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British soldiers help farmers plow and prepare fields, using BREN carrier to pull plow, during World War II.

British farmers tilling soil in United Kingdom. British soldiers use modified universal carrier to pull plow. A small child rides with operator on the tracked universal carrier. Another small child rides with soldier on a truck. Soldiers pitch hay. Two women join in to pile hay with pitch forks.

Date: 1940
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675043469
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and two parliament members inspect a British aircraft factory in Britain.

Inspection of a British aircraft plant in Britain during World War II. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and two parliament members enter an aircraft plant. They inspect a British aircraft factory. An unidentified aircraft being assembled in the background. Factory workers at work in the plant. Queen Elizabeth looks at a partly assembled British Fairey Albacore torpedo bomber. The King and the Queen and the parliament members walk in front of the aircraft being assembled. Civilians and factory workers in the background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068887
Troops of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) depart from England via ship during the Battle of France of World War II.

The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) heading for France during Battle of France of World War II. British troops embark ship in United Kingdom with their baggage. The British soldiers wave standing on ship deck. Officers waiting to board the trooper transport ship. The ship departs from the dockyard.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064180
Damage to the Inner Temple Library and buildings nearby, in London due to German bombing, during World War II.

Blitz bomb damage to the Inner Temple Library (Crown Office Row Inner, Temple, London EC4Y 7HL, United Kingdom) in London during the Battle of Britain in World War II. Statues of Knight Templars in midst of the ruins in the Dining Hall of building. Damaged roof of the Inner temple and other buildings. Buses, cars, and trucks move on the roads of London.

Date: 1940, October
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036202
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth speak to civilians and look at bombed buildings following Nazi blitz air attack in London, England.

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.

Date: 1940
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068880
Three ships leaving harbors of England with British troops aboard, early in World War 2

British troops aboard 3 different troopships depart from harbors in England, United Kingdom, early in World War 2. Boats on British river. Workers transfer goods onto a ship with the help of cranes. British soldiers aboard the ship SS Bremen as the ship departs from the harbor. Next view is a low view of bow of SS Europa as it is pulling away from a port with troops on board. Last part of clip shows people at dockyard waving at troops aboard the TSMV Dorsetshire, loaded with British forces (ship also called the HM Troopship Dorsetshire, or the HMT Dorsetshire). The soldiers wave back as the ship pulls away from the docks.

Date: 1940
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064193