German bombers fly in formation with flak from British antiaircraft fire exploding below them during Battle of Britain in World War 2. Several flights of British Royal Air Force Spitfire fighters take off from airfield. A spitfire lands. Pilot poses with two thumbs up.
British Royal Air Force ground crews rearm a Spitfire aircraft during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. They feed belts into guns through access panels under wings and then place ammunition boxes into the wings. View Pilot's parachute sitting on empennage of a parked Spitfire aircraft. A partial glimpse of 66th Squadron's "LZ" code appears forward of the RAF roundel on its fuselage. Some white spots on leading edge of vertical stabilizer might be evidence of repair. But overall, the empennage does not appear damaged. Two other Squadron spitfires come in to land.
San Severo Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. Map showing location of San Severo. U.S. personnel around parked B-24 Liberator aircraft. White outdoor tent canopies in front of White buildings (far in background). View from passenger automobile driving rapidly along nearly empty road lined with trees. View shifts to a village street as seen from overlooking building. Two horse carts move along the street and several pedestrians walk on sidewalk. Park surrounded by official-looking buildings. Man and woman ride, standing, in a horse-drawn cart. A busy outdoor marketplace, where several children pose for the camera. Numerous local people on side streets. Several boys pose closeup for the camera. View from open area, of street lined with apartment houses. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse carts on the street, but no motor vehicles moving (one parked off the street). Words on door of building read '4th PHOTO. TECH. SQ,' (4th Photographic Technical Squadron). U.S. Army jeeps parked outside. Sign reads '90th P.W.R. Dispensary,' (identifying dispensary of the 90th Photographic Wing, Reconnaissance). Closeup of sign reading: "90th P.W.R. Dispensary, Sick Call 0830, American Military Personnel ---ONLY. Major Tom S. Shields, Wing Surgeon." Military ambulances parked outside the building. Another sign identifies a mess hall.
May Day Parade at Union Square in the Flat Iron district of New York City. A crowd with communist and socialist sympathies parades with signs and banners. Banners address worker rights and speak out against United States participation in World War 2. A banner reads 'Fur Floor Workers Union'. The crowd jams the streets and lines the sidewalks. Some of the signs held by people read 'Why Not Bosses Fight Their Own War' and 'Our War Is Battle For Freedom, Wages And Better Working Conditions'. Sign seen "Keep the Yanks in the Yankee Stadium." The parade turns at the 17th Street. The side of a float has anti-war message that reads 'Convoys Means Coffin'. People sit on steps of a building.
Shortly before America's direct involvement in World War 2, view of a rally and speaker for the American Union for Organization Against War in New York City. The anti-war speaker shows signs "Fight the Draft" and "No Loans to England. No Arms to anyone!" People in a crowd listen to the speaker. One man holds a sign which reads 'Selectees! Protest any Extension of Army Service - Write Your Congressman'. Another sign reads, "The Army and Navy are hotbeds of fascism."
An enterprising merchant opens the first air raid shelter in North-West Seattle, shortly before America's entry into World War 2. Aircraft in flight over Seattle. A man puts up a sign which reads 'Bomb Shelter'. The shelter has sand bags stacked outside. A sign reads 'For Rent Space In This Bomb Shelter'. People move inside the shelter. Interiors of the shelter shows people drinking. A sign in background reads 'Only Bottled Beer Sold During Raids'. (World War II period).
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