Members of British trade unions gather in Hyde Park in London, England (Hyde Park, London W2 2EU, United Kingdom). Trade unionists protest rising food prices, during World War 1. They parade carrying their respective trade union banners and assemble to listen to speakers.
People gathered in Hyde Park, London, England, during World War 1, to protest high food prices and milk shortages. Most in this particular group are women and children. British carry signs that read ' hands off the baby's milk' and ' feed babys or pigs' A woman holds up a crying baby.
Conscripted British men receive personal notices as their names are read at public gathering. The drafted men assemble and march off for training and World War 1 service, accompanied by uniformed officials. Friends and bystanders, including a number of women, walk along beside and behind the new recruits on their way to war.
Signing of Treaty of Versailles in Paris, France. Soldiers guard the Palace of Versailles. Allied and German representatives arrive at the palace and get off their cars. Representatives being greeted by French officers as they enter the palace to discuss the terms of the peace treaty. Arrival of Georges Clemenceau and he exits car. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George arrives next. Marshal Ferdinand Foch reviews troops. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrives at the palace, exits car, removes his top hat, and extends his hand to greet officials.
The German invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. An animated map of Europe shows distances from Crete island to the nearby coasts. A Nazi aircraft in a field. German soldiers look on at a map before invading Crete island. An officer briefs the soldiers. Men in a field as they work on guns and various other equipment. The equipment being loaded into an aircraft. Aircraft lined up in a field. Soldiers prepare to board the planes. A machine gun on a plane. Men board the aircraft. The aircraft are lined up. Smoke rises in the background. The planes in flight. A pilot in a cockpit works on controls. German Stukas in flight over houses and fields. Paratroopers jump from the planes. A Stuka shoots down a British aircraft. Aerial view of the city. A German plane lands in a field. Soldiers wearing life jackets board the flight. The aircraft in flight and a pilot in the cockpit of the plane. German paratroopers drop and land. Soldiers fire from behind the sand bag mounds. Damaged Nazi planes. Bullet hits on aircraft bodies. A plane parked in a field as soldiers walk past it.
' Operation Pluto ' about the British operation to lay down under the sea pipe lines to supply gasoline in the European theater during World War II. A map of France. Flexible pipelines to transport gasoline between France and England are tarred and wrapped in Britain. Pipelines being manufactured and piled up in a yard. Ships and boats underway in the English Channel as the pipes are being laid.
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