ATC (Air Training Corps) boys in England during World War II. Cadets get out of uniforms and change into football gear. Players on the field playing football (soccer). Onlookers seated on bench, watch the game. People walk by the field. A dog sitting next to the bench.
A film titled 'You in Great Britain' on the history of Great Britain. A U.S. Airman enters the British Museum and views the Magna Carta. Magna Carta Island. Paintings of signing of Magna carta and of British monarchs, including Queen Victoria. Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, and the Thames River. U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Cartoons of Soviet System vs. Democracy. British soldiers in combat. Animated map showing U.S. Air Bases in Britain. U.S. Airmen in a theater watching the movie. Faces of various soldiers including African American and white soldiers as they watch the film in the theater.
U.S. Air Force airmen sightseeing in Trafalgar Square area of London. Airmen stand next to Duke of Wellington equestrian statue at Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and look up at Bank of England building. Scene changes to the White Cliffs of Dover. British farms. Paintings of historic British maritime ships and activity. Animated map of British seaborne trade routes. A British port with meat and coffee imports, and coal and manufactured goods being exported. A ship being loaded with British goods.
British troops on the battlefields and in the trenches of World War I. The Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret) in formal appearance on a balcony. Scenes of World War II. London ablaze in the Blitz air attack by Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Firefighters direct water hoses on burning buildings. Funerals for dead at Coventry who were killed in the blitz. Destroyed homes in London and destroyed industry throughout Britain from blitzkrieg. A British bus upended and leaning against a building destroyed by the blitz. Many graves in British Military Cemetery. British contributions to science and technology. An early revolving radar antenna. Early jet propulsion work yielding jet powered British V-Bomber aircraft in flight. A doctor administers penicillin shot to a child patient in a doctor's office. An atomic bomb test with mushroom cloud rising.
"Get your new ration books and identity cards here" seen written on a sign. British civilians line up to obtain new post-war ration books, after the end of World War 2. Women shopping for rationed food. British ships idle in ports as exports wane. View of New York harbor with tugs and barges and Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in background. Woman holding poster advertising First International Auto Show (held from February 5-10, 1949, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Twenty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City), including European cars to be shown in New York City. British cars in their first car show. One of the cars shown is the 1948 Ghost Minx with two women seated inside it. A 1948 Jaguar convertible is also shown. Communist parades in Europe and Asia. Start of Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild after the war. Newspaper shows President Truman signing Foreign Aid Bill (led to Marshall Plan).
Lifestyle of British people in early 1950s. Group of British coal miners. Several British businessmen. British residential neighborhoods post World War 2 both in cities and in outlying neighborhoods. British working men in hats and coats walking to or from work. Well-to-do neighborhood. Factory workers producing heavy equipment. British Automobile manufacturing factory with workers assembling cars. A Bentley automobile being loaded on a ship. Two U.S. Airmen sightseeing in London view traffic on streets with cars and lorries, double-decker buses, and pedestrians. View of diverse British workers, both men and women, walking on a bridge to or from work as double decker buses and other vehicles pass by on the road.
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