Know Your Ally Britain

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R1:00:01:03:04

Scenes of a football team scoring a touchdown to win a football game. Football players wearing leather football helmets without face masks or guards. Official looks at a stopwatch and fires starter pistol. Cheering sports fans in a football stadium. Football fans reacts to touchdown with wild cheers. CU of cheering football fans. Football players in training pushing heavy sled in resistance training. Head-on shot football team rushing toward camera on football field, fades to Army Infantry soldiers running across a battlefield with explosions. CU U.S. Soldier, American flag on sleeve, gives V for Victory sign.

R1:00:02:40:18

Various scenes of people and vehicles in a major city in Britain England in the 1930's. Typical American house, couple sitting on front porch of home. Typical English home, house with hedge in front of the English British home. London street scenes in the 1930's, people, traffic, double-deck buses, congestion. Silhouette image of London Tower Bridge late evening. Short clip Sydney Harbor Bridge. Short Clip of New York City skyline with ship in FG.

R1:00:05:23:10

Hitler enters The Reichstag to shouts of Heil. Signs of war, newspaper headline reads Hitler Demands Sudetenland Annexation From Czechs!. Newspaper headline reads Czech Borders Threatened!. Newspaper headline reads Czechs Defy Nazis!. Newspaper headline reads Chamberlain Flies To Munich. Four men with somber expressions listen intently to a radio. Britain, France, Italy, and Germany sign the Munich Pact. Prime Minister Chamberlain waves a copy of Munich Pact upon his return from Germany. Hitler breaks the Munich Pact with invasion of Czechoslovakia. Britain approve Conscription Act Military Training Act 1939. British military recruit being fitted with gas mask.

R1:00:07:16:12

CU, Brief clip of a smiling, jovial Adolf Hitler. Britain declares war on Germany September 3, 1939 following the German invasion of Poland. RAF bombers drop propaganda leaflets over Hamburg, Bremen and Ruhr. German tanks and infantry invade neutral countries of Luxemburg, Holland, and Belgium. Four men listen intently to the news on a radio. German paratroopers jump from Luftwaffe Ju 52 transport aircraft. The British people listen to radio as Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives his We Shall Fight On The Beaches, We Shall Never Surrender speech. Burning buildings in London England after German Luftwaffe bombing attacks. British firemen fighting fires. Panning view of destroyed buildings and rubble in London, removing the dead and wounded from the rubble.

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R2:00:00:00:12

Mourners following an English British horse-drawn Hearst with damaged building in BG.

British men and women at work in war factories. Names of the defeats Britain endured in 1940 and 1941, Dunkirk, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Burma. Britain goes on the offensive as bombers take to the air. RAF Spitfires strafing enemy ships. RAF planes bombing the major cities of Germany.

R2:00:02:28:16

British troops fight in North Africa. British Infantry, artillery and tank battles in North Africa as the British take El Alamein, Matruh, Sidi Barrani, Tripoli, Mareth, taking thousands of Italian and German soldiers prisoners POWs. Rommel and his Afrika Korps defeated in North Africa. Church bells in Britain ring out as a sign of victory in North Africa. Silhouette of two British Air Raid Wardens looking out over the English Channel late evening.

R2:00:05:17:01

CU image of Adolf Hitler speaking. Several scenes of the German Ministry of propaganda at work trying to divide the Allies. Scenes of the difference between British traffic rules, Sign Reads You Are In Britain Drive Left. Compares American baseball to British Cricket, American coffee to English coffee. American soldiers listening to a radio in Britain. Scenes that depict legislative processes in the U.S. and Britain as wells as freedom of the press, religion and speech.

Statue of George Washington in the heart of London England and of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square.

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R3:00:00:05:15

British miners, farmers, steel mill workers, and children playing. Military Honor Guard at Windsor Castle. Explanation of the role of the crown with several views of the British Royal Family. The British people at a Polling Station voting for their representative to the House of Commons.

R3:00:04:27:18

Nazi German radio announcer broadcasting propaganda. Newspaper headline reads Hitler Urges Truce!. Robert Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, denounces negotiations with Hitler.

Newspaper headline reads Hess, Hitler Aide, Flies To Britain!. Churchill predicting German defeat to US Congress.

Scenes in India, including views of Gandhi, Nehru, and Smuts. Newspaper headline reads Britain Offers India Dominion Status After War.

R3:00:09:15:16

On March 11, 1942 Newspaper headline reads Britain Offers India Dominion Status After War, but during this war Allied Troops are needed in India to keep the Nazis and Japanese from uniting. Allied forces needed bases for bombers to attack the Japanese in Burma. Brief scenes of U.S. Troops landing in North Africa.

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R4:00:03:21

Nazi German radio announcer broadcasting propaganda. Describes the extent of British participation in the war. British fighter planes in flight, British bombers in North Africa. British Navy warships at sea in WWII. British Merchant cargo ships at sea. Torpedoes striking a British cargo Merchant ship. British sailers abandon sinking freighter after ship is torpedoed.

R4:00:02:39:15

British Spitfire with RAF pilot in FG. CU images of Hermann Goring. CU image of Arthur Whitten Brown, who was the navigator of the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connrmara, Ireland in 1919. Brief scene of reception given Captain John W. Alcock, pilot, and Arthur Whitten Brown, navigator, in Ireland after first non-stop transatlantic flight.

R4:00:03:37:19

Shows the fact all British men and women had to fight in WWII. British women in uniform marching in review. CU of woman in air force uniform typing, British women as farmers in the Land Army. CU of British woman ferry pilot. British women in a fire brigade. British women manning an anti-aircraft gun. British women working in defense plant factory.

R4:00:05:10:13

Steel mills of Sheffield, shipyards of the River Clyde, and industrial English British cities of Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds that produces weapons of war. Animated map shows American ships carrying weapons of war to Britain under the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941.

Britain is mobilized for war - total war. Documents shortages in food and clothing and high tax rates. Children are well fed, scenes of English children. Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks to the US Congress about the coming peace.