Trucks arrive at Toddington Manor (Toddington, Cheltenham GL54 5DN, United Kingdom) in Gloucestershire, England. British children playing jump rope as vehicles transport tanks on the road. Rows of aircraft are transported by vehicles into town. The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. A crane moves boxes. Boxes move in conveyer belts. Sacks, boxes, and crates stored at a distribution point. A man drives a forklift transporting boxes inside a warehouse. Military supplies arriving in Britain from the United States. Piles of tires, barbed wires, concrete tubes stored in docks and warehouses. Cranes move oil barrels into a pile. Military locomotives and freight cars bound for continental Europe at a railway yard. Soldiers open a crate containing a United States Army truck. A crane lowers a tank. A man inspects a row of military trucks. Rows of M3 half-track armored personnel carriers and M4 Tractors in England. A man helps a tank back up. Rows of tanks, artillery, and guns from the United States. Men stocking shells inside an underground storage. Piles of shells outdoors. A truck transports shell. Rows of fighters at an airfield. A man moves a search light at night. Anti-aircraft guns fire at German night bombers attempting to attack bases in the United Kingdom. Barrage balloons fly above warships. A sailor drops an anti-ship mine in the sea. Minesweepers seek and destroy such mines from the sea. Consolidated PBY-5A attacks a German ship.
The London Blitz. Sections of London ablaze from German bombing during Battle of Britain. US President Franklin Roosevelt signing H.R. 1946, Lend-Lease legislation in World War II. View of last page of H.R.1946, signed by Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and by President Roosevelt. United States sends war material to England. 'USA' written on Lend-Lease boxes being loaded on lorry after arrival in Britain. Huge crates of Lend-Lease war materiel on railroad flat cars pulled by locomotive. Smoke rises up from the engine. 'Machine tools, BULLARD, Bridgeport Conn.' written on crate in transit.
Baseball game of the Anglo American Baseball League at Highbury in London,England, during World War 1. United States Navy and United States Army teams enter the field. United States Navy Admiral William Sowden Sims throws the first pitch. Spectators cheer the teams. Army wins the game beating Navy.
Victory in Europe Day celebrated in London, England towards the end of World War II. British civilians move around the city. The civilians buy British and United States flags. Various buildings draped with British flags. A British flag flutters on the top of a building. The civilians celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Soldiers walk into a church. Church services attended by United States soldiers and Canadian Women's Army Corps.
Victory in Europe Day celebrations at the end of World War II, London, England. Airmen of United States Air Force 303rd Bomb Group sit together, smile and appear jubilant on Victory in Europe day. Two airmen read a newspaper with a headline 'Germany Quits'. They shake hands and celebrate the Allied victory in World War II.
Vietnam War demonstrations in front of the United States Embassy in London, England. General view of Pro-American group, carrying American, British, and South Vietnamese flags and plaques. Pro-American Group carries a South Korean flag. Some of the banners read “Southampton University Monday Club” and “Stop Vietcong Terror”. Plaques being carried by the group as they march. Mounted Police and Foot Patrolman standing by along the street. The large mob of Anti-American Demonstrators, peace activists, and anti-war demonstrators with the North Vietnamese flag and a poster of Che Guevara. Crowd being dispersed by the police. Various banners are being carried by the demonstrators. Demonstrators are being pushed by the police. Grosvenor Square showing the square filled with demonstrators milling around. Foot Patrol on the sidewalk. Large mob of demonstrators in the square. The bare tree branches in Grosvenor Square show demonstrators.
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