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Life in Britain on eve of War. Chamberlain, Hitler and Mussolini signing the Munich Agreement during World War II.
An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to listen to the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
USAAF B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft fly in formation to invade Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied Invasion of Sicily in the European Theater during World War II. United States Army Air Force(USAAF) B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber aircraft taxis on the airfield. American and two British officers walk past a parked B-17. American officers talks to two British officers. General of the United States Army, Dwight D Eisenhower talks to British officers. General Eisenhower waves to British officers and steps into a staff car. General Eisenhower and British officers inspect British troops. General Eisenhower talks to a British officers. United States Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell (NA-62) medium bomber aircraft fly in formation
Sailors polish brass, visit of Dr. Weiching Williams Yen, former Premier of the Republic of China, onboard HMS Swiftsure in Shanghai, China
British Royal Navy sailors point to brass sign on the HMS Swiftsure while docking in Shanghai, China. Brass letters reading “SWIFTSURE”. View of HMS Swiftsure with British Navy flag. British Royal Navy sailor polish the brass letters “SWIFTSURE”. British Royal Navy officers salute as British Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser greets Dr. Weiching Williams Yen (also known as Yan Huiqing), former Premier of the Republic of China and the first Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union, onboard the HMS Swiftsure. Dr. Weiching Williams Yen socializes with Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser and another British Navy officer. Dr. Weiching Williams Yen poses with Admiral Sir Fraser and unnamed British Navy officer. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser speaks with Times correspondent, Waldo Drake, onboard.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower meets Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham at Tunis Port during the North Africa Campaign
On shore at Tunis harbor, a British Navy officer gives a sword salute to a senior Naval officer in World War II. U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy sailors lined up on either side of dock for a salute. General Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and other British and American Navy officers walk past the sailors in review. Cunningham has a walking cane hooked over his left forearm but does not use it. The Union Jack and the British Royal Navy flag are visible. Ship at dock in the background. Eisenhower and Cunningham and the other officers pause and greet in front of a waiting Royal Navy car, RN ME 4096, parked on shore. Eisenhower, Cunningham, and another British officer enter the waiting car and it leaves, passing by a Allied landing ship with number 5 seen on its bow, anchored at the port. Closeup view of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly and another U.S. Navy officer watching after the car drives away. Honor guard sailors march with rifles, departing the dock after the officers leave. (Eisehhower visited Tunis for meetings with British and U.S. Navy officers May 11-13, 1943. This footage is likely during those 3 days.)
German propaganda film about the battle of Belgium commencing 10 May 1940, in World War II
Film opens with date: 10 May 1940 (date of the German invasion of Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium, in World War 2). Huge precise formation of German soldiers is shown. Alternating closeups of individual soldiers and camera pans across the formation. Animated map shows Germany, Belgium, France and Holland, plus Rein River, City of Lille, and Paris. It shows positions of English and French armies, ostensibly attacking from France, across Belgium and Holland, toward the German Ruhr region (but actually moving to repulse the German offensive). Belgian troops advancing on motorcycles past sandbagged buildings. The French border being opened followed by many French military vehicles, including trucks, trailers, artillery pieces, and some French Lorraine 37 tracked vehicles. A steam locomotive pulls a boxcar troop train. French and British Expeditionary Forces seen on the train. Many of the Allied soldiers sit in its doorways with their legs dangling. A French Char B1 heavy tank rumbles along a road. French light tanks. More views of Allied troops, including French Colonials, marching through towns and villages. Closeup of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, General the Viscount Lord Gort, with another British Commander. British troops in armored personnel carriers. British troops participating in Battle of France seen marching as someone is heard singing in background, about "washing day on the Siegfried line." Several British self-propelled heavy guns in motion. German army engineers detonating a charge followed by large explosions.
Britain’s King George V and Field Marshal Haig, meet with French Marshal Foch and Gerneral Petain just before the Armistice ending World War I.
Historic Meeting of Britain’s King George V with French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and French General Henri-Philippe Pétain, in France, on the eve of the Armistice, ending World War 1. King George V, wearing black mourning armband, begins to organize them to pose for photographs, at the foot of some stairs. They all do some shuffling to arrange themselves with due respect to rank, etc and end up with King George V in center of front row, with Haig and Petain to his left. To his right is Marshal Foch, French General Louis Franchet D'Esperey and British General Henry Rawlinson. Complete change of scene shows a clean shaven British military officer speaking with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The local city mayor is with them, dressed in ceremonial robes. A statesman, in top hat stands nearby. A uniformed man carries the Mayor’s maces. Next, Lloyd George and the British officer inspect troops, walking between flanks of British soldiers holding shouldered rifles.
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