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British wounded and German prisoners of war entering British camp behind the lines in Battle of the Somme, in World War I
A heavily sandbagged British camp behind the front lines during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. British ambulatory wounded entering the camp followed by German prisoners of war. Several British soldiers blinded (probably by mustard gas) being led by comrades.The German prisoners seated on the ground, surrounded by numerous British soldiers. A British officer offers a canteen of water to one of the German prisoners.Other British soldiers offer cigarettes to the prisoners. A British Sergeant handing identification papers back to German prisoners. British soldiers carrying wounded on stretchers into the camp. More German prisoners, including some wounded but ambulatory, being brought into the camp under guard.
German antiaircraft defenses fire at British attacking aircraft at night, during World War II. Wreckage of numerous downed British aircraft is seen.
Opening scene shows a German soldier using a sounding range and direction finder to locate British aircraft attacking German installations in France during World War 2. The next scene is during a foggy night. German searchlights are seen trying to locate attacking British aircraft. A flare is seen falling toward the ground. German antiaircraft guns fire. Engine sounds of aircraft are heard. View of German gunners firing tracer bullets and heavier antiaircraft guns skyward. A ball of fire in the air marks a struck British airplane. Closeup of burning British aircraft wreckage. Next, a ledger of British aircraft downed by a German antiaircraft battery is seen. It shows a list of British aircraft shot down in July and August, including: Bristol Blenheim light bomber; Short Stirling bomber, numerous Spitfires; and other aircraft. Workers are seen walking through a yard filled with the wreckage of British aircraft in a junk yard, where a powered crane is seen raising wings, and engines of the aircraft and loading them onto rail cars. The Narrator states that by November, the German defenses had downed 923 British aircraft. View of a loaded open rail car and a locomotive pulling loaded rail cars.
British civilians evacuate England as British soldiers prepare to face German forces (WW2)
British civilians and British Expeditionary Force soldiers prepare for World War II. After the Nazi German invasion of France, British civilians flee from England due to the threat of war. A man with his family crosses railway tracks in England. Two women embark onto a ship to evacuate threat of war. British citizens on a crowded street corner, near an Italian restaurant. A sign on a window reads "British Restaurant" in an attempt to prevent boycott and prejudice by British citizens who might not otherwise visit an Italian restaurant. A notice reads "This shop is owned by a British subject who has registered for the H. M. forces." A man seen removing the "Italian" sign and painting over it. Indian Army troops loyal to the British crown are seen lined up for inspection. They march as they prepare for the war.
British Army sappers locate, disarm and collect German mines and British Royal Air Force bomb Tripoli, Libya.
British 8th Army takes Tripoli as Nazis flee Libya during World War II. A land mark. British Royal Air Force aircraft bomb Tripoli. The aircraft drop bombs and smoke rises due to explosions on a field. Commander of British 8th Army General Bernard Montgomery hoists the British flag over a captured German airfield. British ground crew near a captured German aircraft. A crew member paints the tail of the aircraft and covers German insignia with Royal Air Force insignia. A pilot exits a jeep and climbs into the cockpit of the re-purposed German plane, and takes off. British Army sappers locate, disarm, and collect German mines in Libya. Metal detectors are used by soldiers to locate a German Teller mine. Soldiers take out the Teller mine. View of hundreds of captured German land mines. A sign reads 'Safe Lane'. Trucks drive past on a road. The Medjerda River in Tunisian. British 1st Army soldiers near artillery. Aircraft in flight. A soldier signals and fires artillery. Smoke rises in the foreground. Dive bombers in flight. The bomber aircraft drop bomb. Hills in Tunisian. German soldiers fire guns. Soldiers on U.S. made tanks and trucks drive on a dirt road. A road side marker reads "Mateur" The aircraft in flight. British Douglas Boston bombers flying overhead.
British Army troops cross battlefield in World War 1, escorting several German prisoners of war back to trench at British lines
World War I battlefield scene filmed from camera in British trench. Line of British soldiers returning across battlefield, back to British trench. Several German Army soldiers are in front of the line, being marched forward under British guard. The German soldier prisoners enter the British trench, one holding his hands up as he enters. Close-up view of German prisoners in British trench, under British guard.
A British military government view of a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A German man reads a newspaper and looks at advertisements. Narrator indicates many advertisements are seeking missing persons after the war. Women workers at the Central Postal Inquiry Bureau in Hamburg reviewing written requests that have been received as people look for relatives. People seek permission to travel by trains. German people on foot and with bicycles wait in groups to cross pontoon bridges built by British engineers. Military government trucks and traffic cross a bridge with city buildings visible behind. Elevated view over tracks of locomotive train pulling slowly into train station with many passenger rail cars. Large group of German people on the train platform as the railroad train pulls up. People struggle to get onto the train. British guards pull a man away from a train at a station as he is trying to ride on the side bumper. Bicyclists and pedestrians moving forward on town streets after clearance. More views of fully loaded passenger train pulling out from German train station with many passengers visible in open top cars. A British flag at a military government court room. A hearing being conducted. An officer presides as judge over the hearing. Several man stand in front of the judge in a largely empty court room, including the accused, an interpreter, German defense counsel, and British prosecutor. A German police band plays. Narrator describes the remaking of the German police force. Two uniformed German police officers talking on a street as traffic goes by. A Red Cross team with nurses and technicians checks the blood pressure, height, weight and performs laboratory tests like blood content, measuring the health of German civilians, who the narrator says are receiving about 1000-1200 calories per day, or half the British military allotment. German children idle, at work, and at play: Two young boys playing in rubble of destroyed buildings; A German teenage boy walks behind a horse plowing a field; boys and girls playing amid rubble of buildings; German boys playing on moving turnstile equipment or a moving partial antiaircraft gun platform in a bombed railroad yard. Wide view of German children playing on top of a giant mound of dirt and rubble from bombing. Older German man delivers a speech and people listen in a hall. A German school teacher in a classroom (possibly a church, with crucifix on wall behind him), and crowd of children in the classroom. Chalk board at front of room. German boys seated at desks with pencils and paper doing school work.
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