Activities in and around the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) station at Fylingdales in England. View across a valley to radomes on hilltop. Aerial view of houses and trees. A sign board reads: 'National Park'. Car passing on the street. U.S. Air Force rest hotel and village on the coast.
Activities of people at a large outdoor swimming pool in England, during World War 2.. Many people swimming in the pool. Large modernistic building in the background. Some U.S. airmen, on furlough (not identified) enjoy the pool too. A man in white trunks dives from high board into the pool. Two boys go down huge slide into the pool. Group of swimmers look on. Many people swimming in the pool.
Scenes from filming of "Combat America" during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Force personnel,on furlough, take rides on horse-drawn coaches, near seaside resort, in England. Driver and young woman seated aboard coach pulled by four horses. Several British dwellings in the background. U.S. Army Air Force personnel climb aboard horse-drawn coaches.
HMS M1 submarine of Britain performs maneuvers before docking for repairs in Chatham, England. The British Royal Navy M-class submarine sailing. Crewmen standing near gun turret. 13-inch gun turret moving. The M1 submarine submerges. The 13-inch gun of the M1 submarine firing before submerging into the waters. British Navy crew on deck.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns from Munich at Heston Aerodrome in London, England. Large crowd gathers. He meets dignitaries present at aerodrome. Prime Minister addresses people nearby plane. Photographers click photos. He talks about settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem. He holds a paper in hand.
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