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German blitz attacks on London and rescue of people from ruins of buildings during Battle of Britain in WW2

Blitzkrieg attack on London by Germany during World War II beginning in September 1940. Scenes of London city. Soldiers help civilians to move to safety underground in air raid shelters. A building is evacuated. A man talks over a telephone reporting incoming German aircraft. Officers watch through binoculars. German planes over the city. British pilots in aircraft defend the city. British people at a station platform. A train arrives. German planes drop bombs. Aerial bombs away views of bombs falling from German bombers, and views of German pilots in cockpit, and from point of view of German pilots. View of damaged buildings in London, rubble, and devastation. Men around the remains of the damaged buildings. Exterior and interior views of damaged and destroyed shops, homes, hospitals, and churches. A view of Big Ben in the distance and rubble from bombing in the foreground. British people climbing on piles of rubble and beginning to clear the damage. A man carrying an unexploded bomb or delayed action bomb on his shoulder to remove it from an area. A man drives a car. British people in a market using ration stamps for food. British people work in a factory continuing the war manufacturing effort. People inside underground rail system at Picadilly Circus station, serving as an air raid shelter. A man plays a harmonica to entertain civilians in the crowded air raid shelter. Doctors operate on a casualty. Soldiers rescue people from ruins of blitz damaged buildings. Fire fighters spray fire hoses on a building. Men take a break from clearing rubble and drink beer from glasses at the base of a ladder. A girl sits outside a damaged house and pets a cat. Civilians gather as King George VI and the Queen of England visit citizens amidst the rubble.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1940, September
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031685
A B-47 Stratojet is being refueled by a KC-97 Stratotanker at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England.

A training mission of the United States Air Force 305th Bombardment Wing on aircraft B-47 Stratojet at Brize Norton Air Force Base in Oxfordshire, England. The nose section of a B-47 Stratojet and the tail section of a KC-97 Stratotanker during an air to air refueling attempt with a telescopic boom method. The boom extends and injects into the nose section of the B-47 Stratojet. The B-47 Stratojet in flight. The B-47 Stratojet is refueled from the KC-97 Stratotanker. The tail section of the KC-97 refueling the B-47 Stratojet. The bottom portion and the rear section of the B-47 Stratojet in flight. The top of the head of a crew member in the aircraft.

Location: Oxfordshire England United Kingdom
Date: 1953, October 28
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031848
U.S. Army Air Force airmen work on B-17s before they take off from Molesworth Airfield in England during World War II.

The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) 'Hell's Angels' based at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Station Molesworth in England during World War II. A windsock flies with the wind. U.S. Army Air Force airmen work on the engine of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Several B-17s parked at the Airfield. Military jeeps around the aircraft. Two B-17s taxi along. They pass several other parked Flying Fortresses. The aircraft take off.

Location: England United Kingdom Molesworth Airfield
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058064
A United States Air Rescue Sikorsky H-5 helicopter lifts off and lands back at Albrook Air Force Station in Panama

Canal Zone in Panama. A United States Air Rescue Sikorsky H-5 helicopter with 'Rescue' written on it lifts off at Albrook Air Force Base in Panama. Helicopter hovers around and lands back at the base.

Location: Panama
Date: 1953, July
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048567
Names and artwork on 303rd Bomb Group B-17s seen at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, on their way to England, during World War Two.

World War II. B-17s of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) 303rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) 'Hell's Angels' staging at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, on their way to their base at RAF Station Molesworth, in England. Airmen work on a parked Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Names and artwork on the B-17s: Nose, body, and tail art reveal names like: 'Perk the Jerk', 'Gunnin for Marijane' under the dorsal turret, 'Duke of Paducah', 'Klee's Lounge', 'Kiler Kilgore', 'Hell Cat', 'The 8 Ball', 'The Duchess', 'One 'o' Clock Jump', 'The Devil Himself' under the aircraft nose, 'Bad Check', 'Delta Rebel No. 2', 'Knock-Out Dropper', 'Sky Club' and 'Continental' on propellers, 'Wild Bill' on a nose, 'Pepper Box' under a dorsal turret, 'Wee Willie Woo', 'Hornet's Nest', 'Lady Fairweather', 'Margaret - M' under a dorsal turret, 'Canuck' on a nose, 'Squirt' and 'Maggie' on propellers, 'Mimi' on a nose. A B-17 called 'The Green Hornet'. Two airmen stand under the aircraft. 'Yahoodi' with 'Si the Gonuf' made on an aircraft. Note: From Brian O’Neill’s “303rd Bombardment Group” here is the fate of the name ships in this film. “Hell Cat” 41-24580, pilot: T.O. O’Connor, fate: MIA 23 Jan 43 “The 8 Ball” 41-24581, pilot: W.R. Calhoun, fate: C/L UK 20 Dec 43 “The Duchess” 41-24561, pilot: H.L. Stouse, fate: ret USA, 7 Jul 44 “One O’Clock Jump” 41-24582, pilot: W.N. Frost, fate: MIA 12 Dec 42 “The Devil Himself” 41-24612, pilot: R.S. Hayes, fate: ret USA 20 Dec 44 “Bad Check” 41-24587, pilot: B.B. Southworth Jr., fate: MIA 11 Jan 44 “Knockout Dropper” 41-24605, pilot: J. Rolle, fate: ret USA 27 Mar 44 “Lady Fairweather” 41-24568, pilot: A.R. Redding, fate: MIA 23 Nov 42 “The Green Hornet” 41-24603, pilot: E.J. Sanderson, fate: MIA 23 Nov 42 “Yehudi” 41-24608, pilot: F.A. Saunders, fate MIA 3 Jan 43 (Also seen is a 91at Bomb Group B-17:“Delta Rebel No. 2” 42-5077, pilot: Lt Birdsong, fate: MIA 12 Aug 43. It is seen because the 91st BG was passing through Dow Field at the same time, during deployment to England.)

Location: Bangor Maine USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058060
British factory workers visit RAF Station Feltwell to see the Vickers Wellington Bombers they built, in action

British factory workers visit Royal Air Force Station, Feltwell, in Norfolk, East Anglia, England, during World War II, where RAF Squadrons fly the Victor Wellington I Bombers they helped build. The factory workers walk up to a British Vickers Wellington medium bomber aircraft and meet flight personnel in front of the aircraft. The pilot shakes hand with the factory workers. Two crew members in the foreground. The nose of the Wellington Bomber in the background. A British enlisted man removes tarpaulin cover from stacked bombs. Steel scaffolds in the background. The pilot and crew members enter the Wellington bomber through the nose hatch. The factory workers watch as the bomber takes off on a mission to bomb Germany.

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1940
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068888
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