World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Educational film showing the events leading up to World War Two, and their effects on the U.S.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
American flag being carried. US Marines and Army soldiers marching. Military aircraft and ship construction. Men riveting, welding, hammering. Shipbuilding at US Navy yard in Portsmouth, NH. Ship launch. US warships at sea. Allied Atlantic fleet, the first two ocean navy in US History. Sailors and ships. Air to air shots of several US aircraft flying (bombers and fighters). Military construction in United States: tanks, guns, ammunition.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Drawing for 1st peacetime military draft in the United States.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
January 6, 1941 President Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) addressing Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves."
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Caucasian male farmers listening to radio outside. Men listening to car radio. CU radio grill.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
American industrial factories and shipyards, war work. Tank construction on assembly line.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Democratic National Convention, 1940. Delegates. Pictures of FDR on signs held up by delegates. FDR at microphone.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Republican National Convention, 1940. Crowded platform under banner for Wendell Willkie. Signs for Robert Taft. Wendell Willkie speaking: "All Americans are of one mind. We want to assist the democracies in any way we can with material and supplies."
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Low angle Capitol Dome.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) speaking to Congress at separate times.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Book burning rally in Berlin.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
European refugees outside bombed-out buildings. Two sooty Chinese children. Dead Chinese civilians in street.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
London Blitz. Luftwaffe aircraft taking off, Heinkel He III bombers. Parliament buildings at dusk. British air raid sirens, search lights, anti-aircraft gun crews. German bombers, flashes in sky, silhouette St. Paul s, fires from incendiary bombs, firefighters, burning buildings in London. People sleeping in London Underground tube tunnel, moms and babies in shelter, group in shelter all looking up. British anti-aircraft artillery guns, day.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Air to air shots Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 and Heinkel He III bombers and Junkers fighters in flight. Battle of Britain. Dogfights between RAF and Luftwaffe fighters. Plane making long dive and crashing into ground. Subjective POV shot plane spinning helplessly out of control. British firefighters, burning buildings. Crowd looking at list of dead on poster in street.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch looking at map.
World War II: Prologue U.S.A.
The signing of the Axis Powers Pact of Berlin between Japan, Germany and Italy, Sept 1940.