Support Force East bombards coast and defends transports from air attack. One merchantman is hit by bombs and has to be abandoned.

Reel One. Opening scenes onboard a Colony ...

Repatriated British prisoners arrive at Port Said in the British India cargo-passenger ship SS Talma. The actual exchange of prisoners had taken place at the Turkish port of Mersin ...

Cameracraft crosses bows of anchored Italian submarine and passes down starboard side to give CU of the conning tower - it is a Flutto Class boat, probably Vortice or Marea. MS off the submarine's starboard ...

A party of Turkish military officers are shown around the battleship HMS Nelson and the carrier HMS Formidable.

(i) The Turkish Naval Observer, Commander Orbay, comes aboard ...

A North African convoy on the first leg of its voyage from England to Gibraltar.

Convoy at sea. MS fine on the port bow of a passenger ship in heavy sea. LS to a second ship ...

I. Reel one. Introduction, origin of the DUKW, and basic performance and handling characteristics. Trainees learn convoy driving, and the vital importance of proper tyre pressure on different surfaces - ...

Unedited rushes. Including historic meeting between Winston Churchill and President of Tukey, President Inonu.

Unedited rushes.

Unedited rushes.

1. Preparing new advanced landing grounds. 2. 25th RAF Anniversary in Malta. 3. Bayliss material on new landing grounds.

Unedited rushes. This was the largest convoy to enter Tripoli Harbour.

Unedited rushes.

Unedited rushes.

8 April 1943. The General Officer Commander-in-Chief of Malta, Major General W H Oxley, arriving and talking to Royal Malta Artillery (RMA) officers at the parade ground in Floriana. Lord Gort inspecting ...

7 May 1943. First escort vessel and merchant ship City of Florence enters harbour at Valletta. Harbour tug proceeds to ships. Naval crew of Multipol Pompom watching ships. Material unloaded into lighters ...

20 Aug. 1943. General Giraud is greeted at Luqa Airfield by Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park and Major General W H Oxley. He inspects the RAF Regiment Guard of Honour and proceeds to Verdalla Palace where ...

14 Sep.1943. Shots of the three large Italian ships off Malta, the cruiser Eugenio di Savoia and the battleships Italia (late Littorio) and Vittorio Veneto. Shots taken from the north coast of the island ...

25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...

23 Nov. 1943.The Prime Minister with Lord Gort is shown around the dockyard by Vice Admiral Hamilton and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Mackenzie. Churchill gives the V for Victory sign and smokes a ...

US President Theodore Roosevelt, General Eisenhower and staff visit Malta.

From the seat of a jeep President Roosevelt addresses Lord Gort and Maltese personalities and ...

British Army training film detailing the rigorous physical training techniques used in the Middle East School of Physical Training, with an introduction by General Alexander stressing the need for troops to be "fighting ...

21 January. The Queens Royal Regiment in Bren gun carriers advancing along the road from Tarhunah on the last lap to Tripoli. The regiment marching in single file along the side of the road.

23 ...

Men of the 126 Native Labour Company, 18th Group, Pioneers receiving their pay from Lieutenant Derrarb of a French cavalry regiment near Souk El Arba, Tunisia.

Men ...

Sir Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, visits Richard Casey and the 237 Rhodesian Squadron, RAF at El Daba. The Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Colonel Day leave ...

Indian sappers and miners clearing a pass in the mountains south west of the Mareth Line for the advance of the Fourth Indian Division. Cave dwellers in the Matmata mountains ...

Indian sappers and miners detect and clear mines left by the retreating Germans on the road beyond Gabs. The Fourth Indian Division Field Artillery in an attack on Mount ...

Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.

Troops of ...

6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.

Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...

The Commander-in-Chief visits repatriated prisoners of war at a tea party given at the British Embassy in Cairo.

General Montgomery with Lady Lampson and South African, ...

The General Officer Commanding the Palestine Base opens a leave camp near Nathanya, Palestine, for troops stationed in Egypt and Palestine.

Brigadier I C Cameron, the ...

The 4th Indian Division in the assault on the Enfidaville Line.

A battery of 25 pounder guns in action in support of an Indian infantry attack. The troops loading pack ...

The 4th Indian Division in Enfidaville are visited by the Corps Commander.

Indian signallers laying a line through the town as it is attacked by shell fire. Scenes ...

The 4th Indian Division prepares for the Battle of Tunis.

Gurkhas looking at scale models of the features they are planning to attack. Indians sharpening their kukris ...

Scenes in the interior of two Armoured Control Vehicles near Medjez El Bab.

Panning shot from a radio operator receiving a message to the operator handing the message to ...

The 4th Indian Division moving up the Tunisian roads to their concentration area.

Vehicles of the 4th Indian Division moving along the road from Teboursouk towards ...

Edited film with commentary depicting the Chindits setting out on Operation Longcloth, their first raiding expedition behind Japanese lines, under the leadership of Brigadier Orde Wingate.

Titles: 'Public ...

The arrival of General von Arnim at Maison Blanche aerodrome on his way to internment.

Von Arnim arrives at the airport and is escorted to a waiting staff car. Von Arnim ...

The cruiser Aurora with the King on board sails into Grand Harbour, Valletta. Field Marshal Viscount Gort leaves the Customs House steps and boards the Admiral's barge. The King arrives alongside the ...

The Commanding Officer of the King's Dragoon Guards is presented to the King, followed by the 12th Lancers and the 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. The King drives up and the Commanding Officer of ...

A long stretch of beach. Beach with rocks in the foreground. Tents among the trees and bushes. A man walks through the trees to his tent. Another man walks to his tent. Two men walk into the sports store ...

King George VI visits Malta.

Crowds lining the steps as the cruiser HMS Aurora passes in front of them. HMS Aurora with the King aboard. The barge approaching the shore. ...

Women of the various services, and from various Empire countries, serving in the Middle East theatre of operations.

WRNS are seen (in summer uniforms) filing, taking shorthand, operating teleprinters, visiting a ship ...

Film about the Axis air offensive against Malta.

British supply effort, upon which the island is dependent, is rendered difficult by the great distance of the island from British bases and its closeness to Italian ...

Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people the West Indians' contribution to the war effort.

Una Marson introduces: Learie Constantine (the cricketer, ...

An explanation (relying heavily on maps) of the importance of the war against Japan, and the current strategic outlook.

An opening recalls that this is "the real war" to China and to many Americans and Australians, ...

I. The RAF Regiment at Buckingham Palace. The RAF Regiment mounts guard at Buckingham Palace (April 1) as part of RAF twenty fifth anniversary celebrations. King and Queen visit air stations, and watch ground activity and Spitfires taking off ...

I. "Action." a. Bombers fly over North African encampments. b. Aerial film of Pantelleria: also of Bostons and Mitchells in action.

II. "It's a Fact - the Desert." RAF's thousandth 'kill' celebrated at Grosvenor House. Group Captains Malan and ...

I. Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs visits Portugal. General Count Jordana arrives at Spanish-Portuguese frontier at start of official visit and inspects Portuguese guard of honour before taking salute at marchpast. Still in General's uniform ...

I. Diplomatic Corps greet Franco in New Year reception. Diplomats in ceremonial dress arrive with their wives inside palace where they greet Spanish leader (dressed in admiral's uniform) and his wife Carmen, who smilingly shakes hands with ...