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WWII scenes in Britain and Scotland; countryside, industrial cities, castles, shipyards and a factory making ammunition

World War 2 activities of the British in Great Britain. Industrial areas in Britain with opening shot of steel mill area, heaps of coal, and smoke pollution pouring from industrial stacks. An advertisement shows old country towns in Southern England. Other advertisements show Dunkeld Cathedral and a country vacation in Southern California. The countryside with bucolic fields and pasture scenes in view. Cattle grazing in a field. Exterior wide view of steel mills of Sheffield. A village with a flowing stream. Old castles in England. A shipyard on the River Clyde with ships anchored. Old cathedrals. Industrial cities of Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester are shown with aerial and elevated views of industrial stacks and smoke pollution from industry. A train passes by an industrial plant in Leeds. Interior views of a war materiel munitions factory in Great Britain in which British men and women war prodution workers are making war ammunition, shells, and ordnance.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054685
Ernest J. King, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Dudley Pound and sailors during the Atlantic Conference in the Atlantic Ocean.

A few dignitaries and sailors during the Atlantic Conference aboard HMS Prince of Wales in the Atlantic Ocean. Sailors on the deck of the ship. Admiral Ernest J. King U.S. Navy Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet , British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Alexander Cadogan and Admiral Dudley Pound First Lord of the British Admiralty. The sailors stand on the deck. The ocean in the background. Several sailors smile. A few officers with a dignitary. The sailors stand in a row.

Date: 1941, August
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054694
Sir John Dill receives the Howland Memorial Prize from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

U.S. Military Officers march across the snowy campus of Yale University, to an auditorium, to witness the award of Yale's Howland Memorial Prize to British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. U.S. Chief of Naval operations, Admiral King, and U.S. Army Chief of Staff , General George C. Marshall, take part in academic procession with Sir John Dill, and are seated on the stage during the presentation. Sir John speaks, followed by General Marshall, who remarks about the accord between American and British Forces.

Date: 1944, February 16
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054770
Scenes of Germany during period from 1919 to 1938 showing military resurgence and territorial expansion

Germany's military resurgence from the end of World War I through its reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 and union with Austria in 1938. German war materiel piled up in scrap yards and aircraft engines being destroyed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles after World War 1. Smoke stacks of war plants being toppled, aircraft hangars being destroyed, and warships being scuttled. German postwar armored cars for training. A soldier flexes the rubber gun barrel on one of them. French forces, including Colonials, occupying Coblenz (Koblenz) in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I. French soldiers on guard at the railroad station as a train pulls in. French colonial troops tending to their horses. A British soldier standing guard in front of a building displaying a placard with the Union Jack and word:"General Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, No.1 Building." French troops stationed in front of their headquarters and patrolling fences across railroad tracks at their occupational boundary. A large film slate announcing that the Rheinland is again free, followed by scenes of German troops re-occupying the Rhineland in 1936. Local citizens cheer the troops, who parade through a city and along the banks of the Rhein River. German sentries posted at The "Deutsche Eck" in Koblenz beside the monument of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Sign demarking boundary of Austria. Border guards opening the gates and German troops entering as crowds cheer. Adolf Hitler speaking before a huge crowd,immediately following the Anschluss (union of Germany with Austria) on 12 March 1938.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675055489
Canadians in jeeps move through a crowd of cheering Parisians in Paris, France.

Cheering Parisians on the streets in Paris, France. A truck loaded with cheering civilians and an American light tank moves through the streets. Trees on either side of the streets. Flying French and British flags on a building. The flag tilted down to Canadians in a jeep. The jeep pulls away from the building and goes through a huge crowd. Cheering Parisians wave arms. A girl kisses a soldier. Soldiers drink from a bottle of wine. A British soldier raises a glass in a toast. French General Charles de Gaulle in the crowd, talking to other French officers. Officers stand near him. A car leaves, trying to make progress through the cheering crowd. Final scene shows allied soldiers talking to or interrogating a line of at least 6 Nazi German officers who were captured and being held prisoner. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055597
Aerial maneuvers by a Royal Air Force Spitfire plane with insignia on its fuselage flying in sky over clouds, England.

Aerial maneuvers of a British Spitfire plane with British insignia in the sky, England. The plane flies at constant altitude over the clouds. The insignia of Royal Air Force on the fuselage of Spitfire. Royal Air Force Spitfire plane flies in sky and dives towards its left. Camouflaged texture on the Spitfire flying in sky.

Date: 1944, January
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056383