AUCHINLECK’S TOUR 1943
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
Indian Engineers at work building a pontoon bridge. Pushing out ...
Part 1, filmed between 16 and 22 December 1943: Auchinleck meets ...
At Ambala airfield in the Punjab region ...
At Armada Road airfield near Calcutta ...
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
Part 1: The Governor (not specified on the dopesheet, but ...
At Jhelum in the Punjab, India (now ...
Part 1, shot by Tozer: At a forward airstrip the Viceroys aircraft ...
Somewhere in India, a column of the ...
Short film showing Royal Air Force ...
In forward areas on the Burma front, a ...
Footage from the town of Imphal in ...
Footage from the town of Imphal in ...
Sir John Colville arrives to take up ...
An undocumented film showing a girder ...
Troops of 10th Indian Division in Italy ...
I. Review of the Year 1943": "The Home Front": The U-Boat war turned in Britain's favour. Tribute to the RAF: scenes in an aircraft factory; shots of damage in Hamburg and Berlin. Third Anniversary of the Home Guard. The first prisoners ...
I. "Premier home from travels." a. Capture of Tripoli (aerial view) has finally eliminated the Italian colonial Empire. Soldiers of the 8th Army are seen walking towards the town before a Union flag is hoisted. Outside the city the Vice-Governor of ...
I. "Americans blitz Renault Works." Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft take off from an airfield in Britain to bomb the Renault automobile and armaments factory at Billancourt, Paris. Target and River Seine are clearly visible from a great height. ...
I. "Jap convoy annihilated." Map of the Bismarck Sea area introduces report on the Allied destruction of a Japanese invasion force at sea off New Guinea. Reconnaissance film taken in March revealed the presence off Rabaul of a large number of ships, ...
I. "Twenty-five not out." Lieutenant General Devers, new US C-in-C in Britain, makes an address to the crew of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, the 'Memphis Belle', before they fly off to the United States where they will make a tour to ...
I. "The King with the Eighth." King George VI drives through Tripoli in a car with General Montgomery and afterwards along a road lined with troops standing to attention. During an inspection of an Indian Division the King presents a VC to a Gurkha ...
I. "RAF prang Turin." Map of Italy shows Turin's importance to the Axis powers as a railway centre for southward bound supplies. This is the target hit by British-based Lancasters in the "heaviest raid so far." Night aerial film shows blazes and ...