Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to England from Morocco. An aircraft named 'Silver city' lands and taxis at an airfield. Winston Churchill and his wife get off the aircraft. People gathered around him. He talks to people after his return from Morocco. He gets in a car and leaves. Churchill gets off the car and poses.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from the coast of Sicily just before the invasion by American troops. Explosions occur on a beach as aircraft drop 500 and 1000 pound bombs. U.S. support boats with beach barrage rockets head towards the coast of Sicily. Troops aboard the support boats as they head for the coast. Mountains in the background.
Animation of an atom bomb blast. Arrows pointing away and down show ground impact along with formation of shock wave. Chalk board drawing shows static over pressure versus dynamic pressure from blast. The overpressure shockwave pattern is shown. Chalk board animation shows a shock wave destroying a house and tree. Animation demonstrating the weight of burst versus the distance affecting shock wave. Animation showing angle of the blast changing and affecting pressure to target. Low angle blast is shown as only 5 psi. The complex shape of a shock wave shown in drawing.
Soldier arrange small bombs in ruins of an old building in Poland. Soldier takes out small bombs from cellar and neatly arrange piles of bombs. Polish soldier uses detector to look for bombs on the ground. Soldier digs a hole using bare hands after detector found a bomb. Soldier extracts bomb from the ground. Soldier hands bomb over to comrade. Soldier digs for more bomb and hands over to his comrade. Soldiers carrying bombs on their shoulders. Bombs of various sizes lying down are neatly arranged. Soldiers arrange bombs into piles rectangular hole. Soldier places a detonator device over bombs. Explosion in bomb detonating site. Soldiers detonate bombs in a deserted and devastated Polish town.
Jewish refugees from Europe arriving in Palestine after World War 2. Crowd of people enter a railway car. Police guarding security check point made of sandbags outside train station as a convoy of military trucks carrying Jewish passengers pulls up. Jewish women and men climb down from back of a truck. An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Palestinian women and men in train platform. Sign above platform directs travelers to different platforms for Jerusalem and Haifa. Smiling Jewish families, including a small boy holding his father's hand, queue up at the railroad train station. People waving good-bye from train windows as train departs the station.
The Haganah immigration ship, Haim Arlozorov, off the coast of Bat-Galim, Haifa with 1378 Jewish refugees from Italy and Sweden. British Palestinian coast guard ship confronts the Haim Arlozoroff (also formerly the USCGC Unalga (WPG-53). The Haim Arlozorov after running aground seen from beach as British soldiers patrol nearby. British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Chiefstain intercepts the Haim Arlozorov. Jewish refugees onboard the Haim Arlozorov, with a sign in Hebrew and the name “Haim Arlozorov”. British navy personnel escort Jewish refugees out of the ship. Jewish refugees, mostly female refugees, on the coast of Bat-Galim. Lifeboat pulls up alongside the Haim Arlozorov. Refugees are processed dockside after disembarking. British soldiers carry a man on a stretcher, injured during fight to prevent the British from capturing the ship. British medic escorts a young female Jewish refugee along the dock. British soldiers sitting on the beach watching the interception of the Haim Arlozorov.
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