U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Hamburg, Germany during World War II. View of Heligoland island and its coastline. The B-17s in flight. Aerial views of target island. On Hamburg: Thick smoke rises from burning oil storage tanks and a refinery on fire. Coastal installations on islands. Smoke and fire from a coastal oil depot.
A U.S. Coast Guard report shows the 'story of a transport' depicting activities of Coast Guard troops and officers aboard USS Wakefield in the United States during World War II. Ships at a sea near port of the United States. Truck, supplies, aircraft and other equipment are lowered on to a ship by a crane. A sign board outside the office of a captain reads "US Coast Guard, Captain of Port". The captain and another officer work on a map at a table in his office. USS Wakefield anchored at the port. The U.S. flag on the ship. The ship is painted and cleaned. Bags of mail are loaded aboard the ship. Army officers in an office discuss at a table. Troops carrying luggage board the ship for transport to the war front. The ship is unanchored. It departs from New York harbor. Shadow of an airship on water. The ship underway at sea. A CG ( Coast Guard ) officer looks through binoculars. A crewman turns a wheel. Coast Guard troops and officers work in the ship's engine room and radio room.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police in the United States during World War 2. Workers walk in lines and are being checked by Military Police (MPs) as they enter a port. An MP monitors loading of cargo at the port. An MP standing and traffic in the background.
Crowds at Blackpool front, a seaside town in Lancashire, England, during World War 2. The front of the Blackpool front. A sidewalk with soldiers pass in the foreground. Allied soldiers with girls in uniform getting off a horse carriage. American and British uniformed men and passers walk along a road showing atmosphere of any typical seaside town. American soldiers talk to English girls. Sign over a boardwalk play target range reads, "Learn to Shoot - Give Hitler the Works" with a caricature of Hitler on it. The crowds walk in front. American soldiers and British girls drink at a tea stall called that is shaped like a giant tea pot, and has a banner overhead that says "Jugs of tea."
Home of cartoonist David Low in Golders Green in London, England. Exterior of Mr. David Low's house. Mr. Low leaves the house. He walks along a road and opens the gate of his house. He walks up a path and goes towards the front door. Mr. Low goes through morning newspapers with his daughter, sitting his garden. Mrs. Low walks past them with a bunch of flowers, picked from her garden. Mr. Low carefully studies all the newspapers of each day and keeps himself in touch with world affairs. Mr. Low talks to his daughter as they go through the morning newspapers. He makes notes. Mr. Low at work on a cartoon at his drawing board in his studio at his house. He works on the cartoon of Colonel Blimp. Bourke white picture of Low on a wall in a corner. View of the drawing and Low's signature on it.
USS Shangri La (CV-38) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia during her launching. Ground views of USS Shangri La (CV-38) on ways. Workers in the foreground. Ground views of Shipyard. Workers on dock wave to workers on flight deck of ship.
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