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Lord Halifax travels aboard HMS King George V on a secret trip to United States during World War 2.

Lord Halifax arrives in United States aboard a new British warship. British Ambassador to United States, Lord Halifax travels aboard HMS King George V on a secret trip. Lord Halifax and his wife aboard the ship. Sailors stand on deck of the ship. United States President Franklin Roosevelt meets Lord Halifax before the warship reaches the port. Lord Halifax and his wife give a speech. Lord Halifax states that it was a great honor as President Roosevelt came to meet them.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941, January 28
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053973
The USS Lexington entering World War II in the Pacific Theater and unrelated scenes of aircraft carrier warfare

A newsreel compilation of several unrelated shots. A P-40 of the 57th Fighter Group takes off from deck of the USS Ranger (CV-4). In an unrelated shot, a view looking back past tail of an aircraft after takeoff, with the USS Enterprise behind. A Douglas SBD Dauntless airplane takes off from a Yorktown class carrier. View back past its tail in a pre-war shot as an airplane leaves the Lexington behind. On Feb. 20, 1942, during World War 2, while en route to attack Rabaul,in New Guinea, the Lexington is attacked by eighteen Japanese planes. She shoots down several of them. Machine gunners firing. Bombs bursting in water near the ship. An F4F with collapsed landing gear near edge of flight deck. Black smoke rising from burning Japanese plane in water. Sky blackened with flak. Machine gun tracer bullets visible. Inserted scenes show the stern of a British carrier, and views of a bombing attack in the Mediterranean against a British Illustrious class carrier. Another inserted scene shows a lone sailor running the length of the flight deck on the USS Enterprise in the Battle of Santa Cruz. A Japanese airplane bursts into flames. Another is struck and dives trailing smoke.( An inserted view of U.S. Douglas TBD Devastators peeling off and launching torpedoes.) Douglas Dauntless aircraft recovering back on the Lexington. Flight deck full of aircraft as the Lexington makes way in the Pacific. Animated segment showing numerous drawings of aircraft carriers and airplanes headed toward Japan. (Inserted view of Four U.S. aircraft carriers, USS Lexington, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise seen together in prewar maneuvers.)

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1942, February
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675054242
General Sir Ian Hamilton receives back the Scot drums for Gordon Highlanders in the European Theater.

Ceremony in Berling, Germany. British Army General Sir Ian Hamilton meets German President Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff (aka Paul von Hindenburg) and receives the the drums of Second Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, that Germans retrieved from Belgium, in World War I. President Hindenburg wears his uniform of German Marshal. General Hamilton is accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Robert McClintock, Commanding Officer of the Second Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. German Colonel, Oskar von Hindenburg, stands with British Military Attache, Berlin, Colonel Andrew Thorne, and Lieutenant Colonel McClintock, behind the drums. General Ian Hamilton poses. Second Battalion,Gordon Highlanders, on parade in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. General Hamilton salutes as he reviews the Battalion. Lieutenant McClintock, Battalion Commander, stands at attention, behind him.

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054347
SACLANT resources at Halifax NS. Eastern Subordinate Command, Northwood,England.

NATO's SACLANT responsibilities, assets, and activities. HMCS Bonaventure (CVL-22) Aircraft carrier of Royal Canadian Navy underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft scattered on the deck of the ship. A Canadian Destroyer nearby. NATO flag flies, flanked by British Ensigns, from Headquarters SACLANT's Eastern Subordinate Command, at Northwood, near London, England. Guard at gate checks incoming car. Sign reads: "Headquarters, The Commanders in Chief, Eastern Atlantic Area, Atlantic Command." Interior of command center. Ships of NATO nations equipped according to modern needs. British antisubmarine frigates flying the Naval ensign. Ships of French Navy underway. and in port, flying the French tricolor flag. A man fills entries in the 'Convoy' column of a chart in the Headquarters. View of patrol bomber aircraft with large radar that also carries bombs. At Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) crews are briefed for an antisubmarine exercise. RCAF Argus aircraft takes off. U.S. EC-121 Warning Star Constellation patrol aircraft in fiight. Flight of six P-2 Neptune aircraft in formation flight. An RAF Shackelton bomber, of 201 Squadron, on the tarmac. These aircraft search the sea and being used in anti-submarine warfare.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054544
Coordination between Naval Forces and Air Forces for Antisubmarine warfare. Joint Royal Navy Coastal Command Headquarters

Anti submarine activities of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involving forces of SACLANT. Coordination and integration between British Naval and Air Forces is mission of Headquarters, Joint Royal Navy Coastal Command. A sign reads 'Operations Room.' Inside, Royal Air Force and Navy Officers review large map displays. A lone British Avro Shackelton aircraft flies out on patrol over the Atlantic Ocean. The pilot and other crew members seated in the aircraft, wearing helmets and oxygen masks.. The crew uses devices like sonar, radar and other devices to search for submarines. They radio findings back to headquarters where it is made available to Air Force and Naval analysts.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1960
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054545
A demonstration of anti submarine warfare activities as planes take off and submarines underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

Activities of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for anti submarine warfare. Headquarters Joint Royal Navy Coastal Command (SACLANT), where officers use models and large floor displays to refine techniques of antisubmarine warfare such as the "Hunter-Killer Group." Example,of such, seen in formation at sea, consisting of aircraft carrier; destroyers; submarines; and aircraft. Aircraft being catapulted from flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Signal officer gives direction for take off. Helicopter carrier underway. Helicopter hovering over surface of ocean as it lowers sonar device into water. An unmanned robot helicopter being operated from a control center onboad ship and launching an antisubmarine torpedo, on command. British Shackelton bomber flies by the carrier "Hunter Killer mother ship." Controllers at work on the mother ship. Neptune aircraft dropping bombs, in flight. Explosions and splashes in water. Ship fires depth charges using the British "Limbo" semiautomatic firing system. Missile being launched from surface vessels. Skipjack nuclear submarine at dock. Development testing of Polaris missile firing from below water towards giant overhead crane. Large three funnel luxury ocean liner underway at sea.

Location: Atlantic Ocean
Date: 1957
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054546
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