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King George V of Britain, visiting HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Barham at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, in World War I.

View of British battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth at Scapa Flow with the Grand Fleet during World War 1.. King George V visits HMS Queen Elizabeth. He talks with Fighting Admiral Sir David Beatty aboard the deck. Admiral Beatty's staff and officers pose with the King for a group photograph. King George V visits staff, sailors and officers aboard HMS Barham. Sailors march on the deck. Ship's guns in the foreground. King George talks with staff and officers. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049920
World War II aircraft: Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and Consolidated B-24 Liberator

United States Army Air Corps aircraft. A Bell YFM-1 Airacuda taking off and seen in-flight. Close views of this unusual design with twin pusher-propellers behind greenhouse-nosed nacelles with cannons. American aircraft takes off from an airfield. Aerial views of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. Close view of the cockpit area, and then side view of the entire aircraft in flight. A British Royal Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator takes off from an airfield and its landing gear is seen retracting horizontally beneath the wings.

Date: 1941, June
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049962
United States Arms Plants speed production during World War II.

View of the Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Henry Ford in conversation with the British and American supply heads, Oliver Littleton and Donald Nelson. A B-24 bomber in the background. The touring party visits assembly line of the Ford Tank Plant. Several tanks roll out of the plant. In Washington DC China's Foreign Minister TV Soong concludes a land lease agreement with the U.S. Secretary of the State, Hall. On the Pacific Coast workers of a bomber plant are visited by the American Hero of War, General James Doolittle. General addresses the workers. The workers applaud and cheer. General Doolittle smiles and poses.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050136
Allied aircraft at the Gha'leh Morghi Airport in Tehran, Iran.

Gha'leh Morghi Airport in Tehran, Iran during World War 2. American pilot, smoking a pipe and wearing a seat pack parachute, approaches a Curtiss P-40 airplane (tail number 42-9992) displaying Soviet markings. As he climbs into the cockpit, we see that he wears a cap with so-called "40 mission crush," and sun glasses. He hand cranks the canopy closed. A line of P-40 aircraft are seen alongside a taxiway and the runway. Two men ride in a small tractor along the taxiway, as a Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft takes off from the runway. A North American A-36 Apache aircraft takes off. Bell Aircobra and Curtiss P-40 parked with other aircraft at side of runway as an airplane is seen on final approach in distance. Elsewhere on the airfield, near hangars, a Douglas A-20 Havoc is parked near a Bell Aircobra, a P-40 and several British Hawker Hurricane aircraft. Closeup of the Douglas A-20 Havoc seen earlier in the film. A mixed cluster of parked aircraft with mountains in background. A line of Hawker hurricane aircraft, an airport building in the center, and a Curtiss P-40 on the right, with mountain in background. A soviet sentry stands guard near a large single-engine aircraft with extreme up-swept wings.

Date: 1943, April 16
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050206
American officers discuss map in Washington DC and Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco

U.S. officers General George C Marshall, HH Arnold, Brehon Somervell and Lesley J McNair seated around table and discussing map in Washington DC, USA, during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill at a meeting in Casablanca, French Morocco.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050210
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill surrounded by officers read documents at a lawn in Casablanca, French Morocco.

Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated on lawn wearing civilian clothes. Several officers including General Henry H Arnold, Admiral Ernest J King, General George C Marshall, Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham, Sir Alan-Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Harry Hopkins in the background. Roosevelt and Churchill read documents. Churchill is smoking a cigar.

Date: 1943, January 14
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050213