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England recruits R.A.F. flyers while ramping up fighter production before WWII.

A man views a British Royal Air Force (RAF) recruitment poster. Poster reads “Join the R.A.F. and see the world”. British men marching through gate as they enter a military base as new recruits prior to World War 2. Several recruits trying on RAF coats in front of officers inside an office. Factory workers working on aircraft and mounting engine in a fighter plane, probably a Hawker Hurricane. Aerial view of an airfield with airplanes parked in formation.

Date: 1936
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079781
Terrorist bombings in Palestine

British troops gather outside Barclays Bank in Palestinian. Sign reads “Barclays Bank (Dominion Colonial and Overseas)”. Guards stand at the entrance of the bank. Clients entering the bank. Cartoon explosion. British troops evacuate victims from the blast site at Goldsmith Officers Club. A medic attempts to resuscitate a victim. Medics carry an injured on stretchers. A man lying face down on a stretcher. Rescue personnel search through debris of the Goldsmith Officers Club building in Jerusalem following the Irgun bombing on 1 March 1947. A Goldsmith Officers Club sign lying among the debris. Rescue personnel climbs down a ladder. The blasted façade of the Goldsmith Officers Club building after the terrorist bombing.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079965
Imposition of Martial law in Jerusalem after the bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club.

British military impose Martial law in Palestine after the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club. A British soldier assume prone position while holding his rifle. Troops lay down barbed wires on roads in Jerusalem. A soldier keeps watch from a balcony. Armored personel carriers patrol the streets of Jerusalem. A soldier stands guard at a gate. An empty street in Jerusalem during Martial law.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079967
German officer briefs troops, Allied prisoners in Crete (WW2)

Map of Crete showing its distance to Athens (Greece), Tobruk (Libya), Alexandria (Egypt) and Beirut (Lebanon) during World War II. Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52 aircraft parked on an airfield (likely Maleme airfield). German military officer points to the area near Chania on a map of Crete during a meeting with troops. German officer briefing soldiers and pilots. Allied prisoners of war march in Crete. A medic applies medicine to a British soldier’s wounded hand. A German soldier points to captured British prisoners. A prisoner sits on the ground and leans on a wall near a German guard.

Date: 1941, June
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080097
English Electric Canberra prototype jets take off from an airfield and fly over England

British aviation developments after World War II. A twin-jet English Electric Canberra takes off from Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England. The English Electric Canberra A.1 prototype (VN799) in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype (VX165) flies over the airfield. Crowds of British civilian men and women watch the first Canberra B.2 prototype in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype performs maneuvers.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080217
POW captured, Germans celebrate at Dunkirk (WW2)

German Army troops discussing plans before taking over Dunkirk during World War II. German tanks level trees and advance into Dunkirk, France. German Wehrmacht soldiers follow tanks. Wehrmacht infantry troops advancing into Dunkirk on foot. They duck after an explosion takes place. German soldier signals a tank to fire at enemy position. A burning military vehicle. A German soldier running. German troops push a running British prisoner POW with hands up towards a tank. British POWs ride on top of a tank. A German soldier smoking a cigarette. German Army troops laughing, eating, and drinking beer during their rest time. Soldier loads up a thick sauerkraut sandwich and eats.

Date: 1940, June
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080361