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Overhead aircraft keep a watch on British and U.S. troop transports underway in the English Channel during World War I.

The British Fleet guards transports carrying American and British forces to France during World War I. Overhead aircraft keep a watch. A British convoy underway in the English Channel. View of airships overhead.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050557
British warships protecting shipping and convoys in the English Channel during World War I

British Royal Navy efforts to protect shipping and convoys in the English Channel during World War 1. Boats are seen behind a breakwater on coast in United Kingdom, during World War 1. A British two-stacker I- class destroyer underway with black smoke pouring from its funnels. British soldiers with weapons and personal gear at a rail yard, with train in background. They descend stairs to a pier and board a crowded troop ferry ship. Two troop ferries underway in the English Channel. View of the British Monitor ship, "Marshal Soult" mounting two 15-inch guns. British soldiers loaded aboard two troop ships departing the United Kingdom (one is a side-wheeler). Women on the pier waving goodbye. A British gunboat underway. View from stern of a boat putting out a good wake. A dirigible low over the water and a steaming warship seen in background. Workmen marching across the mole protecting the German submarine (U-boat) base at Zeebrugge, Belgium (Slate says before it was blown up by the British). (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043159
Montage of battle scenes during major Allied counter offensive in World War I

Following bold attacks by German forces against English Channel ports in France, French General Ferdinand Foch orders a counter attack by all Allied armies. The film then depicts a montage of war scenes, growing shorter and in quicker succession as the film proceeds. Allied soldiers advancing across open fields on a broad front during counter offensive following German attacks against English Channel ports in France, during World War 1. Allied gunners firing French 75 field artillery pieces. A shell explosion close to the camera. Dead horses next to a destroyed wagon. German shells bursting in the field among advancing Allied troops running across wide open fields. A French machine gun firing. German soldiers moving along a road in woods, while under shell fire. German troops running across a field towards the camera, with one struck by gunfire and falling. A German soldier falling right in front of the camera. Other fallen German and Allied soldiers. American troops charging up a hill, and some falling to German machine gun fire. View of German machine gun nest firing. Frantic succession of battle scenes and carnage on both sides. Soldiers carrying wounded on litters. Dead lying in trenches. Smoke, fire, explosions. French troops marching through a town where lingering gas affects their eyes. Artillery being fired by both sides, including heavy siege mortars. More views of dead and wounded soldiers. Railroad guns firing. Artillery troops racing on horseback with teams of horses pulling artillery and caissons. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044458
Buildings and a cathedral are damaged due to bombing of London, Britain and bombing near ships in the English Channel.

Areas of England are bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Smoke rises from a bombed portion of Coventry following a blitzkrieg or blitz attack by the German Luftwaffe aircraft over London and other cities in England. British enlisted men and civilians walk around bombed buildings. Debris and rubble in the foreground. The bombed and gutted St Michaels Cathedral (St Michaels Coventry Cathedral 1 Hill Top, Coventry CV1 5AB, UK) in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Military men look at the devastation and effects of the bombing. A bomb demolished building in the foreground. Rubble and debris on the streets in other British cities. Civilians walk through the ruins of the bombed buildings. Scene changes to English Channel as bombs hit near an unidentified British ship. German aircraft in formation fly through flak bursts. Bomb bursts near the stern of a ship in the English Channel. The Cliffs of Dover in the background. German bombing near three British merchant ships in the English Channel. The coastline of the English Channel is seen in the background.

Date: 1940, November 14
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068881
Aviation History in France; early airplane history and notable French aviation pioneers.

Scene of a symbol which demonstrates man's desire for flight. Painting of Leonardo da Vinci. Drawing of Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine. Views of drawings of the attempts of man to fly. Photo of Clement Ader. Drawing of Ader's plane. Still photo of the first powered Wright Brother's plane. Still photo of one of Ader's planes. Photo of Louis Blériot. Gabriel Voisin's photo. Picture of Robert Esnault-Pelterie. Two French designers. Robert Esnault-Pelterie making a test by mounting a glider atop a truck. Gabriel Voisin towing a glider with boats on the Seine River. He stayed airborne for several seconds. Photo of Alberto Santos-Dumont. The plane in which he made several flights. A plane made by Gabriel Voisin "La Bagatelle" which was flown by his brother Charles Voisin. Scene of this flight. Henry Farman seated in plane. Several views depicting the first attempt to fly the English Channel. Three competitors were Count Lambert in a Wright Plane at Wissant, Hubert Lathan in Antionette IV at Sangatte and Louis Bleriot (winner) flying a monoplane of his own design from Los Baraques to Dover. Single of Bleriot's plane. Observers of the flight. The English Channel. The wreckage being salvaged by French boat. Wreckage of plane as it is lifted out of the channel. Wreckage being pulled down streets. Louis Bleriot walking on crutches. Bleriot standing in cockpit of plane prior to, attempting to fly the English Channel at Les Baraques. The takeoff. Observers watching the landing at Dover, England. Two men standing on roof top waving a flag. Field, tent and personnel at Dover, England where the landing was made. English people examining plane after landing. Ship on which Bleriot returned to France. Reception committee greeting him. Street scenes of his reception in Paris.

Date: 1909
Duration: 7 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675034508
Seabees construct an artificial harbor during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II.

A film about the role of U.S. Navy Seabees in construction of artificial harbors in the English Channel during the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. U.S. Navy Captain Clark, in charge of artificial harbors and Commander Calair, in charge of installing Phoenixes and pier heads in the English Channel. Ships underway in the English channel. Tugs at a harbor. Beetles being pulled. A tug prepares to tow a Phoenix. Men work on lines. Whales spread across the channel. Pier head at sea. A dumb barge underway at sea. A captain looks at the towing operation from the bridge of a vessel. Aircraft in flight. Crew aboard a phoenix. Gliders in flight above the convoy. A signalman sends a blinker signal. Animated diagram depicts the creation of an artificial harbor. First tow arrives at Normandy on June 6, 1944. Landing crafts at the Normandy beach. Artificial harbor being constructed. A bridge being completed and pier head being attached to it. Seabees at work.

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077914
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