The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb
Suggestions being given to U.S. servicemen to be assigned to posts in Great Britain. U.S. Officer walking with a woman in a park. U.S. Airmen visit shrine with statues of British literary figures, including those of John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. View of British Houses of Parliament. Big Ben clock tower at Parliament striking. View of a ceremony occurring at the Standing Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln, at Parliament Square, Canning Green, in London, England. Unveiling of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Statue at Grosvenor Square in London England on April 12, 1948.
German Luftwaffe aircraft bomb England in the Battle of Britain during World War II. German Luftwaffe He-111 bombers in flight. Pilots and gunners in the aircraft. Interior views of cockpit and crew in German He-111 aircraft. Aerial views of the formation of bomber aircraft in flight through clouds and approaching the British coast for a daylight raid. A co-pilot charts the route using a compass. Pilot is seen putting on an oxygen mask with assistance from another crew member as the bombers climb to high altitude. Gunners in their positions. Views of target zone approaching as seen from point of view of German bomber crew members in daytime. Pilot, navigator, gunner prepare for the attack. Aerial view of the target area. The Germans experience FLAK from British antiaircraft guns. Flak bursts near aircraft as seen from inside the German aircraft. "Bombs away" aerial views from the side, and from inside the German aircraft. Bombs descend on the targets. Scene shifts to bombardment at night. The German crew in the aircraft. Using search lights and antiaircraft guns, British attempt to hit the bombers. Multiple views of crew inside He-111 bombers from various angles, including behind nose gunner and bombardier. Flashes and explosions seen on the ground as bombs hit targets in London and elsewhere in Britain during blitzkrieg, or blitz attack.
Scenes from the New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane) (or Long Island Express) (or The Great Hurricane of 1938). Hurricane hitting U.S. Eastern Seaboard on September 21, 1938. The Coast from New Jersey to New England felt its effect. Cars and people drenched with water in streets. Policemen wade through hip deep water. New York is whipped by 70 mile-an-hour winds and the raging sea pouring tons of water far inland. A man retreats from a dock as waves pour water on him. Outcome of hurricane shows broken ships, downed trees, and devastation at the water front in coastal areas including Atlantic City, New London Connecticut, and Long Island. Firemen in New London Connecticut battle fires. Aerial view of destroyed shoreline and beached boats in New London. Broken cars crushed by fallen trees. Crowds gather to look at damage as a lone sentry guards against looting. Boats along the Atlantic Coast are destroyed. A boat is seen on a road in front of Merkel's Delicatessen. View of a train that was derailed by the hurricane on Long Island. Shot of a car that was carried far off a roadway and impaled on an upright beam.
General Sir Alan Brooke, Prime Minister of UK, Winston Leonard S Churchill and General Jan Smuts on a ship sailing towards a beachhead in France. Views of Generals talking.
The Bodleian Library,Oxford England. A librarian walks down the steps of the library and, using a ladder, removes a large map volume from a shelf filled with such books. He removes, and later returns, a tattered volume from a set of very old books entitled in French "Couris de Londres" (The Court of London). A shelf of books entitled "Oxford Chronicles" dating from 19th Century. Librarian replacing books into the stacks, in basement areas of the library. Librarian walking outside ancient walls of the building, carrying books. He uses keys to open heavy doors at sidewalk level and enters with the books.
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