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Air attacks on Britain by Germany and the counter-attack by British Royal Air Force during Battle of Britain in World War II.

British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain during World War 2. A British soldier looks through binoculars and another soldier sits. A soldier on a tank. German aircraft in flight above the English Channel. The planes drop bombs on the British ships. Explosions in the water of the English Channel. Royal Air force (RAF) pilots are scrambled on alert and run towards their planes. The planes take off. British planes attack the German planes and engage in aerial dogfights. A German plane falls in the ocean. Damaged German plane. 180 more German planes put to attack. A pictorial representation shows the places in England attacked by Germany. Explosions on the ground. Various British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft in the air and on the ground. German attacks on Southampton and British ports. German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on British airfields, but British aircraft seen hidden individually near farms and homes and not grouped together in order to evade destruction by German Luftwaffe bombing campaigns.

Date: 1940, August 8
Duration: 5 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031682
German blitz attack on London and damaged buildings during Battle of Britain in World War II.

Blitz (blitzkrieg) air attack on London by Germany during World War II. German officers led by Goering plan a attack on Britain. The officers stand in front of a map and discuss. German aircraft stationed. German planes take off. British officers in a control room receive reports from sighting stations of incoming Luftwaffe and scramble British spitfires. British aircraft take off in defense. British and German aircraft attack each other in multiple dogfight scenes including some gun camera footage. View from British machine gunner position firing at German aircraft. German fighter aircraft is hit and plunges toward the ground. A British man draws a swastika on brick in chalk beside a line of similar markings, indicating another downed German aircraft. German aircraft fly over London. They drop bombs. A man tries to save himself by ducking and covering his head in a low-lying area during the air attack. Typewriter or teletype machine typing out reports on downed aircraft. A woman tears the update from the machine and reads the report. A man reads a paper mentioning the total damage. Damaged German planes. Ruined buildings in London and the body of a woman buried in the ruins. Important buildings of London damaged, including: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, House of Commons, newspaper publishers on Fleet Street, and St Paul's Cathedral. British soldiers inspect crashed and damaged German warplanes.

Date: 1940, September 15
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031686
A night air attack on London with buildings ablaze during World War II as the German Luftwaffe continues blitzkrieg

Blitz air attack on London by Germany during World War II, focusing on night attacks in October of 1940 during Battle of Britain. Goering and Adolf Hitler sit and discuss. A German aircraft takes off for a blitz night air attack on London. British soldiers observe through binoculars. British soldiers play chess and pool. A soldier looks at a map. German planes bombs on the British soil. People gathered at air raid shelter. Homes and business offices on fire. British people sleep on a platform of an underground railway station (Leicester Square tube station underground) for protection during bombing. Man emerges from Anderson Shelter (family air raid shelter) after bombing. People move through ruins of their damaged houses after the attack. British citizens eat at lunch counters and homes and talk. A couple walks towards a house. A man holds a broken mirror in his hand and talks to a woman. Views of cleanup underway in streets after attack, and numerous damaged buildings in England from Luftwaffe Blitz. British civilians traveling to work through debris in streets. British men and women workers at work in a factory.

Date: 1940, October 6
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031687
British night bombers attack Bremen,and Germany retaliates by bombing Coventry, in World War II

A British citizen is seen waving and giving the "V for Victory" sign to trucks passing by carrying British troops during World War 2. View of British fliers assembled on the tarmac in front of a Vickers Wellington twin engine bomber, as a string of trolleys carrying bombs moves along the ground near them. Closeup of the bombs on the trolleys. British RAF officers at telephones discussing a night's planned mission involving 10 aircraft. Glimpse of Vickers Wellington bombers and trolleys of bombs on an airfield. RAF officer and assistants (including 2 women) discussing targeting. Officer mentions photographs of submarine yards and they study them. Scene shifts to the targeting officer briefing air crews about their night's mission, to bomb the German submarine and ship building yards at Bremen. View of photographs. View of aircrew members in briefing room. Views of aircrew boarding their Welllington bomber; engine running; and pilot in cockpit. Other Wellington bombers cranking up. The bombers takeoff at dusk. Pilot in one checking with his rear gunner, and radio operator, while they are in flight. Two bombers silhouetted against sky while in flight. Crew member annotating navigation log. Scene shifts to German pilots on the ground, being scrambled to their Messerschitt Bf 109 aircraft. German searchlights scan the sky and soldiers run to man their 12.8 cm Flak 40 antiaircraft guns. Flashes from these guns are seen in the darkness. Some British Wellington bombers flying through clouds with Flak bursts around them. Pilot in a bomber tells his crew they are entering a glide. View of bomber in sharp decent. Antiaircraft batteries firing rapidly. Bombardier at station in a bomber. View of bomb in bomb bay. Bombardier presses button releasing several bombs. Explosions on the ground. Antiaircraft batteries firing furiously. Pilot in cockpit illuminated by flare of bombs and fires. Camera pans across burning buildings on the ground. Closeup of Adolf Hitler vowing revenge. Slate reads: "November 14th, 1940." Views of German bomber aircraft in night raid over Britain during Battle of Britain. Bombs bursting and antiaircraft fire during blitz. View of Coventry, England, in the dawn after the raids. Destroyed and severely damaged buildings, some still burning. Aerial views of some of the destruction. People walking past rubble. Camera captures image as remains of one building collapse. Skeletons of buildings silhouetted against the foggy sky. Survivors on the streets huddle at a bulletin board to read news posted there. Teams of firefighters and others trying to deal with the destruction and pulling victims from the rubble and carrying them for burial in a common grave. Survivors placing garlands of flowers on the graves.

Date: 1940, November
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031688
The victory of Britain over Germany in Battle of Britain and loss of life and property in Europe during World War II .

The eventual victory of Britain over Germany in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Damaged buildings of London following German blitz air attacks. British people cheer for victory as Winston Churchill greets them and walks with them in the streets. Remains of German planes and tanks. Graves of German soldiers. An injured woman on a stretcher. The British soldiers and citizen rescue workers rescue British people. A British soldier stands near a gun barrel. Soldiers stand with guns. Adolf Hitler with other German officers. A statue of an eagle with a Nazi sign. German soldiers march carrying their flags. A soldier looks through binoculars. A British woman speaks about what it was like to endure the German blitzkrieg attacks and a man is beside her on a bench. British aircraft and Royal Air Force aviators stand near. British soldiers march. Close-up of propeller starting on a British spitfire aircraft. British Supermarine Spitfire aircraft in flight. British soldiers singing.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031690
Churches on fire and water is pumped from the river Thames to fight fires in London, England during Nazi blitz in World War II.

The work of London's fire guards during a German blitzkrieg incendiary bomb raid in Britain during World War II. Bombs fall and fire breaks out at night. Nighttime views following the Luftwaffe attack. London buildings and churches are on fire. St. Lawrence Jewry Church (Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AA, United Kingdom) on Gresham Street, designed by Christopher Wren, in ruins. Views of damage to St. Brides Church (Fleet St, London EC4Y 8AU, United Kingdom) on Fleet Street. Firemen spray water on the buildings and churches. Firefighters team up to connect 6,000 feet of 3 1/2-inch firehose from fire boats in the Thames River, to reach burning buildings of London. Firemen seen in relay lines connecting fire hoses and working to extinguish blazing fires.

Date: 1940, December 29
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031713