British women workers at a farm during World War I. They sit on a farm tractor, most wearing white overcoats. The women plow a field using three different farm tractors. A few men observe nearby.
Aircraft recognition instruction for the British Lancaster Bomber during World War II. Lancaster moves on runway and takes off. Diagrammatic description of the Lancaster design. Lateral view shows four engines attached to the flat wing which is oval at the end. Long flat fuselage curved from tip and tail. Oval shaped small wing at the tail. Side view describes the design of tip in shape of number 3. One of the egg shaped twin tails at the end. Front view diagrammatic design shows four under slung engines and other specifications of the Lancaster.
Aircraft recognition training film. British Lancaster Bomber in England. Lancaster moves on runway and takes off. Lancaster is the modified version of Manchester bomber used earlier. Differentiation of Lancaster from other heavy bomber aircraft. Drawings contrast the design of the British Lancaster with the following: Manchester, Russian TB-7, German FW-200, British Halifax, American B-17E, British Stirling and American B-24 heavy bombers.
Anchor being raised on an allied military ship. Ships at sea. Floating piers of concrete and steel being towed across channel. Barrage balloons over ships. Allied Troops on landing craft. Wake of a Coast Guard cutter. Allied bombers in the air heading toward targets in France. Soldiers seated and standing on landing craft, and quietly contemplating the task ahead. Antiaircraft guns firing at German warplane. German warplane destroyed and parachuted pilot descending. Ships in convoy heading for coast of France. Views of religious services being led by chaplains on the decks of Allied ships, before the D-Day invasion of France in the Normandy region.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh in England. A large crowd waits as Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of Saint Louis lands. People rush towards his plane. People climb the roof of a building to get a better view. Lindbergh addresses the crowd from a balcony, using a loud speaker. Photographers climb up the roof to click pictures. The U.S. flag on a pole.
Contribution of British working women to the war effort in England during World War 2. British women prepare for German aerial warfare Battle of Britain. British women stand and talk. A woman reads from a paper. British women put up barrage balloons and man the antiaircraft guns. British women working jobs that are traditionally handled by men. They work on a train. Another woman cleans a wheel. Women fly and taxi planes. Women in war time drive ambulances and buses. They cook food and serve it to men. British men and women work overtime in a various factories, including war production factories on airplane production and operating various industrial equipment. A British woman welding with a mask. Workers yawn. Two British soldiers with guns walk. The Germans begin their bombing campaign in the Battle of Britain. A British soldier leaves a house. Soldiers walk with rifles on their shoulders. People greet British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He waves to the people. British people listen to excerpt from Churchill speech on radio with his famous lines "We shall fight on beaches..." and "We shall never surrender." British Soldiers move up a hill. View of barbed wire defenses with Big Ben clock tower in distance behind. British civilian man covering a newly built Anderson Shelter (air raid shelter) with dirt. British civilians walking. Soldiers march and work. A man on a horse cart. An air raid by German aircraft begins and an alarm sounds. British boy and girl children look up in the sky and then run for shelter. Blitz Air attack on London by Nazi German Luftwaffe aircraft during Battle of Britain. A warden blows his whistle and runs, guiding citizens into an underground shelter. Parents are seen trying to fit gas masks onto young British children and an infant, as the children squirm and protest.
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