Activities of RAF (Royal Air Force), air arm of the British Armed Forces, in England, during World War 2. Radio operator adjusts equipment inside airplane. Navigator and bombardier inside Lancaster bomber. Pilot signals from cockpi. View of painted bombs depicting many bombing missions on side of fuselage. RAF (Royal Air Force) insignia-Pathfinder Squadron. View of RAF insignia for No. 156 Squadron RAF on the side of the aircraft. Flag mast of RAF (Royal Air Force) and flag flies in breeze.
Activities of RAF (Royal Air Force) Pathfinder Squadron, air arm of the British Armed Forces in England. Pathfinder flares bombs. Various view of Pathfinder. (World War II period).
Activities of Pathfinder Squadron of RAF (Royal Air Force), air arm of the British Armed Forces in England. Pathfinder flare bombs dropped. (World War II period).
Air war in England during World War II. General Dwight D Eisenhower inspects 9th Air Force base in England. General Eisenhower inspects the plane and its readiness, shown by Air force personnel. General Eisenhower seated in cockpit fires mounted machine guns for testing. B-26C's take off and bombard over target. Aerial view of targets and explosions over target. B-26C's land and British Hudsons take off. Planes fire, smoke arises from explosions.
Scenes in France near the end of World War 2, a sign "Cordemais" on a damaged building (likely the train station at Cordemais, France). A white flag of German surrender flies in the breeze. American sldiers stand near the building as a German surrender delegation approaches, led by negotiator Hauptmann Reinhold Mueller, to arrange handover of the St Nazaire enclave. A US Army soldier translator is seen speaking to the German officers and taking notes. French negotiator representatives are also seen, including one in black beret with a paratrooper insignia on his uniform. Red Cross representatives are seen taking notes. German and Allied officers (American, British, French) at the surrender conference. French civilians repair railroad tracks damaged during the war. French refugees are assisted by Red Cross workers. Troops board a train and it departs. A sign "Chantenay" (presumably at the train station in Chantenay-Villedieu). Group of people including boy scouts waiting to greet relief train as it pulls in to station. Close up views of the faces of men and women waiting to greet the train with civilians on board. Red Cross nurses walk quickly on railway tracks after train to greet it as it pulls into station. Men and women on train wave. Women, infants, and children first are seen getting off the train at an evacuation center. Scene changes to a snowy woods area and a large dwelling in the woods. A elderly woman collects firewood. An elderly man collects burnable twigs from trash cans and puts them in a bag. Three different older men shown filing a metal item in a vice with a metal file. Man picks up a small frame with a photo depicting a French officer in uniform. Grave site of a French soldier with cross marker and combat helmet hung from the cross top. Ground level view of a line of graves of French soldiers killed in World War 2, each with a helmet hanging on the cross grave marker. An old French woman praying with a rosary. A old woman sitting by a window. Another old woman huddled beside a wood stove rubbing her cold hands and pulling her blanket shawl higher on her shoulders. An old man taking tea in bed. A man rings a doorbell (hanging from a cord) in front of a hospice. Elderly man smokes a pipe and another lights his cigarette from it, women knit. Close up views of faces of elderly French people. Elderly dine at long tables in large hall. French people standing in a line outside a shop. Dix Francs currency of France shown. Views of young women typing and sewing. A diagram of human figures shown. Scenes from a house: An old woman knits, an old man reads, a young woman greets them with kisses.
News headlines in the New York Times. A scrolling news marquee at the building of New York Times: "Read The New York Times", "Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And France For Failure To Solve Berlin Dispute-- Charges West Follows Warmongering Policy But Discounts Possibility Of New World Conflict" and "Stalin Flays Former British Prime Minister Churchill As 'Chief Instigator of War' ". Pedestrians and motor traffic in foreground. A scrolling news marquee: " Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And European Revival", "Western Diplomat Describe Stalin's Attack On Allied Powers As Propaganda Statement" and "Britain U.S. And France Halt Heavy Flow Of Western Marks Out Of Berlin". Two men and a couple look at the marquee. Views of a man looking at the marquee.
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