Refine Your Search

British-Gliders stock footage and images

- Showing 2179 to 2184 of 3410 results
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.

Date: 1940
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068880
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.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068928
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.

Date: 1951
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069021
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."

Date: 1941, March 15
Duration: 6 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069086
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.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069420
A carrot charge being fired to break the concrete blocks at a beach in Great Britain during World War II.

A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A landing craft at a shore. Buildings in the background. A Carrot charge attached to a tank rolls down from the landing craft. A British soldier gives signal. The tank moves on the beach. A soldier seated on the tank. The soldiers stand on the landing craft. Concrete blocks in the foreground. Mountains in the background. Carrot charge is fired. Smoke rises due to fire. A damaged concrete block. A soldier near the damaged block.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069423