England and France at the beginning of World War II (1939)

Women from the French Women's Medical Corps stand in formation on a square in Paris, with ambulances sent from England lined up behind them.

A woman in a medical corps uniform stands in formation.

The face of one of the women.

British Colonel Webb among officials at the ceremony of handing over the vehicles.

Female servicemen stand at attention.

The faces of French and British soldiers invited to the ceremony.

A British representative congratulates a female commander of medical units on receiving new equipment.

Ambulances drive through the streets of the city, soldiers hold their rifles at attention.

A vehicle passes an arch.

Naval miners approach a sea mine washed up on the coast of France.

The miners inspect the mine.

A miner rakes sand out from under the mine.

The miners move the mine.

Removing the detonator.

The miners unscrew the strikers.

A wheeled and tracked vehicle drives up to transport the mine to a safe place.

Miners attach a mine to a tractor with a rope.

The tractor tows the mine along the seashore.

A French artillery battery on a wheeled and tracked traction makes a march.

British officers stand on a wooden walkway and look down.

The flag of one of the Scottish regiments of the British Army flutters.

Soldiers of the Scottish regiment take their weapons to the guard position.

Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI of Great Britain, accompanied by a colonel, inspects the regiment's formation.

The Queen stops in front of one of the soldiers.

The soldiers stand in formation.

The Queen walks accompanied by officers.

The regimental band plays.

The Scottish regiments march past in a ceremonial march past members of the royal family.

Faces of the marching soldiers.

The Queen looks at the units passing by.

An officer walks next to the formation.

The Scottish regiments march in a ceremonial march.

Permanent firing points (pillboxes) on the Maginot Line.

A French observer watches the enemy through binoculars.

German soldiers lie in a chain.

German generals study a map of the upcoming military operations.

Warships on the march.

Manufacture and sorting of ammunition at a military factory.

Construction of a warship.

The production process in a workshop at an aircraft factory.

Preparing new aircraft in a factory hangar for dispatch to the active army.

Map of the routes of German landings to the coast of Norway.

German warships on the march.

German naval ensign on the stern.

Exchange of fire between British and German ships.

British naval aviation planes take off.

A torpedo bomber drops a torpedo.

Explosion on board a German ship.

British ship firing.

Burning ships.

British ships firing.

Explosion of a German ship.

Dropping bombs on German ships.

British naval artillery firing.

A ship shrouded in smoke.

Fire on board.

British ships firing, view of burning German ships (from above).

Sinking ships.

The crew of a British bomber descends from the wing to the ground after returning from a combat mission.

The crew near their plane.

Faces of the crew members.

The colonel congratulates the crew commander on completing the mission.

German bombers are flying.

French coastal artillery is firing.

German generals are showing Hitler A. a map of military operations.

German troops are entering a city.

German troops are crossing the border of the Sudetenland in 1938. A color platoon is marching.

German soldiers are tearing the coat of arms of Poland from the border barrier.

Soldiers are opening the barrier on the Polish-German border.

Cavalry is galloping through the forest.

German troops are moving through a mountain valley.

A French general and a British colonel are passing by.

French and English warships are on the march.

Airplanes are flying by against the backdrop of the British flag.