Operation Transom, Anglo-American carrier air strike on Wonokromo oil refinery and the harbour of Sourabaya in Java, 17 May, 1944
Opening sequence showing HMS Illustrious and ...
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret visit HMS King George V at Scapa Flow.
The royal party - HM King George VI, the Queen and Princesses ...
Carrier strike on Emmahaven and Indaroeng, Padang in South-West Sumatra.
HA.MS aft along the deck of HMS Indomitable to a running range of Barracudas - camera pans to follow ...
Strike against Car Nicobar Island on 17 October, 1944.
MS from focsle deck to X turret of cameraship HMS Renown - men sit on mushroom top ventilators in the foreground - a fuel ...
I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls.
II. "Pacific: GIs ...
Mute Newsreel dealing mainly with the fighting on Palau.
Marines wade ashore from LCAs. LS of the invasion fleet. Graphics indicate the location of Palau Island. LS of the effect of the naval bombardment - a smoke ...
Newsreel showing the fighting on Bougainville, November 1943-March 1944.
CU of MacArthur and Nimitz. The location of Bougainville. LS of shore bombardment by destroyer's Ground support - MS of ...
Close bombardment of Sabang by Dutch cruiser Tromp and RN and RAN destroyers. Cameraship was HMS Quality (?)
LS of battle fleet on the horizon - Illustrious Class carrier and ...
I. HMS Ceylon in port at Colombo. MS of Reverend Stephenson, the ship's chaplain, talking with Ceylonese dignitaries - Mr Mamujee, Mr de Silva and Mr Corea. Royal Marine band plays. MS pan right to left across ...
War with Japan.
Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...
This RAF instructional film shows the Supermarine Spitfire's various rles in different theatres of war and traces the aircraft's evolution from the victory of the Supermarine S-5 in the ...
