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 ...