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People gather at the railroad station in London to greet Metro-Vickers Affair staff returning home after Soviet spy-trials

Freed British industrial engineers and company executives from Metro-Vickers return home to London, England following show trial in the Soviet Union that alleged their involvement in espionage and so-called wrecking activities at Soviet electrical power stations. People at Liverpool Street station in London, England. A railroad train arrives on the railway track. Crowd greets Metro-Vickers Moscow Chief Allan Monkhouse and engineer Charles de Nordwall (C.H. Nordwall) on their return after the trials. Monkhouse and Nordwall pause and appear to talk to press. British police bobbies stand by train car. Nordwall and his wife enter a waiting car along with one other woman. View of Great Eastern Hotel entrance in background as car drives away.

Date: 1933, May 1
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063200
United States Coast Guard preparing for the Allied invasion of Normandy (WW2)

June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065477
Lindbergh couple and son Jon travel to England after receiving another kidnapping threat

Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and son Jon Lindbergh arrive in Liverpool England. A ship named SS American Importer arrives at the harbor. Lindbergh couple along with their baby son Jon walk out from the ship. Couple gets in the cab and moves ahead. Crowd of people gather to have a look. Cab passes through the crowd.

Date: 1936, January 8
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030776
Air Minister Wood arrives to inspect production of fast bombers at a big airplane plant in England.

Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood arrives at an airplane plant in Liverpool, England. Sir Wood arrives to inspect production of fast bombers. Men and women working inside the factory. Sir Wood along with other dignitaries inspecting the work. Semi completed airplanes inside the factory.

Date: 1939, April 17
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046122
King George V and Queen Mary with officials visit with subjects in Northern England during World War I

King George V and Queen Mary with officials visit a defense factory in Liverpool during World War 1. They greet a number of the war production workers, personally. In change of scene, the royal couple and entourage visit with military nurses and doctors waiting to greet them. The Queen carries a parasol as they walk. . They greet a group of local officials, individually, as they are introduced by a woman escort, reading from a list. A large group of well-wishers stand outdoors with children at their front, to greet the King and Queen. They wave as the royal motorcar drives away, near a harbor.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024136
Hospital Ship, Atlantis, carrying exchange wounded Allied Prisoners of War back to England In World War II

In the first exchange of Allied and Axis wounded prisoners of war, the British Hospital Ship, Atlantis, with number 33 painted on her side, steams into port, at Leith, Scotland, (and then on to Liverpool, England) during World War 2. She is returning Allied wounded from Germany, by way of Goeteborg, Sweden. British soldiers are carried off ship on stretchers. Several ambulatory American soldiers leave ship on foot. Railroad train seen right at the port.

Date: 1943, October
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024679