An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to listen to the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
U.S. troops, along with women volunteers sponsored by the YMCA ,take a sightseeing excursion by steamer,from Koblenz, in December, 1918.. Scenes of their visit to a monument. On board ship, U.S. army band musicians play music and a few couples dance. A few men dance with each other. At stopping place they visit and an army guide explains the site and its significance. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
(First half of clip has no sound). A long queue of fliers of Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift) outside a performance hall building. Fliers sitting in an auditorium. The gathering includes General Lucius Clay and Army Secretary Kenneth Claiborne Royall. Actor Bob Hope and Irvin Berlin perform to entertain them. Berlin jokes that he has changed his last name to Jones because in Berlin anything with the name "Berlin" is cut up into sectors.
Cloudburst hits Reichenhall,the famous spa town. Muddy water flow. Men move a huge stone lying amidst a road. Fallen and mud flooded houses are seen. Streets are rock washed
German national championship Track and Field events in 1936. Seen are Hammer thrower, 2 Shot putters (the second is Wollke who later won the Olympic title), Karl Kotraschek in the triple jump, Luz Long in the long jump, Gustav Weikotz in the high jump, Julius Müller in the Pole Vault. The Men's 100 meters, won by Gerd Hornberger is followed by Doris Eckert winning the 80 meters hurdles, and finally the men's 400 metres, won by Helmut Hamann
Funeral of Konrad Adenauer at Cologne's Cathedral. Film opens panning over front of the Cathedral. Flowers on coffin. Crowd gathers with family of Konrad Adenauer. A woman in black dress stands in the crowd. The President of United States Lyndon B Johnson and French President Charles de Gaulle sit with West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. Candles in the foreground. Soldiers bring coffin covered draped with the German flag. Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Willy Brandt, is seen among the mourners. Pallbearers proceed with the coffin, down the front steps of the Cathedral. Soldiers stand in line on sides of the steps. Next, the coffin is seen being towed along the road by a military vehicle to the Rhine (Rein) River for transport to his burial site at Rhöndorfer. Spectators watch respectfully from the roadsides
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