Barrage balloons are tested at Camp Davis Barrage Balloon School.
Balloon barrages to defend British cities are made in a large hangar...
Barrage balloons are used to protect Dover Harbour and the ships in it.
Scotland's famous Forth Bridge is seen with barrage balloons floating above it.
Material showing convoy of merchant ships.
Material showing depth charging, naval fleet, and aircraft.
Barrage balloons are inflated and tested near the Tower of London.
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Parachute drops from barrage balloon in Oxfordshire.
Sturdy WAAFs are trained in barrage balloon duty.
Aerial views over wartime London showing barrage balloons.
Opening of new bridge / dam in Pakistan.
A camera attached to a small barrage balloon takes aerial photographs above a...
Views of the Lloyd Barrage in India.
Men and women are interrogated on suspicion of spying, and models visit the...
Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood pays a visit to Kidbrooke to...
Belinda the barrage balloon and her friends are attached to ships...
Shots of a barrage balloon being inflated.
American troops raise barrage balloons when siren is...
Damaged barrage balloon twists over London.
A barrage balloon drops supplies on the land.
Footage of the Polish army parading through the streets of Warsaw in Poland.
HMS Rodney shells German occupied Channel Island of Alderney.
Barrage balloons are tested at Akron, Ohio. America.
A line of barrage balloons is sent up into the air from the old...
A Royal Navy Minesweeper runs aground in St. Ives.
This item shows sketches of the first hot air balloon, and...
Footage of National Service show in Hyde Par, London.
German soldiers demonstrate their equipment in aid of charity.
A van collects laundry in order to save petrol during wartime.
Wreckage of crashed German planes after air raid on Southeast England.
WAAFs are trained in the use of barrage balloons.
Canadian troops prepare to go ashore in invasion.
Various shots of ships and landing craft on their way to the Normandy beaches.
Material showing fleet at sea and German prisoners on boat.
Material showing American convoy at sea and jeeps being...
American troops landing in South of France with little opposition from...
Footage of planes doing 'aerobatics' in rehearsals for...
Good footage of the French defences on the Western Front in France.
Men of an RAF barrage balloon unit spend their free time planting vegetables.
Fighter pilots of the RAF fight off German aircraft attacking a...
RAF pilots take off to engage German planes attacking British a...
This story shows an American battleship in action -...
Diagrams illustrate how items stay buoyant.
Various aerial shots of...
Nazi bombers seen during a raid on...
Cartoonist Joe Noble has fun suggesting different shapes and uses for barrage balloons.
Dog fights over the English Channel and Scrapheap of smashed German...
Footage of landing craft and warships at sea.
American army bring ashore equipment for the Invasion of France.
Portsmouth bombed in German air raid. 1941?