British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain during World War 2. A British soldier looks through binoculars and another soldier sits. A soldier on a tank. German aircraft in flight above the English Channel. The planes drop bombs on the British ships. Explosions in the water of the English Channel. Royal Air force (RAF) pilots are scrambled on alert and run towards their planes. The planes take off. British planes attack the German planes and engage in aerial dogfights. A German plane falls in the ocean. Damaged German plane. 180 more German planes put to attack. A pictorial representation shows the places in England attacked by Germany. Explosions on the ground. Various British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft in the air and on the ground. German attacks on Southampton and British ports. German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on British airfields, but British aircraft seen hidden individually near farms and homes and not grouped together in order to evade destruction by German Luftwaffe bombing campaigns.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier on a boat sees through binoculars. An aircraft lands on sea. German pilots are rescued and become British prisoners. Damaged German aircraft downed in Britain. Germans pause blitzkrieg campaign due to British Royal Air Force resistance. German soldiers shown having leisure time in their encampments. German military equipment idle. German long range artillery and rail guns attack England from a distance, firing over the English Channel. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses the people saying that Britain will win in the Battle of Britain, and Hitler is shown addressing the Reichstag and disagreeing with Churchill. German officers including Goering greet each other. They come out of a car. Various German bomber and attack aircraft take off again following an August 30 change in air war strategy by Goering and the Luftwaffe. British listening posts and control stations as well as fighter stations seen communicating, readying, and on high alert with anti-aircraft guns and RAF fighters to repel German attack. British spitfire aircraft take off to fight German Luftwaffe. A British soldier watches through binoculars. German aircraft drop bombs. View from inside German bomber nose position as it bombs a British airfield. A man blows a whistle in a British factory. British war production workers wear helmets and continue working at the munitions factory or ordnance factory during bombing air raid. Aerial view of British Spitfire pilots in dogfights shooting down German aircraft. British airplanes land and a pilot gives a report. He is asked, "Are you all right?" and he reports the German planes he downed.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Europe. A soldier stands near artillery gun on British shore. Adolf Hitler talks to Hermann Goering during a meeting at Berchtesgaden. A map of Europe and a finger points at London. Scenes of city of London. British civilian people move on the streets and cross a bridge on foot, with London Bridge in background. British soldiers standby at antiaircraft guns. A barrage balloon aloft in the sky. British spitfighter aircraft parked on airfield. Scenes of civilians building a Anderson Shelter (air raid shelter). A woman holds a child. Children arriving at a train station are evacuated from the city for their protection. Women crying as they watch children depart in railroad train cars for safer locations. Men carry bags on their backs bringing supplies to shelters. Fire crews practice to prepare for blitz raids by German aircraft during Battle of Britain. City streets during a night blackout.
Blitz (blitzkrieg) air attack on London by Germany during World War II. German officers led by Goering plan a attack on Britain. The officers stand in front of a map and discuss. German aircraft stationed. German planes take off. British officers in a control room receive reports from sighting stations of incoming Luftwaffe and scramble British spitfires. British aircraft take off in defense. British and German aircraft attack each other in multiple dogfight scenes including some gun camera footage. View from British machine gunner position firing at German aircraft. German fighter aircraft is hit and plunges toward the ground. A British man draws a swastika on brick in chalk beside a line of similar markings, indicating another downed German aircraft. German aircraft fly over London. They drop bombs. A man tries to save himself by ducking and covering his head in a low-lying area during the air attack. Typewriter or teletype machine typing out reports on downed aircraft. A woman tears the update from the machine and reads the report. A man reads a paper mentioning the total damage. Damaged German planes. Ruined buildings in London and the body of a woman buried in the ruins. Important buildings of London damaged, including: Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, House of Commons, newspaper publishers on Fleet Street, and St Paul's Cathedral. British soldiers inspect crashed and damaged German warplanes.
Blitz air attack on London by Germany during World War II, focusing on night attacks in October of 1940 during Battle of Britain. Goering and Adolf Hitler sit and discuss. A German aircraft takes off for a blitz night air attack on London. British soldiers observe through binoculars. British soldiers play chess and pool. A soldier looks at a map. German planes bombs on the British soil. People gathered at air raid shelter. Homes and business offices on fire. British people sleep on a platform of an underground railway station (Leicester Square tube station underground) for protection during bombing. Man emerges from Anderson Shelter (family air raid shelter) after bombing. People move through ruins of their damaged houses after the attack. British citizens eat at lunch counters and homes and talk. A couple walks towards a house. A man holds a broken mirror in his hand and talks to a woman. Views of cleanup underway in streets after attack, and numerous damaged buildings in England from Luftwaffe Blitz. British civilians traveling to work through debris in streets. British men and women workers at work in a factory.
Attack on London at Christmas eve of 1940 during Battle of Britain in World War II. British men and women work on machines continuing to manufacture armament and weapons in the war effort, despite German blitzkrieg (blitz) air attacks. British workers work on aircraft. Close view of aircraft wheel rising into place during manufacture. British choir of boys sings Chrismas carol in cathedral. A young British girl seated by a fireplace races to greet her father in uniform as he enters. People celebrate Christmas. Crowded underground tube platforms and transit trains going by. A British boy and two girl children decorate a Christmas tree. Vendors sell goods to citizens taking cover in the underground. Night blitz air attacks by Germany on London. Buildings set on fire causing one of the greatest fires in history. London Fire Brigade fighters spray water from fire hoses on the burning buildings. They pump water from the Thames river. People of London sleep and relax underground in tube system. British attack the German aircraft with ground artillery and anti-aircraft weapons.
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