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HNL 1075: Know Your Ally - Britain

American gridiron football game, football practice, tanks & US soldiers to camera. Flags of allies, Chinese soldier, British soldiers, American soldier gives V sign . Explosions. (1939 1945) WWII. World War II. World War 2.
Access No. 40343 | 1 min 46 secs | 1940s | United States, United Kingdom | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Chinese soldiers marching, British marching, map comparing size of Britain to Idaho, crowded London streets, men walking - some in uniform, stations, ext typical American suburban house, ext British house in leafy neighbourhood, British way of life - buses, people on the street , lots of men, English police officer holding up hand to stop traffic, newspaper articles in the US concerning strikes in Britain, soccer match, (1939 1945) WWII
Access No. 40344 | 1 min 56 secs | 1940s | London, United Kingdom, United States of America | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Tower bridge in silhouette, the Thames, ship at sea, man and boy look at model boat, Sydney Harbour bridge, New York skyline, cu US soldiers, train in US city, horse racing, father & son digging up garden in UK, soccer at Wembley, huge crowd, Adolf Hitler walks into indoor Nazi rally with Rudolf Hess (1939 1945) WWII. World War 2, World War II
Access No. 40345 | 1 min 20 secs | 1940s | Sydney, United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
London, newspaper seller with billboard re renewed violence in Germany US newspapers re German expansionism, people wait on London Street, war memorial, war cemetery, re-enactment of men listening to radio, Adolf Hitler & Neville Chamberlain sign pact in Munich, Benito Mussolini, Chamberlain waves paper as he arrives back in Britain, CU military training act billboard, new recruits marching, being kitted out with uniforms & gas masks, marching along street, Hitler laughing Britain preparing for war, enlisting (1939 1945) WWII
Access No. 40346 | 1 min 52 secs | 1930s | London, United Kingdom, Munich, Germany | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Artillery fired, Lion looks at camera, Britain declares war newspaper headline over face of lion, air to air planes , leaflets dropped from plane, ws leaflets over park, tank through grass, air to air German paratroopers jumping from Junkers, ms paratroopers out of door, German tanks along road crowded with soldiers, re-enactment of men listening to radio (allied), map of German expansion, Jubilant Adolf Hitler with officers, lion (1939 1945) WWII. World War II, World War
Access No. 40347 | 1 min 27 secs | 1930s | Europe | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
White Cliffs of Dover, people listening to radio, houses burn at night in London during the blitz, firefighters with hoses,anti aircraft guns firing at night (tracer fire), search lights, firemen,day time aftermath of bombing, destroyed buildings, wounded, people laughing, British flag (1939 1945) WWII
Access No. 40348 | 1 min 3 secs | 1940s | Dover, London, United Kingdom | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |