Allied ships near Bournemouth, England, during World War 2. Soldiers on Landing Ships at sea. Cliffs off the coast in the water. Soldiers seated near a U.S. flag on a ship. Battleships advance during the day and at dusk. Footage then changes to monochrome and different content: German 'buzz bombs' (V-1) fired by the Germans come flying from the sky. Artillery and machine gun fire by the British troops. British Mosquito fighters destroy buzz bombs in mid air. A buzz bomb get through and explosion is seen as it impacts. Views of rubble and wounded civilian on stretcher in England, in aftermath of a German buzz bomb attack.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Opening scenes show bomb damage due to German Luftwaffe blitzkrieg air raids (The Blitz) in Southern Counties of London earlier during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Firemen and rescue workers try to extinguish the fires with water hoses. The rescue workers conduct operations amidst bomb damaged buildings and rubble. Severely damaged buildings. Rubble strewn all over the streets in England. A Food Flying Squad van makes its way on the streets. Food distributed from the van. A British man walks amidst the rubble. Relief work in progress. Buckets of food and water lying at camps. Displaced civilian people eat and drink. London civilian residents evacuate numerous areas. Evacuees walk across a bridge. Big Ben seen in the background. Allied bombers in flight. Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito aircraft track and shoot down enemy aircraft. The dogfights result in mid air explosions. Two soldiers operate a U.S. radar designed to direct antiaircraft fire in combat area. The radar tracks a target moving up to 600 miles an hour. The soldiers track down aerial targets, the gun directors make adjustments and the antiaircraft guns are fired at buzz bombs. Enemy V-1 Flying bombs are hit and downed before they can reach the coastline. German V-1 rockets are tracked over England by radar and shot down. An V-1 is hit. It descends to the ground and explodes. France: A downed V-1 flying bomb is examined. The wreckage of a V-1 in a field. Soldiers and civilians near the wrecked V-1 Flying Bomb
War bond rally in England during World War II. Commander of the U.S. 8th Air Force Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle purchases a war bond at a booth and signs a register. American soldier seated on ground as Military Policemen (MP) stand in the foreground. Soldiers including WACs (Women's Army Corps) run across for seats before the Army Air Forces band. MPs march. Military band marches. Soldiers seated as Major Glenn Miller speaks into a microphone about the war bonds. Members of the Army Air Forces band play various instruments and sing. Soldiers applaud in appreciation. Lieutenant General Doolittle and other officers listen to the band play.
A war bond rally in England during World War II. American soldiers stand in a formation of 'V8'. Commander of the U.S. 8th Air Force Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle purchases a war bond at a booth and signs a register. Photographers take pictures. Soldiers in a formation of V8. Soldiers take their seats in front of the Army Air Forces band. Major Glenn Miller leads the band. The band plays. Officers seated in chairs applaud. Glenn Miller signs an autograph.
Fishing dock scene in England in the 1930s as large harvests of Herring and bloater fish glut the market. Men load large numbers of herring and bloater fishes from ships into baskets at a fish processing pier on the east coast of England. Baskets of fish are hoisted from the ships to the docks. Women carry the fish baskets. Group of women clean the fish and put them into large barrels. A woman worker arranges some fish and then smiles for the camera.
U.S. Paratroopers boarding C-47 aircraft, on June 5th, 1944 during World War 2. Huge naval task force underway in the English Channel. C-47s loaded with paratroopers taking off, the evening of June 5th. C-47s taking off towing gliders. Formations of C-47s and gliders passing over the Naval task force in the English Channel. Three pet dogs with troops on one of the ships.
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