I. 'THE COMMANDO SPIRIT SPREADS.' The commentary outlines the adoption of the main tenets of Commando fighting methods by the forces of the United Nations. Gurkha troops make extensive use of foliage as cover during jungle exercises in Ceylon. ...
I. "Factory beats bomber." a. A munitions factory damaged in a tip and run raid manages to resume production after only five days. Workers step through rubble to reach factory while victims of the raid sit smiling in hospital. RAF officer explains the ...
DOCUMENTARY. The Libyan campaign of 1940-41 in which General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.
r.1 British military cemetery in Jerusalem (122). The Pyramids from the air (188). Unloading of military supplies at ...
Last part of information film aimed at US Marine Corps recruits combines archive and dramatised sequences to recall heroic resistance against Japanese of Marines on US Pacific island outposts (Guam, Wake) after Pearl Harbor, and ...
Burma February 1942. RAF Squadron 113. Bristol Blenheim Mk VI aircraft in flight, various air-to-air shots. Shot of rear gunner position. Various interior shots of pilot and a rear view of the navigator (identified from the cameraman's original Dope ...
Unedited rushes.
Drama about an overseer of a rubber plantation.
Women's Auxiliary Army Services (South African) at 19th Base General Hospital, Geneifa, Egypt.
Doctor and nurse in operating theatre. Patient being given oxygen. Wounded ...
Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men working a circular saw in carpenters shop.
British and Maltese children take lessons together at the school at St Andrews Barracks with English and ...
Yorkshire Hussars in Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus, training on new A10, A13 and Valentine tanks. Plane instruction course.
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I. Funeral of Adolf Hhnlein. State funeral of founder of NSKK takes place in Armeemuseum cupola hall. Hitler enters, followed by Bormann, and kisses widow's hand and condoles with other relatives of one of his oldest followers. Funeral march ...
German newsreel presents first screening of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong and the victory parade through the latter.
On board a Japanese aircraft carrier in the Pacific, Nakajima B5N2 torpedo ...
A feature film made by the Japanese, using the appropriated facilities of the Hong Kong film industry to illustrate the Japanese attack on Hong Kong. A propaganda film which revolves around the Japanese troops' ...
The world in the 3rd year of war - a mixture of caution ("Today our world faces its greatest danger") and determination ("Preparing for the attack which must come").
Film stresses the global nature of the war, and ...
Rangoon docks, Burma 4 February 1942. View over dock area. Large number of Indian troops disembarking from a troop ship and marching along the docks. View over the harbour. Civilians working past a British soldier in full kit wearing a pith helmet. ...
START 00:00:00 At sea in the western Mediterranean with Force H, circa 10 - 13 November 1941: three men are transferred from foc'sle of HMS Laforey to the aircraft carrier HMS Argus in a cargo net as the destroyer steams at slow speed along the much ...
I. Burma, late March 1942. Men of the 1st Battalion Gloucester Regiment climb into a wooden-sided truck. Shots of the moving truck from another moving vehicle. Troops waving at the camera from the rear of the truck (one making the thumbs-up sign and ...
The George Cross exhibited at Zebbug.
A Spitfire. Barrage of HAA in the sky. Parachute coming down. Ju 88s dipping to bomb Luqa. Two submarines at Manoel: the submarines' smoke screen. A Ju 88 on ...
Newsreel item showing supply convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, Operation Harpoon.
Establishing LSs over the convoy. MLS off the starboard bow of HMS Liverpool steaming at speed. LS of HMS Malaya and pan right to HMS ...
Workers at Senglea waterfront, repairing the Brisbane Star. Bomb-damaged bastion of Cospicus. Workers looking at the Cross, which is guarded by the Dockyard Police and Royal Marines at Hammerton Wharf ...
I. Miscellaneous naval material. LS across harbour at Alexandria - Nelson Class battleship signals to shore. MS profile of H Class destroyer, Stern 3/4 MS, HMS Troubridge. Signal line shot between destroyers and despatch bag passed across. Night ...
I. Film opens by listing outstanding RAF events of the year (then continues with two newsreel items) which show that 1942 was the year of passing to the offensive. Outstanding achievements listed include Fighter Command's great sweeps, 1000-bomber ...
Opening titles - "Today the destiny of nations depends on their possession of the metals vital in war". Film outlines Canada's contribution to the Allied war effort with both raw minerals in the 'Great ...
The Punjab Premier visits troops.
Sikander Hayat Khan arrives at Eighth Army Tactical Headquarters in the Western Desert. He meets Lieutenant-General Ramsden and ...
