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Memorial ceremony in Baltimore Maryland, for those lost in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, in 1915
Film opens showing mounted U.S. soldiers riding teams of horses pulling empty caissons signifying those lost in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915. They ride along a major thoroughfare in the City of Baltimore. Buildings along the street are decorated with patriotic bunting. Scene shifts to view from a pier, of a U.S. Navy single-funnel gun boat is seen making way, slowly In Baltimore harbor. Closeup of Group of women, dressed in white, aboard the boat, ares seen holding a large memorial wreath over side of the boat. Next, the camera shows a U.S. Aeromarine AS-2 Float Plane landing in the water. As it taxis in, the scene shifts back to the women on the boat, holding the memorial wreath. They are seen from behind, as they hold it high over their heads, and cast it over the side into the water. View of the women clustered in the bow of the boat as it moves slowly in the water. Other persons are present on deck, including at least one soldier and photographers and reporters. The U.S. navy ensign of stars flies from the bow. Closeup of the women in the bow, who now throw flowers into the water. Closeup of a woman (possibly Lusitania survivor). She stands next to the gun boat (now docked) holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a sash reading “Lusitania.” Next, the camera focuses on Lusitania survivor, British actress, Rita Jolivet, who stands on a pier with a building and automobile behind her. Scene shifts, again, to the ladies in white aboard the docked gun boat. Among those seen with them are two British Royal Navy officers in uniform. Final scene is of large public gathering at an outdoor pavilion. A military band is at the front of the gathering. Public figures are assembled on the stage. A color guard carrying American flags is moving through the crowd, toward the stage.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth speak to civilians and look at bombed buildings following Nazi blitz air attack in London, England.
London in Britain is bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Two men on a hydraulic ladder fighting fire. Smoke rises from the burning buildings following aerial blitzkrieg bombardment by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Fire blazes out from the roof of a building. Smoke in the background. Firemen with fire hoses direct the water at a door way and upper windows. Heavy smoke billows from the upper windows. Buildings in the background. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Smoke in the background. A man with a fire hose directs water at a demolished building. Rubble and debris on the streets due to the bombings. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom look at the bombed buildings with other civilians. The bomb damaged buildings. The King and the Queen talk to a British civilian wearing a helmet. Bombed and fire gutted buildings in London include a wing of Buckingham Palace, with damage to the wing shown. The firemen direct fire hose streams of water on bombed and gutted buildings.
World War I aircraft parked and dispersed all around on an airfield in France.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. An unidentified aircraft in flight. Wooden hangar buildings at an airfield. An aircraft parking area, warehouses, barrack type buildings and a motor pool at the airfield. A truck drives past on a road in the background. Several fighters and bombers, Royal Air Force Sopwith Cuckoo torpedo bomber, French biplane fighter aircraft Spad, British bombers Airco DH-4s, French fighter aircraft Nieuports, British fighter aircraft Sopwith Camel and other World War I aircraft dispersed all around on the field. Ground crew around the aircraft. Hangars in the foreground. A parked Airco DH-4 aircraft.
Housewives shopping for groceries with ration books after the end of World War II
Grocery shopping under the Marshall Plan in Great Britain. Stacks of canned goods and bottles on display at a grocery store. A girl shopping with her mother. Women shopping in the grocery store. Meat and cheese on a scale. A woman weighs meat and various cuts of cheese on a scale. Storefront of Lipton grocery chain (same company as Lipton, the British brand of tea). British housewives wait in a line at the grocery store for rationed food. Store clerk employee marks ration book of customer. Woman leaves store.
U.S. President Roosevelt talks about America's support to Britain and praises Winston Churchill during a speech in the U.S.
Excerpts from speech of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House Correpondents' dinner on March 15, 1941 in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated in a hall having dinner. President Roosevelt at a podium and speaks into a microphone. He speaks about people of the world supporting Britain and even Canada. He talks about America's full support to the British. Roosevelt in his speech praises British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He also speaks about America's support in world reconstruction and humanity. Roosevelt speaks that their should not be any racism. Every one should be treated equally and have equal rights. He talks about security, standard of living, and market for manufacturing. He says of dictators in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, "We believe that the rallying cry of the dictators, their boasting about a master-race, will prove to be pure stuff and nonsense. There never has been, there isn't now, and there never will be, any race of people fit to serve as masters over their fellowmen."
6 pounder anti tank gun is fired to remove the beach obstacles in Great Britain during World War II.
A British film which demonstrates the use of their equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. Several shots of fire from a 6 pounder (pdr) anti tank gun. The concrete blocks shattered up to 200 cubic feet. Mountains in the background. A tank approaches the concrete blocks. A British soldier stands in the background. The damaged concrete block.
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