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Wife of heroic pilot with her baby. She displays his burned shoe and flight suit. He won Victoria Cross and is recuperating.

Wife of British RAF (Royal Air Force) pilot who was awarded the Victoria Cross for shooting down an enemy aircraft while his own aircraft was burning. She lifts her baby from a pram in front of her house. She displays her husband's burned shoe and flight gear. She then reads formal letters about award of the Victoria Cross. Her husband pilot is seen with two other RAF fliers relaxing amongst other service personnel at a medical recuperation facility. They sit at a small table and smoke cigarettes. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046738
A woman goes for cancer diagnosis to a clinic and then gets back home in the United States.

An awareness film about cancer by U.S. Public Health Service, United States. Dramatization shows a woman's experience with cancer. A woman named Mrs. Brown sits at the clinic of her family doctor and asks him if she is suffering from cancer? And says that she is now ready for examination after attending the talk in the club. The doctor says that it can be confirmed only after diagnosis. Mrs. Brown lying in an operation theater. Nurse wears her cap. Surgeon gets ready for surgery. Technician in laboratory looks through a microscope. Technician work on frozen tissues, he stains, washes and mounts it on slide. Surgeons work in an operation room. Mrs Brown and her husband climb down the stairs, she hugs her kids. They all come home. Mrs Brown enlist herself to Women's Field Army. Director of American Society for the Control of Cancer Clarence C. Little talks about resolution against cancer.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047047
British coastal defenses battle incoming German aircraft during Battle of Britain in World War 2

On sighting of incoming German aircaft, British soldiers scramble to trench battle positions with anti aircraft guns (ack ack guns) at British aerodromes. British pilots race to waiting Hawker Hurricanes and take off to fight the German Luftwaffe aircraft. Ground views of battle unfolding in the air. Smoke in sky from battle. Captured German air crew members are escorted by armed British guards. One is smiling. British Hurricane back at airbase for refueling and more ammunition. Smoke in distance across English Channel shows results of British offensive action. Official seen collecting pieces of a struck enemy aircraft. Narrator cautions viewers to not touch such pieces if they find them as "your curiousity may upset the work of examining experts." British Hurricanes and spitfires return to airbase. British pilots in discussion with a pilot from Poland. As pilots are shown, narrator says, "never in the history of human conflict, have the many owed so much to the few."

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063097
Jews walking on the streets of Dombrowa, Poland.

Jews in German-occupied Dombrowa, Poland, during World War 2. Jews on streets of the city of Dombrowa. Many Jewish people of all ages wearing the star of David with text on it "Jude" identifying them as Jewish. People walking on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Crowd of people gather outside a building. Men watching from the window of the building. Many people wearing star of David.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063122
Jews lined up outside a building on the streets of Dombrowa, Poland, during World War 2.

Jews in German-occupied Dombrowa, Poland during World War II. Jews on the streets of the German-occupied city of Dombrowa. Buildings along the sides of the street. People lined up outside a building. A few people wearing Jewish star of David patch on their clothing that identifies them as Jewish.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063123
Jews wearing stars of David coming outside a building in Dombrowa,Poland.

Jews in Dombrowa, Poland. Jews on the streets of the city Dombrowa. Buildings along the sides of the street. A man wearing star of David standing outside a building. Another man walking near the building. People wearing stars of David coming out of the building. Children standing outside the building. Other buildings in the far background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063124