New recruits joining up at a makeshift army recruiting office in...
Australian Artillery in the...
River bursts it's banks flooding the villages of Athleney and Stan Moor,...
Unexploded German bomb is detonated in Eastbourne.
Extra flood defences are built to protect East Anglian sea front...
A hot air balloon race takes place at Expo Sussex '68. Ardingly, Sussex.
Civilians fill sandbags to help build defences.
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Good footage of flooded areas and destruction caused by River Rhine bursting its...
ANZAC troops use camels to build sandbag emplacement.
French soldiers protect buildings and monuments with boards and sandbags....
French workers prepare to sandbag monuments in Paris. France.
Good shots of English / British soldiers disembarking from ship and...
South African troops building defence positions in North Africa.
Public information film showing how to...
Soviet sailors leave to evacuate Odesa, and people of the city...
George the chimpanzee helps out stacking sandbags at London Zoo.
Dr Rewcastle becomes the first female doctor to join the Naval Reserve.
New Year truce in Vietnam lasts for four days.
Bruno Mussolini, son of Il Duce, has come to Spain to fly for...
Royal Engineers dispose of unexploded bomb in...
Frozen countryside in Holland - severely cold winter.
Swollen Hillsborough river, motorboat wending its way between flooded...
U.S. Marines at points around the base at Guantanamo...
Live grenade removed surgically from man's back in...
UN troops from Canada arrive in Canada
Footage of French museums being protected from...
Soldiers prepare sandbag area during war bond drive...
Sand is excavated and loaded...
Australian troops and civilians prepare to defend their country...
German bombers attack British ships off Dover. Hurricanes go up to see them...
Border counties of Canada and America suffer serious flooding.
Japanese troops come ashore / Pressure around Shanghai - film of...
Bruno Mussolini, son...
Sandbag defences and barbed wire are quickly put...
People in Paris before the invasion prepare...
Interesting shots of a deserted Jerusalem,...
Nylon sandbags make up temporary dyke off the Island of...
Cut story of French preparations for the war.
Easter celebrations marred by snow and floods...
The War Cabinet arrives at No. 10. Sandbag defences are...
People in Hawaii get ready for more attacks just...
Material showing liberation of Paris, France.
Material from Dutch newsreel showing floods throughout Holland.
Cuts from newsreel 47/81 - Churchill receives freedom...
Aftermath of coal mine disaster in Nottinghamshire, Philip Noel-Baker...
Various shots (including...
C 46 plane passes 'dead engine' test and Sikorsky helicopter...
Detonation of explosives...
Tank at Dudley during war bond drive (?), plus good shot of front of local cinema.
President Truman views flooded Midwest from his private plane.