Eighty years ago today, crowds gathered in cities around the world to celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe. From London to New York, and Lahore to Sydney, people marked the victory with street parties, parades, dancing and singing. The surrender did not come as a surprise: in Britain, it had been anticipated for some time and people were on standby to start celebrating the end of the war in Europe. The news was broadcast late in the day on 7 May, the BBC interrupting its scheduled
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Eighty years ago today, crowds gathered in cities around the world to celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe. From London to New York, and Lahore to Sydney, people marked the victory with street parties, parades, dancing and singing. The surrender did not come as a surprise: in Britain, it had been anticipated for some time and people were on standby to start celebrating the end of the war in Europe. The news was broadcast late in the day on 7 May, the BBC interrupting its scheduled
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'Nimrod the hunter'. This RAF instructional film from 1981 looks at the Nimrod anti-submarine aircraft during an attack on a hostile submarine and the role of the navigator in the attack. Film: IWM BFH 18 | Imperial War Museum London
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'Nimrod the hunter'. This RAF instructional film from 1981 looks at the Nimrod anti-submarine aircraft during an attack on a hostile submarine and the role of the navigator in the attack. Film: IWM BFH 18 | Imperial War Museum London
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Royal Marines filmed during a landing exercise for a 1963 recruitment film. Find the film in full here: https://bit.ly/3FeKVrH Film: IWM ADM 2610 | Imperial War Museum London
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Royal Marines filmed during a landing exercise for a 1963 recruitment film. Find the film in full here: https://bit.ly/3FeKVrH Film: IWM ADM 2610 | Imperial War Museum London
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RAF pilots scramble to their aircraft and take off during a simulated attack. The clip comes from ‘Strike Squadron’, a 1979 film produced by the British Central Office of Information on the training and role of Jaguar fighters on the NATO frontline. Find the film in full on our website: https://bit.ly/3PX4mas Film: IWM COI 1117 | Imperial War Museum London
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RAF pilots scramble to their aircraft and take off during a simulated attack. The clip comes from ‘Strike Squadron’, a 1979 film produced by the British Central Office of Information on the training and role of Jaguar fighters on the NATO frontline. Find the film in full on our website: https://bit.ly/3PX4mas Film: IWM COI 1117 | Imperial War Museum London
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Different types of camouflage are demonstrated in this British Army instructional film from 1965. Find the full film, 'Individual Fieldcraft', on our website here: https://bit.ly/46SvJdD Film: IWM (DRA 1201) | Imperial War Museum London
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Different types of camouflage are demonstrated in this British Army instructional film from 1965. Find the full film, 'Individual Fieldcraft', on our website here: https://bit.ly/46SvJdD Film: IWM (DRA 1201) | Imperial War Museum London
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Royal Marine and Norwegian commandos filmed advancing through sparse woodland while attacking attacking Westkapelle, Walcheren, in the Netherlands, November 1944. Film: IWM COI 495 | Imperial War Museum London
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Royal Marine and Norwegian commandos filmed advancing through sparse woodland while attacking attacking Westkapelle, Walcheren, in the Netherlands, November 1944. Film: IWM COI 495 | Imperial War Museum London
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British soldiers load and fire a 6-inch 30cwt howitzer in the desert during the Battle of Ramadi, Mesopotamian Front, 28-29 September 1917. Film: IWM 59 | Imperial War Museum London
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British soldiers load and fire a 6-inch 30cwt howitzer in the desert during the Battle of Ramadi, Mesopotamian Front, 28-29 September 1917. Film: IWM 59 | Imperial War Museum London
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Allied forces land in the Netherlands at the start of Operation Market Garden, September 1944. See more images from the operation here: https://bit.ly/3Es8Pw9 Film: IWM COI 2 | Imperial War Museum London
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Ground crew sit on the tail of a Spitfire as its engine starts up to stop it from rising off the ground. Filmed in 1942 at RAF Hornchurch. Film: IWM ARY 9 | Imperial War Museum London
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Some of the duties and training of the Guards filmed for a 1960 British government film, 'Her Majesty's Guards'. You can watch the full film on our film collections website here: bit.ly/3TwZafT Film: IWM COI 765 | Imperial War Museum London
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A look at the V1, produced for the RAF's 'Gen' series of films for screening to RAF personnel at home and overseas during the Second World War. Find the full film here on our website: https://bit.ly/3TiiA7X Film: IWM GEN 7 | Imperial War Museum London
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The Infantryman - this Army instructional film from 1956 celebrates infantrymen as the most important part of any army. The full film is available on our website: https://bit.ly/43S4RZR © IWM DRA 1111 | Imperial War Museum London
