French fliers get new U.S. warplanes in North Africa during World War II. United States Army Air Forces General Carl Andrew Spaatz and Major General James Harold Doolittle present at an air base. A soldier holding the U.S. flag. Soldiers march in formation. Officers review the soldiers and salute them. Aircraft parked at the airbase.
College boys practice crew rowing in Washington, United States. Students including National Champions from University of Washington Husky team seen at a dock carrying oars. They board crew boats. The boys row the boats during their first training session of the new spring season, despite World War 2.
Wounded British soldiers being unloaded from ships in the United Kingdom early during World War 2. Wounded soldier being loaded onto a passenger train at a train station platform. Winston Churchill with Prime Minister Chamberlain leave Westminster Abbey. Crowd of citizens awaits out front and and the Queen Mother with King George VI leave Westminster Abbey. British men disassembling iron fences in a British park and piling them up, presumably to be melted down and transformed into armament for the war effort. People working in factories in England during World War II. Artillery barrels or ship guns being manufactured . Newly completed rilfes lined up in a factory. War production workers in an ammunition factory producing bullets and more arms and weapons for British war effort. New British soldier recruits at a training camp begin training for military servcie. British men and a woman seen receiving rifle training in prone position, practicing how to fire rifles at targets. A man hits a golf ball aloft and then he and others standing nearby quickly grab rifles and attempt to fire at the ball, as practice training for firing at German paratroopers in the sky in the event of invasion.
The 23rd Reconnaissance Squadron National Guard being trained in Springfield, Illinois. The squadron gets new six ton armored cars. They learn 'Blitzkrieg' method of war. Men aboard the cars advancing on a field. Aircraft in flight overhead. They aim anti-aircraft guns from the cars at the aircraft.
A former German prisoner of war in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Former prisoner of war, Reinhold Pabel, is the proprietor of a local book store when the FBI locates him. Views of several shelves of books in the Chicago Book Mart store. Pabel places a book in a rack. His wife and 8 month old child are seen in the book store. Pabel plays with his son. He faces deportation back to Germany, after having established himself in Chicago under a new name.
New spring collection in Paris, France. Models display various costumes. They also display hats.
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