Churchill’s Island - Reel 1

Churchill’s Island - Reel 1 On screen credit re Academy Award winner for 1942 German troops in France manning gun emplacements looking out over straits of Dover - White cliffs. Barrage balloons - British defences, spotters on coast and on rooftops - early radar ? post. Civilian workers into armament factory - interiors, men and women - bombs - sign encouraging hard work for the war effort. 12:30:24 Hitler making speech over shots German railroad RR guns. Coastal defences - Big guns on French coast being loaded and fired - multiple shots. British man in uniform to camera “I can usually hear Gerry leaving the other side ...”. Bombed out church and residential housing. Policeman on point / traffic duty. 12:31:51 Battle of Britain - Sept. 1940 - German aircraft taking off and in flight formation. England - air-raid warning - Anti-aircraft gun - police putting on steel hats - shopkeeper closes shop - woman ambulance driver runs to ambulance. Fire engine out of station. ARP wardens in gas masks. People into shelters. Map / operations control room. German planes over coastline. Barrage balloon in flames. Ack-Ack guns fired. German planes dropping bombs. Shots pilots smiling. Explosion and building on fire. RAF Spitfires engage Germans in dogfight. Plane crashes into sea. Various shots wrecked German planes. Scenes of Blitz - firefighting - British sailor to camera “ I’ve pulled more Gerrys out the drink than I ever knew existed ... “ Plane partly submerged in sea. 12:36:48 Ships from Canada and USA carrying bombers for Britain. German officers with Hitler at planning meeting. Launching of German submarines