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  1. ATS Women Help Gunners

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098679
    Story no
    1 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    At an experimental gunnery station the intricate job of plotting shell bursts is done by selected Auxiliary Training Service (ATS) women.

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  2. The Queen’s Messengers

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098680
    Story no
    2 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    The Queen and Lord Woolton inspect food lorries for the bombed areas. The vehicles form a complete unit capable of feeding a town. They bear the insignia "Food Flying Squad" or "Queen’s Messengers".

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  3. More Aerodromes for the RAF

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098681
    Story no
    3 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    An airfield in the making from the bulldozer clearing and levelling a field, concrete mixer, workmen laying the concrete to the finished runway with a bomber preparing to land.

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  4. Track Target for Air Gunners

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098682
    Story no
    4 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Gunnery tuition by the "tin hare" method. At the press of a foot pedal, a model aircraft moves round track making a moving target for gunners who are seated in a gun turret mounted on the ground.

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  5. Atlantic Bases Agreement Signed

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098683
    Story no
    5 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    American Ambassador Winant arrives at No 10 and is greeted by Prime Minister Churchill. He is there for the signing of the Agreement by which Britain leases Atlantic bases to the United States. Also at the...

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  6. The Call for Women

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098684
    Story no
    6 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Girls in their early twenties are interviewed about doing their bit for the war effort. One of them wants to join the Land Army, another to work in munitions factory, etc.

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  7. Canada Builds Bren Gun Carriers

    Date released
    31 Mar 1941
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    41/26
    NoS ID
    098685
    Story no
    7 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Canadians working day and night are busy turning out the army’s first Canadian built Universal Carrier. The 4-ton self-tracking vehicles which can do over 40 mph can operate over the roughest terrain and...

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