United States LVT-N-2 Loon 777 and 785 missiles prepared and launched in United States. Hangar door opens aboard a vessel. Rails between hangar and launching ramp lay. Men remove missile wings and Loon 785 taken out of the hangar. Men install wing spars and make other preparations before launching the missile. Air spark, control circuit and rocket squib tested. Loon ready to be launched aboard United States Navy submarine Cusk. Missile takes off. While in flight a part of missile detaches and falls into the ocean. Cusk crash dives in water after the launching of the Loon missile.
The British Battleship, HMS Prince of Wales underway at sea, headed to the Atlantic Conference in Newfoundland. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands on deck with U.S. Presidential advisor, Harry Hopkins, along with British Army Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, and British Air Force Chief,
Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied weapons and equipment piled up in England to be transported to the battle front in Europe. Freight cars and flat railroad cars carry equipment to the war front. Tanks, military trucks and artillery lined up. Pile of shell and other military equipment stacked up in Britain. Men of Home Guard and women of Auxiliary Territorial Services guard the equipment against German air attacks. Allies engaged in a Naval battle. Minesweepers clear mines, seaplanes in flight and ships underway at sea.
Wreckage and rubble after the Japanese air raid on Canton (Guangzhou), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Chinese women soldiers move up a pile of rubble and march to the war front. They climb up a hill and fire at Japanese positions. Girls assembled as an officer instructs them.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) seen in a trench in a snowy field in France. One of them has a Lewis, Light machine gun at his position. They don their gas masks. Gas drifts over their trench. They take up their firing positions, and one is seen to fire his weapon.Then the scene is obscured by gas. As the gas fumes begin to clear, one soldier is seen taking samples of the air with vacuum bulb and phosgene detector. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Visitors to an outdoor display, to look at a crashed German Me 109 fighter plane, during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. The plane is under a camouflage net canopy. A sign in front of the plane reads 'made in Germany and finished in England'. Royal Air Force Sergeants and civilians look at it. Sergeants turn the propeller blades, which are severely bent, and point at bullet holes in the aircraft. A sign on the fence surrounding the display reads: "In Aid of the local Spitfire Fund." An RAF pilot climbs into the cockpit of the Me 109, as another helps close its canopy. Later, the RAF pilots examine the plane's wing flaps and an open wing hatch.
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