THE POTTERS BAR ZEPPELIN WAS SHOT DOWN ON 1st OCTOBER 1916, BY WULSTAN TEMPEST OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE’S 39 SQUADRON. THE PILOT OF THE ZEPPELIN, ,NDER HEINRICH MATHY AND HIS CREW WERE BURIED IN MUTTON LANE CEMETRY, POTTERS BAR. BUT DURING THE 1930s THEIR BODIES WERE DUG UP AND RETURNED TO GERMANY. WULSTAN TEMPEST NOW HAS 2 ROADS NAMED AFTER HIM, TEMPEST AVENUE AND WULSTAN PARK, WHERE THE ZEPPELIN CRASHED. THE WOODEN ARCH SEEN IN THE FUNERAL SCENE, STILL STANDS TODAY.
On October 28, 1947, Dalton Trumbo testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities; this is the beginning of that testimony.
A series of video interviews with the gardeners of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission marking the ninetieth anniversary of that important organization.
Black and white film footage from the Second World War depicting the German and Soviet infantrymen.
Various clips from the video, “World War 1 in Color” (which can be purchased on this site) depicting those who participated in the air war portion of the slaughter.
A slide show set to somber music featuring color photographs of the 1914 – 1918 war. The first experiments with color photography were carried out in 1904 near Lyon in France, where father Lumière owned a photographic factory. In 1907 the Lumière brothers patented the auto-chrome process they had invented.
Captured color WW II footage of German Scientist Werner Von Braun and his rocket engine experiments such as the V-2.
Truly remarkable color film footage depicting the life (and death)on board a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier during World War II. Authentic color combat footage is included.
German color propaganda film from 1941 (excerpt) about the Afrika Korps attack on a British ammunitions dump in the desert near Tobruk.
This footage is from the movie “Trinity and Beyond”, directed by Peter Kuran.Operation Dominic I was a series nuclear test explosions conducted in 1962 and 1963 by the United States in the Pacific. This one was dropped from a B-52 bomber aircraft on the Christmas Island. Exact Date (1962-1963) and Yield unknown (a few megatons).
Clip shows the landing from the sea and a Japanese unit advancing under heavy fire. A soldier could be seen cutting the barb wire fence before the rest charged into the gap.Also seen are tanks along the Singapore Padang with City Hall at the background and the reception given to General Yamashita by the surrendering British and Indian troops.The music is a Japanese Naval march called the “March of the Warships” (軍艦行進曲)or the “Gunkan March”. It was composed in 1897 by naval troop band leader Tokichi Setoguchi, the words were written by Hiraku Toriyama. It was used as the march of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and after WW II re-adopted as the march of the Maritime Self Defense Forces of Japan.
Remarkably clear color footage of Nazi soldiers fighting along the Eastern Front; Nazi scientists at their rocket facilities, Third Reich thugs parading in the streets of German cities; the clip ends in a North African grave yard.
A Fashion Show Sequence from 1929 with Rosetta and Vivien Duncan and Lawrence Gray.
