I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' HMS Indefatigable is launched down a Clydebank slipway as gathered crowds look on (completed May 5 1944). King George VI is given a tour of Indefatigable in Portsmouth prior to the ship sailing for the Far East. Accompanying ...

I. 'KING FAROUK VISITS BRITISH NAVY.' King Farouk of Egypt visits the Royal Navy (RN) escort carrier HMS Hunter and is shown talking to an unidentified RN Admiral. King Farouk is accompanied by a Royal Egyptian Navy (REN) Yuzbashi/Youzbashi ( ...

I. 'QUEEN WILHELMINA IN HOLLAND.' Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands crosses the border from Belgium into Holland, accompanied by an unidentified British Army officer. Queen Wilhelmina takes time to chat to assembled civilian well-wishers during her ...

Victory in Europe: A Tribute To Those Who Made It Possible.

I. 'VICTORY IN EUROPE- A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE.' An item made almost entirely of brief stock shot sequences. United States Navy (USN) ...

I. 'HOLLAND FREED.' Large numbers of Dutch civilians throng the centre of Rotterdam. Dutch civilians ride on Canadian soft-skinned vehicles. Civilians and nuns wave at the camera from the balcony of a Rotterdam hospital. Dutch civilians ride on ...

I. 'INSIDE GERMANY.' A Russian Army horse-drawn field kitchen moves through a devastated Berlin street. Extended footage shows bomb and shell damaged buildings and burnt-out German soft-skinned vehicles. A bullet-pocked road sign reading "Unter den ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' A map of South East England and Northern France shows the direction (via Dungeness, Boulogne, Calais) of the undersea pipe line for oil and petrol supplying the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe (PLUTO- Pipe Line Under The ...

I. 'LIBERATION OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.' Royal Navy landing craft (LCTA 051) sail into St Peter Port Harbour in Guernsey. Panoramic footage shows British merchantmen sailing towards the Channel Islands. Civilians stand outside the premises of George ...

I. 'BURMA - WILD ELEPHANTS TAMED.' Wild Indian elephants are shown in their natural habitat. Burmese woodsmen use tame elephants to herd them into captivity. Film footage shows the capture and training of the reluctant elephants.

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I. 'SPECIAL- POTSDAM CONFERENCE.' British Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill and his daughter Mary Churchill disembark from a United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Air Transport Command Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft where they are ...

I. 'BRITISH METEORS GIVE DISPLAY.' Royal Air Force (RAF) groundcrews manhandle a Gloster Meteor Mk III fighter aircraft into an engine start position. RAF groundcrews work on a Meteor fighter of 616 Squadron prior to a display being given in honour ...

Victory Over Japan.

I. 'VICTORY OVER JAPAN.' A retrospective victory issue summarising the war against Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan inspects troops of an armoured unit at a New Year's parade (cf WPN 45). Stock ...

I. 'BRUSSELS.' Elements of the Guards Armoured Division (British XXX Corps) march through the streets of Brussels as civilian spectators look on from the windows of surrounding buildings. A Guards Armoured Division pipe band makes its way towards the ...

I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are driven in an open carriage to St Paul's Cathedral for a day of national thanksgiving for victory over Japan. On the boundaries of the City of London, ...

I. 'MIDDLE EAST NEWS.' Air Marshal Sir Charles E H Medhurst (Commander Middle East Command) attends a drum-head service held in Alexandria in commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Air Marshal Medhurst takes the salute at a ...

I. "The other man's job. Stormboats for war in Pacific." Scenes of the manufacture of stormboats, flat-bottomed craft specially designed for landing small groups of men and equipment on beaches in the Pacific. Ash logs arrive at a sawmill where they ...

I. "The other man's job. Filling ten ton Tess." Workers pack solid and liquid explosive into a 22,000 lb bomb then inscribe facetious remarks ("Tickler for Hitler," "One for Adolf") on the casing before it leaves the factory by truck. Film of large ...

I. "The other man's job. Gears for everything." Production of gears, showing casting and testing of gear wheels and assembly of gear units.

II. "World War over. Japan surrenders." Japan's bid for world domination was ended by the dropping of ...

I. "The other man's job. It's cooler inside!" Manufacture of compressor units for use in refrigerators, refrigerated containers and air conditioning. Refrigeration kept food fresh and men healthy during the war. Item promises cheaper and better ...

At Thitseingyi on the River Irrawaddy in Burma, British troops fire mortars in support of a patrol, and others keep watch over the river.

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Indian Engineers (possibly of 44th Field Park Company) of 5th Indian Division, IV Indian Corps, use bulldozers to dig a waterhole on the road to Rangoon ...

I. Berlin: meeting of Allied Control Commission. Arrival (inspection of Guard of Honour etc) of Zhukov, Eisenhower, Koenig and Montgomery; optimistic commentary.

II. Return of art treasures to the Louvre: wartime storage ...

I. Munich: the famous glockenspiel in the Town Hall tower working again.

II. 'London fetes its heroes'. The RAF flypast (led by Douglas Bader); also film of Trafalgar Square, with V weapons on display; Attlee speaks (' ...

I. De Gaulle tours French-occupied zone of Germany, visiting Saarbrcken, Mainz etc, viewing remains of Westwall, and returning by launch across Rhine.

II. Report from Japan. a. Nagasaki A-bomb explosion. b. Hiroshima and ...