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Secret of Britain's anti invasion defences revealed. Round patches of oil on the surface of the sea grow larger. They will enlarge to form a continuous strip, when they will be ignited. Oil is projected into the sea from shore pipe-lines.

'Carrying special invasion equipment and thoroughly briefed, Canadians are seen going up the gangway of one of the ships that took them on the first step along the road to Berlin and victory.'

Slag om Arnhem 1944/1945; operation Market Garden. Allied Airborne invasion of Holland. C-47 planes of the First Allied Airborne Army fly over flooded Holland, after helping to drop the largest airborne forces ever landed on the Continent. More than 1,000 tow planes and gliders launched to First Allied landings in Holland. Op 17 september 1944 begon Operatie Market Garden (Slag om Arnhem). Een luchtvloot ...

Abyssinian Minister's children read news of Italian invasion. Joseph Martin, the 23-year-old son of Dr. Asaj C. Martin, Ethiopian Minister in London, showing his brothers and sisters at the Abyssinian Legation in London, the scene of the Italian attack on their country. Left to right - Charles, John, Joseph, David and Leah.

Zur Abwehr jeder Invasion. Immer neue Wunder von Stahl und Beton entstehen am Strande des Atlantik und am Mittelmeer. Gewaltige Verteidigungsanlagen, in Form und Stärke alle Erfahrungen des modernen Krieges angepasst, werden mit der Front nach allen Seiten auf Tiefe anlegt und dadurch sowohl für Angriffe von vorn als auch von hinten und von den Flanken eingerichtet. Unaufhörlich wird an der Verstärkung ...

Invasion boats stream across English Channel. In orderly procession, a flotilla of landing craft manned by the U.S. Coast Guard acrosses the English Channel with Allied troops to invade the coast of Nazi-held Europe June 6, 1944. Barrage balloons are flown from the bow of each of the LCI's as a protection against possible enemy strafing.

AD B 25 Nederlandse leger in Engeland Sealing a gate, Dutch soldiers are pictured during yesterday's 'invasion' of Birkenhead. Note that the attackers carry Bren guns, and full packs. Home guard defenders contested the battle fiercely, and wiped out 50 % of the invading Dutch. But the invaders were successfull in taking the town

Het originele bijschrift luidt: 'In the Nazi's endeavor to make Holland invasion-proof, they have demolished one fifth of the Hague's buildings. Behind a concrete wall along the beach they have laid bare a 600 foot, 1,5 miles inland to form the real defense zone. Some 100,000 people had to be evacuated. View of Sweelinckstraat.' 2e Sweelinckstraat vanaf Groot Hertoginnelaan. Eerste straat rechts is ...

Balikpapan beachhead blasted by tremendous firepower of the invasion forces becomes a hive of activity as supplies are mass handled for the combined Australian Seventh Division and Royal Netherlands Indies Forces drivre for the Balikpapan township and the oilfields in Netherlands Borneo. NI 3178

Allied invasion of Palau. This is a glimpse of the U.S. Navy's mighty Third Fleet at anchor off a Pacific island. Guns of this fleet have supported many U.S. landings in the Pacific.