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Londoners gather near Downing Street as their Government acts during tense days just prior to Britain's entry into World War II

Londoners gather as their government makes momentous decisions on the eve of British entry into world War 2. Crowds gathered in London near Whitehall and Downing Streets. Bobbies hold traffic for an official car leaving Downing Street and turning right on Whitehall. Soon they repeat the process for another car leaving Downing Street. Soon the crowds on the opposite side of Whitehall move en masse across the street and cluster at the corner of Whitehall and Downing. Mounted police and other Bobbies maintain order. Some folks are seen relaxing on the lawn in St. James Park. The crowds gradually disperse and are seen walking along Whitehall, past the Cenotaph.

Date: 1939, August 21
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053829
Destruction in a city from German bombing during Battle of France in World War II. Refugees flee with their belongings

Refugees flee from advancing German forces during Battle of France in World War 2. Refugees fill a street transporting their belongings on bicycles and in horse-drawn wagons. A British Expeditionary Force soldier walks past them on the sidewalk. Camera pans to destroyed and burning buildings in the city. View from behind refugees as they move away. An automobile follows behind them. closeup of smoldering debris. Broken manequins beside destroyed clothing shop. A man stamps out some smoldering material, with his feet. Fire raging in a building. Cobblestones missing from street in front of burning building. Smoke from fires obscures view of street. Uniformed French soldiers remove some furniture from a burning building. More views of burning buildings, including one showing flames and heavy smoke billowing from top of a building.

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053840
Wounded soldiers carried on stretchers on a ramp at South Coast Port in England.

British and French Troops arrive from Dunkirk in steamers, destroyer boats and drifters. Soldiers aboard destroyer ships. Other ships in background including ship L94. They disembark at South Coast Port in England. Officer stands aboard. Wounded soldiers carried on stretchers on a ramp. Soldiers walk down a ramp. Officers stand in a group. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053848
Wounded soldiers lifted on stretchers at South Coast Port in England.

British and French Troops arrive from Dunkirk. They disembark at South Coast Port in England. Wounded soldiers carried on stretchers. Officers stand near. Destroyer ships in background. The stretchers are lifted up. Wounded soldiers are lifted into the ambulances. Soldiers walk in groups. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, May
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053849
General Maurice Gamelin arrives at a railway station in France.

General Maurice Gamelin visits General Gort at British General Headquarters in France. Men stand at a railway station. Railroad cars in the background. A train arrives on the railroad tracks. General Maurice Gamelin and other French officers at the railway station. Several cars on the street. People stand and watch as the cars pass.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053853
Josip Broz Tito's Partisans at the living quarters in Yugoslavia (WW2)

Josip Broz Tito's Partisans march in Yugoslavia during World War II. Buildings in the background. Partisans in the Partisans' living quarters. Men stand in chow line. Men take their meal. Several men seated in a room. Partisans rest. United States flag, British flag, Russian flag and Yugoslavia flag in view. Pictures of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Josip Broz Tito in the living quarters. A man writes a letter. Two men read war bulletin.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053872