Reel 4. France calls up her reserves. French army and air force mobilised. Planes flying in formation. Mock air raids staged over Berlin. Bomb damage. Soldiers wearing gas masks spread white powder on the ground from barrels on wheels. Paris:...
Reel 4. France calls up her reserves. French army and air force mobilised. Planes flying in formation. Mock air raids staged over Berlin. Bomb damage. Soldiers wearing gas masks spread white powder on the ground from barrels on wheels. Paris: practising the blackout. Switches are pulled. Searchlights in the sky. Danzig: Nazi troops enter the city. Barbed wire fences. Battleship. Sailors. Navy. Men from the city recruited by the Nazis. Ribbentrop makes nonaggression pact with Stalin. Lord Halifax makes speech. Military manoeuvres on Polish frontier. Camouflaged troops. C/U of arm band. Sir Neville Henderson flies to Berlin.
President Roosevelt speaks of neutrality of American nation. Tanks. Aircraft. Bombs. Battleships. Cannons. etc. Evacuation of children by train and bus. Mothers wave children off. British antiaircraft guns. Survivors from the Athenia. Combat in France. British army boarding ships, marching through countryside, building roads etc. Aircraft in manoeuvres. Firing of French cannons. Canadian soldiers arrive in Britain. Sydney: the "Diggers" parade through the streets. Australian air force. Indian army arrive in France. Armies from France's own colonies join forces.
Battleships. Coastal command of Royal Air Force. Minesweeping flotillas. Ship "Eskdene" sunk by a floating mine. Wreckage of planes. Graf Spree scuttled. Norwegian coast - prison ship Altmark intercepted by Royal Navy. British prisoners released. Men smiling and laughing. Ajax and Exeter return. March of the returned servicemen. King and the First Lord inspect Admiralty. Guild Hall. Lord Mayor receives troops. Winston Churchill makes speech about the sea battle. Captain Woodhouse and Captain Bell speak. Rousing speech about fighting against the curse of the swastika on voice over.
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