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British soldiers cross a hill on motorbikes in England.

Maneuvers of the British Army in England. British troops come at a sea shore. They climb up a hill. A sea in the background. The troops climb down. They ride motorbikes. Water on a road splashes as a soldier drives through it. The soldiers park their bikes beside the road. They take their guns and lay down in prone positions. Trucks go across barbed wire barriers. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675046736
Wife of heroic pilot with her baby. She displays his burned shoe and flight suit. He won Victoria Cross and is recuperating.

Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046738
British twin engine Gloster Meteor jet planes take off and in flight in England.

Gloster Meteor twin engine British jet plane at an airstrip in England. The engines of the jet plane. Pilot sits in the cockpit. Crew member closes the cockpit. Signalman gives signal. Jets in flight. 7 jets in formation flight.

Date: 1944, April 9
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046771
A British RAF instructor teaches pilots about the attack methods to be used against B-29-like aircraft

British Fighter Tactics against B-29 aircraft (of potential belligerent nations), using the U.S. Army air Forces B-29 Superfortress in England as a model. A British instructor addresses the group on attacking B-29 bombing formations. British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots listen to a lecture. Instructor holds models of British Mentor Jet fighter in positions above a model of B-29. He shows a further attack against the B-29 through models. The instructor instructs the pilots about the attack methods used by the British Vampire and Meteor fighter against B-29s. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 17 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047107
British and Italian blimps and airships of World War I

A blimp is towed out of a canvas tent hangar. One ground crewman ducks into trench between tracks as the blimp advances out of tent hangar. Scene shifts to distant wide view of a large semi-rigid airship fully emerged from its permanent hangar. It has a machine gunner nest on top. This appears to be an Italian made M.4, M.5, M.6, M.7, or M.8 semi-rigid, military use, single-gondola airship made by the Stabilimento Costruzioni Aeronautiche in Rome, and designed by Gaetano Crocco and Ottavio Ricaldoni. Next scene shows a medium wide shot of an airship, likely a SS Zero (SSZ) airship having just emerged from a hangar, and three other airships in the background. (This is possibly at Cranwell in the UK, and may be a ship of the British Royal Air Service or a US Navy airship, as the U.S. Navy was conducting airship training there with SSZ airships.) The SSZ were submarine scout aircraft used to spot German U-boats in World War 1. Next scene is an aerial view of gunner manning a machine gun atop an Italian M class airship, mounted on a pedestal surrounded by a circle of protective railing, on the top of the envelope. Next shot shows a view on the ground of a gondola for an airship Its fuel tanks, and various operating equipment are seen. Engine radiators and Blades of its twin propellers are partially seen at the top of the gondola. An officer walking within the framework of the gondola. Officer appears to be wearing an Italian Navy uniform cap.

Date: 1918
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048470
82nd Airborne troopers prepare England for invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Preparations in England for the Allied invasion of France during World War II. U.S. Army 82nd Airborne soldiers with equipment as they prepare to board an aircraft. Men load into buses as a motorcycle escort leads a convoy of buses through a farmland. Men get down from the buses and walk into hangar being used as barracks. Soldiers issued new equipment including life vests, ammunition and grenades. Medical supplies are checked. A jazz band of servicemen plays and men do pushups and calisthenics. Men play handball and volleyball. They read and write letters to loved ones at home. Men sharpen, check and work on knives and rifles. They clean and oil the rifles and attach bayonets. Soldiers paint invasion stripe marks on C-47 aircraft readying it for the D-Day invasion of France.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048606