The work of London's fire guards during a German blitzkrieg incendiary bomb raid over Britain during World War II. Burning shops and warehouses. The fire spreads due to the blowing wind. Firemen spray water on the buildings. A fireman stands on the fire brigade ladder and sprays water. Scenes of the burning buildings.
The work of London's fire guards during a German blitz incendiary bomb raid in Britain during World War II. Warehouses and factories on fire in Suffolk across the Thames. Firemen spray water on the buildings. Explosives which were kept in the buildings increased the intensity of the fire caused by the blitzkrieg.
Lieutenant D'Arcy Greig on a Curtiss R3C racer in Southampton, England. The lieutenant standing. Curtiss R3C racer with pontoons warms up. Men work on the plane. The pilot gets into the plane. The plane is pushed towards water. It taxis on water and takes off.
Homes on Leinster Gardens in Bayswater, London, England. View of a three feet thick facade false house erected to hide the subway tunnel. Traffic in front of the facade building. The subway tunnel and railroad tracks. A car parked in front of the building. A train on the tracks of the hidden London underground tunnel.
A circus-like stunt act staged at a height of 100 feet in air in Colwyn Bay, England. Two men climb a pole and move towards a grilled ring high in the air. A man rides a motorbike on the grilled ring. A man on a ladder attached to the motorbike. The ladder attached to the motorbike rotates as the motorbike moves on the grilled ring. Another person on a swing attached to the ladder. The ladder swing raises the person on the motorbike in the air and then raises another person on the swing. The men take various positions while performing the stunt.
Views of a London morning after the German air raid during World War II. Wrecked city and destroyed buildings are seen. Workers rake up debris and extinguish fires as citizens go to work as usual. Men and women emerging from underground tube and taking to streets to go to work amidst rubble. Man in suit going to work with briefcase observes the damage and devastation and workers clean up streets. Train passes overhead spanning a partially destroyed overpass trestle. Workers sit on the back of a motorized open air cart that helps shuttle them to work through the debris of the bombing. Views of a crowded London street. A woman goes shopping and steps directly into a formerly glass-enclosed display window at a clothing store to hand the proprietor an article of clothing that she wishes to buy or to assist him in cleaning up his wares. Brief view of royalty (King George VI) and Queen visiting ruins. A clean-up brigade wearing hard helmets digs through rubble with pick axes. Double-decker bus and cars and pedestrians passing by on street near bombed out building. Views of rubble among prominent London landmarks. Street view of citizens walking to work, and St. Paul's Cathedral dome in distance. Fire fighting crews train hoses on a fire from the bombing; view of exhausted and dirty fire fighters at work. Citizens with children gather at a civic center to load children into buses and evacuate them out of the city for their protection. A man with a megaphone addresses the crowd of parents and children to be evacuated to give them instructions. Men, women, and children are seen among the crowd. Line of double-decker buses departing from a queue, carrying children to safety, as parents look on and wave goodbye. Royal Air Force (RAF) crew loads a bomb into the underside of a British aircraft bound for Berlin. Views of three British airplanes in flight bound for bombing run over Germany. More scenes of rubble in British streets, and dirtied workers cleaning up after the bombing raids of the blitz. A man passes a rescued cat to another red cross rescue worker, amidst the rubble of a building. Worker gets cigarette lit.
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