British military officers. The next sequence shows General Pershing conversing with Winston Churchill, at a social gathering in a park, on a pleasant sunny day, in London. The event is attended primarily by British military officers in uniform and their families, including spouses and children. Churchill and another man, both in top hats, are the only civilian officials noticeable at the gathering. There appear to be spectators standing in the background, and a London Bobbie is also seen. Final scene is very brief glimpse of two British officers walking from a car to greet General Pershing. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
United States military airman with British civilians discussing politics in The Mother Shipton Pub (Mother Shipton, 1 Malden Road, NW5) in London. U.S. Soldier listens with British spectators to speaker in Hyde Park. British steelworker relaxing at home with wife and daughter, in unfazed by political issues in newspaper of the day. Photo album with family pictures. Queen Elizabeth II riding in Royal Coronation Coach on streets of London, surrounded by cheering crowds, on the day of her Coronation, June 2, 1953, escorted by Royal Guards on horseback. American servicemen and women watch changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth on horseback during the Trooping the Colour.
An Allied airlift in West Berlin, Germany. British European Airways office at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Women refugees from East Germany sign flight papers. Refugee women in a waiting room as they look at an aircraft. Two women smiling. The women board a British airplane (G-AMSR). A clerk marks a British European Airways bulletin board listing the number of refugees who left the area on March 8th, 1953.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in France during the Allied invasion of World War II. Prime Minister Churchill talks to two naval officers. Churchill puts on his Mae West and helps British Field Marshall Allan Brooke to put on his Mae West jacket (life jacket). Churchill with Field Marshal Brooke and Field Marshal Jan Smuts. Churchill comes down a companionway. A barge pulls away from a ship with Churchill aboard it. Dock workers run along a pier. People run to see Churchill and party. Churchill with British General Bernard Montgomery. Churchill walks up a gangway.
Allied leaders at the Malta Conference (Code name: Argonaut, Phase I, Cricket) during World War II. A ship at a harbor in Yalta, Crimea. Smoke rises from stacks in the background. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the bridge of the British Royal Navy Cruiser, HMS Orion, salutes as the U.S. Cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) assisted by a tugboat, passes, carrying U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Valletta Harbor, Malta. Crew members aboard the cruiser salute British Prime Minister Churchill.
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