The 35th Anniversary celebration of the first Wright flight in the United States. Seats occupied in a NCR auditorium. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds,Founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford,Aviator Orville Wright and Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering sitting on stage. Still photograph of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.
Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
London in Britain is bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Two men on a hydraulic ladder fighting fire. Smoke rises from the burning buildings following aerial blitzkrieg bombardment by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Fire blazes out from the roof of a building. Smoke in the background. Firemen with fire hoses direct the water at a door way and upper windows. Heavy smoke billows from the upper windows. Buildings in the background. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Smoke in the background. A man with a fire hose directs water at a demolished building. Rubble and debris on the streets due to the bombings. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom look at the bombed buildings with other civilians. The bomb damaged buildings. The King and the Queen talk to a British civilian wearing a helmet. Bombed and fire gutted buildings in London include a wing of Buckingham Palace, with damage to the wing shown. The firemen direct fire hose streams of water on bombed and gutted buildings.
Areas of England are bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Smoke rises from a bombed portion of Coventry following a blitzkrieg or blitz attack by the German Luftwaffe aircraft over London and other cities in England. British enlisted men and civilians walk around bombed buildings. Debris and rubble in the foreground. The bombed and gutted St Michaels Cathedral (St Michaels Coventry Cathedral 1 Hill Top, Coventry CV1 5AB, UK) in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Military men look at the devastation and effects of the bombing. A bomb demolished building in the foreground. Rubble and debris on the streets in other British cities. Civilians walk through the ruins of the bombed buildings. Scene changes to English Channel as bombs hit near an unidentified British ship. German aircraft in formation fly through flak bursts. Bomb bursts near the stern of a ship in the English Channel. The Cliffs of Dover in the background. German bombing near three British merchant ships in the English Channel. The coastline of the English Channel is seen in the background.
A Luftwaffe bomber aircraft crashes in Britain during World War II. Rubble and debris between two houses. A British man carries a bomb from the crashed Nazi aircraft. Buildings in the background. British enlisted men and civilians in the foreground. A British civilian carries a bomb on his shoulder. British civilians in the background. Rubble and debris of demolished building in the background. The British civilian carrying the bomb stops and a British enlisted man takes the bomb from his shoulder. A British officer and an air warden looks on. The enlisted man lays the bomb near other bombs with detonators removed. The British officer in the background. A British civilian looks at the propeller of the crashed Nazi bomber. The enlisted man and civilians walk through the rubble and debris of a demolished building in the background.
British enlisted men clean up the damage caused by a bombing raid in Britain during World War II. The enlisted men repair and clean up bombing raid damage. They tear down a bombed building. They shovel mud out of a hole to repair a broken gas main pipeline due to the bombing raid. A large circular concrete molding. An English man carries a wooden frame in the background. A pipeline through the rubble and debris. The enlisted men use a wheelbarrow to remove the debris and dirt.