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Bombing of British embassy in Rome in Italy
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy by terrorists after World War 2. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. A pile of rubble at the damaged area of the embassy. People with umbrellas flock to street to see the wreckage of the explosion. Italian carabinieri investigate the explosion. Rubble and damage inside the embassy. A young carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. A gaping hole from the damage of the British Embassy. The explosion was caused by eighty pounds trinitrotoluene (TNT) planted in two suitcases, injuring three people.
German troops fight house to house against Allied (mostly British) forces in Arnhem Netherlands during World War 2
During Operation Market Garden, German soldiers move forward on foot and on bicycles in Arnhem and other areas of Netherlands during World War II. German infantry find abandoned American and British equipment. They open a cigarette tin from their findings, share cigarettes all around, smoking and smiling. German infantry, including some very young German soldiers march along a roadway. House to house fighting between British and German forces in Dutch towns and villages of Arnhem region. Germans take British and American soldiers as prisoners and search them thoroughly. Allied POWs are marched between locations and guarded at roadsides, including near a building with sign that says "Maarland" on it (likely hamlet of Maarland, or present day Oost-Maarland). Near end of clip German narrator references Operation Berlin withdrawal and rescue effort being conducted by Allies to try to remove remaining Allied forces from the region.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Admiral Bertram Ramsey on board a ship in region of Normandy, France, D-Day plus 3.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Admiral Bertram Ramsey on bridge of the British Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser HMS Apollo as it moves across the ocean in Normandy, France. General Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey sail on the HMS Apollo for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. Soldiers lined up and salute the officers. British Field Marshal General Bernard Montgomery comes aboard the HMS Apollo. Soldiers salute to welcome Marshal Montgomery. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
U.S. General Eisenhower inspects wrecked German equipment and meets with British Field Marshal Montgomery during World War II
Film opens showing General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking into a microphone, in France during World War 2 around time of liberation of Paris. Next, he is seen photographing a knocked out German StuG III tank destroyer and inspecting an overturned Tiger tank. Closeup of him examining the overturned tank. Next Eisenhower is seen in the back seat of a staff car, parked beside a large dwelling. A change of scene shows him strolling with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery across a pasture where British troops are encamped. The two leaders examine a map with other officers and continue walking together. Later, General Eisenhower photographs destroyed German artillery. While standing in a field littered with destroyed German military vehicles, he is approached by a British officer and British soldier. Eisenhower converses with the officer. An American Army photographer walks along a road littered with German wreckage, on his way to photograph General Eisenhower. Camera pans over damaged German artillery pieces and a destroyed Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A, armored personnel carrier. As Eisenhower is about to board his staff car, two little French girls give him a bouquet of flowers. He thanks them and shakes their hands.
U.S. SECNAV Franklin Knox visits U.S. Admiral Harold Stark and British Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram H Ramsay in London during World War II
Franklin Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) shakes hands with U.S. Navy Admiral Harold Stark, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, British Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram H Ramsay, and other British and American naval officers, after visiting them in Stark's headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, London, England, during World War 2. Secretary Knox enters a car. Scene shifts to an RAF airfield where Secretary Knox stands with Admiral Stark and two military aides,near the wing of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane. Stark and Knox stand together and then Knox bids Stark goodbye, as he prepares to board the C-47 airplane. Admiral Stark salutes as Secretary Knox climbs aboard the plane. Admiral Stark and aides wave goodbye as the aircraft taxis out. Several members of British Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) walk across the airfield ramp, as the C-47 taxis out for takeoff
Evacuation of the British troops from Dunkirk
Evacuation of the British and Allied troops from Dunkirk beginning May 26, 1940. The troops at the beaches of Dunkirk. Smoke rising from Dunkirk with views of houses in foreground. British troops helped aboard boats in the water, some jumping down from large ships. View of smoke rising from Dunkirk on horizon as troops depart. The soldiers sleeping at sea after being rescued from Dunkirk. Wounded helped from boats as they return to British soil. The soldiers smoking after successful evacuation and giving the 'thumbs up' sign. Troops looking out windows of railroad car and smiling. (World War II period).
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