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A Canadian sniper filmed firing from the ruins of a house's front room on the Western Front, February 1916. Film: IWM 255 | Imperial War Museum London
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Infantry of the West Yorkshire Regiment walk by Lee medium tanks during the advance north from Imphal in Manipur, India, towards Kohima, 1944. You can read about the Battles of Imphal and Kohima on our website: https://bit.ly/42FHHoc Film: IWM MWY 27 | Imperial War Museum London
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Royal Navy recruits receive physical training. The clip comes from 'A Sailor Is Born', a 1949 Admiralty-sponsored film. Find it in full here: https://bit.ly/40ZqbeK Film: IWM UKY 1180 | Imperial War Museum London
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Boeing B-52s, an RAF Vulcan and Convair F-106 Delta Darts feature in this 1960 NATO film on aircraft and the problems of aerial navigation. Watch the full film on our collections website here: https://bit.ly/3XPmJTK Film: IWM NAT 2031 | Imperial War Museum London
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Advanced weapon handling filmed in Britain in 1943, with a Bren gunner trying out different firing positions. The clip comes from a training film sponsored by the War Office titled 'Use of Fire'. Find it in full on our website: https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/994 Film: IWM DRA 444 | Imperial War Museum London
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Members of the Coventry branch of the Warwickshire Home Guard parade through the streets in this amateur film shot by Lieutenant Leonard Stanley North, a rifle instructor associated with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1942. Film: IWM MGH 6900 | Imperial War Museum London
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A marksman serving with the 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment's 'B' company attaches telescopic sights to his Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifle near Venraij, the Netherlands, October 1944. Film: IWM A70 180-5 | Imperial War Museum London
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Footage from Operation Dracula, the amphibious assault on the banks of the Rangoon River, Burma, May 1945. You can read more about the war in Burma here: https://bit.ly/3ZDOFu4 Film: IWM ADM 522 | Imperial War Museum London
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A Mark V tank demonstrates its ability to turn on its axis by locking one track. Filmed in October 1918, probably at the Tank Corps Central Stores at Erin on Western Front. Film: IWM 357 | Imperial War Museum London
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Scots Guards entertain crowds with a dance during a charity event at Versailles, France, July 1916. Film: IWM (NTB 256-1) | Imperial War Museum London
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Riflemen of the 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry open fire on German snipers around the Cheux-Vendes/Fontenay-Rauray crossroads, June 1944. Subsequent clips show Waffen SS prisoners being taken. Film: IWM A70 60-3 | Imperial War Museum London
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A day attack by Avro Lancaster bombers of RAAF 463 Squadron against German positions in front of a mainly American ground attack in the Caumont-Villiers Bocage area, France, July 1944. The footage was filmed by on board cameras from a camera plane piloted by Flight Lieutenant Merrill. You can find the full footage on our film website here: https://bit.ly/4fpapR8 Film: IWM OPX 185 | Imperial War Museum London
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What to do when an incendiary bomb falls into your house. This film from the Second World War, titled 'Go to Blazes', was produced by the British Ministry of Information in 1942 to illustrate the correct procedure for extinguishing incendiary bombs. The film stars comedian Will Hay as a father who, after some difficulty and help from his daughter, learns how to deal with the bombs safely and swiftly. You can watch full film on our website: https://bit.ly/426boRr Film: IWM COI 957 | Imperial War
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Observers watch a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, 1946. Film: IWM WPN 275 | Imperial War Museum London
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A Home Guard unit demonstrates mobile flamethrowers in this amateur colour footage shot by Major Albert Eric Titley while serving with his local Home Guard unit in Wiltshire during the Second World War. Find the full footage here: https://bit.ly/3WpPYLN Film: IWM MGH 6799 | Imperial War Museum London
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British soldiers respond to a staged IRA ambush in this 1978 film produced by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment. You can watch the film in full on our website: https://bit.ly/4eXVgVJ © Crown copyright. IWM (MIL 307) | Imperial War Museum London
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Consolidated Catalinas filmed in flight for an RAF aircraft recognition study, September 1945. Full film here: https://bit.ly/4hSHJQM Film: IWM ARY 7-59 | Imperial War Museum London
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Ferrets - 'just about the world's most successful scout car ever' according to the narrator of this 1966 film produced by the British government. The film follows two Ferret scout cars of 20th Armoured Brigade Group as they race around Europe and be viewed in full on our website: bit.ly/3QDUJ1J © IWM COI 303 | Imperial War Museum London
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