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Local Spitfire Fund & German plane wreckage

Reel Number: 220857-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location: Croydon

TC Begins: 02:09:20

TC Ends: 02:19:13

Duration: 00:09:53

Local Spitfire Fund & German plane wreckage Aug-Sep40 Exhibit for general public of downed Messerschmidt plane in support of local Spitfire fund - soldiers climb in board. Top shot wrecked plane in compound and large sign “Crashed German Plane Here”. Children look at sign ‘Local Spitfire Fund”. CU putting money in donation box. 02:13:30 Dornier airplane being dismantled in field. Completely destroyed plane, men poke at smoking wreckage. Downed German planes in field after crash landing. Hole w/ part of crashed plane pulled out. 02:14:57 Scrapheap with Nazi plane parts - swastikas prominent in picture. Large pieces of planes added to pile. 02:18:11 British soldiers carry wounded on stretchers at railroad platform. CU wounded man. 02:18:48 Soldiers in field by burning remains of German plane wreckage. Battle of Britain; England Homefront Fundraising; War Effort;

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