The 1966 Miss World pageant, held at the Lyceum Theatre Ballroom (Lyceum Theatre, 21 Wellington St, London WC2E 7RQ, United Kingdom) in London, United Kingdom. Women beauty pageant contestants seen on the stage include contestants from Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Syria, Venezuela, USA, France, Yugoslavia, and India. Miss India, Reita Faria, sits on the throne while Miss World 1965, Lesley Langley of United Kingdom, crowns her as Miss World 1966. Italian artist and director Beni Montresor is seen as one of the judges. Reita Faria walks the stage carrying scepter and wearing crown.
Trucks arrive at Toddington Manor (Toddington, Cheltenham GL54 5DN, United Kingdom) in Gloucestershire, England. British children playing jump rope as vehicles transport tanks on the road. Rows of aircraft are transported by vehicles into town. The preparations for the D-Day invasion of France by Allied Forces, during World War II. A crane moves boxes. Boxes move in conveyer belts. Sacks, boxes, and crates stored at a distribution point. A man drives a forklift transporting boxes inside a warehouse. Military supplies arriving in Britain from the United States. Piles of tires, barbed wires, concrete tubes stored in docks and warehouses. Cranes move oil barrels into a pile. Military locomotives and freight cars bound for continental Europe at a railway yard. Soldiers open a crate containing a United States Army truck. A crane lowers a tank. A man inspects a row of military trucks. Rows of M3 half-track armored personnel carriers and M4 Tractors in England. A man helps a tank back up. Rows of tanks, artillery, and guns from the United States. Men stocking shells inside an underground storage. Piles of shells outdoors. A truck transports shell. Rows of fighters at an airfield. A man moves a search light at night. Anti-aircraft guns fire at German night bombers attempting to attack bases in the United Kingdom. Barrage balloons fly above warships. A sailor drops an anti-ship mine in the sea. Minesweepers seek and destroy such mines from the sea. Consolidated PBY-5A attacks a German ship.
An Allied propaganda film to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as to counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the alliance shows British soldiers in Great Britain during World War 2. 1938: in the United States New York Yankees win the pennant in baseball; scene of Yankees team members shaking hands. View of aviator Douglas Corrigan nicknamed Wrong Way Corrigan after his accidental flight from New York to Ireland instead of California as planned. View of trains on the 6th Avenue Elevated (or Sixth Avenue El) before that service was halted in Manhattan New York City. British citizens go about their daily life. Derby horse race in a stadium. A British boy and his father shovel dirt for a backyard garden. Players play a football (soccer) game at Wembley Stadium in England as spectators cheer the 1938 FA Cup Final with Preston North End taking the Cup versus Huddersfield Town as George Mutch scores the winning goal. Scenes in Germany: People cheer for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Newspaper headlines about Czech occupation. Graves in a cemetery. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini sign the Munich Agreement. Despite a peace agreement Hitler invades Czechoslovakia. People read 'Military Training Act, 1939'. British soldiers march along a road. View of Adolf Hitler smiling and laughing. Artillery is fired. A poster reads 'Britain Declares War on Germany'. Airplanes in flight and drop leaflets over Germany. German airplanes in flight. Parachutists jump from the airplanes. Hitler talks to officers and considers the war to be over. Radio news broadcast of the British declaration of war on Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Many different British citizens and families shown in living rooms and work places gathered around radios to hear the so called "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of Winston Churchill on June 4, 1940. Clip includes scenes from 1938 through 1940; from a film produced in 1943.
SAC unit arrives for a briefing session at Brize-Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet SAC(Strategic Air Command ) unit members arrive in a room for a briefing session. An officer with long mustaches holds papers in his hands. A paper kept on a desk. Members seated on chairs. Men stand at the base. A medical van arrives and they get in the van. Vehicles move in the background. Buildings in the background. A sign reads 'Brize Norton, R.A.F. Station 3920th Air Base Group, Welcomes You'. SAC members take notes. Colonel Kunkle uses a pointer to point out an aerial route for the unit. He passes the stick to next officer Major Hess. He attaches maps onto another map, and describes the mission to the bomb wing. The crew members take notes.
A control tower unit at Brize Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. A U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it takes off. The control tower unit. Tower operators in the control room. They are seated on chairs. Airmen operate the controls. A man speaks over a radio. Men speak into ground to air radio microphones. A close up of a man talking over the radio.
United States 8th Air Force Officers parade on a field on 'Victory in Europe Day' (VE Day) in United Kingdom after the end of World War II. A military band plays before the formation of men. Reviewing officers in foreground. The reviewing party salutes as the marching troops pass by. An officer carries a flag.
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