I. British Aid to Greece.

I. 'BRITISH AID TO GREECE.' Quayside views of Greek docks with heavy-lift cranes unloading British military supplies for use by the Greek military. British 4x2 trucks are unloaded. Cut to ...

I. 'BRITAIN IS READY.' British Prime Minister Winston Churchill watches army exercises. A convoy of troop carrying trucks drives along an isolated road towards the intended area of the exercise. Infantry then climb out of the trucks and set up ...

I. 'GENERAL DE GAULLE ENTERTAINED AT BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO. General Charles de Gaulle (C-in-C Free French) is entertained by Sir Miles (British Ambassador) and Lady Lampson at a garden party in the grounds of the British Embassy in Cairo. General de ...

I. 'SYRIA AND LEBANON.' Panoramic vista of the Roman ruins at Palmyra as British Bren gun carriers pass under a Roman archway. The Bren gun carriers are supported by British infantry, armed with .45 Thompson sub-machine guns and a .303-inch Bren ...

I. 'ABYSSINIA.' West African infantry cross a rapidly flowing river in Abyssinia as commentary points out that Italian resistance although limited, still needs mopping up. West African troops balance precariously on wooden planking as they cross the ...

I. 'GENERAL SMUTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' General Jan C Smuts arrives at Heliopolis airfield (Cairo), where he is met by Sir Miles Lampson, and is introduced to Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, and Admiral Sir Andrew B Cunningham and other officers. Sir ...

I. 'NEWS FLASHES-SYRIA.' General Sir Claude Auchinleck (C-in-C Middle East) talks informally to General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (Commander Allied forces Syrian campaign) during a tour of Syrian battlefields. Auchinleck views the area of recent ...

I. 'CYPRUS.' Title overlaid on map of the Eastern Mediterranean. Views of the rugged coastline of Cyprus, followed by a panoramic view of hills and fields. Cypriot children wade in pools created by a waterfall. Agricultural scenes of grain threshing ...

I. 'RAF SHARK FIGHTER SQUADRON.' RAF ground crews load 50-inch bullets into the nose-mounted Browning machine guns of a Curtiss Tomahawk fighter aircraft of 112 Squadron RAF, which bears "sharks mouth" insignia around its air intake and filter. The ...

I. 'TURKEY.' The celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the foundation of the Republic. President Inn arrives at Ankara Stadium in an open topped Jaguar tourer and is immediately surrounded by reporters and photographers. The Turkish President ...

Attack and Pursue.

I. 'ATTACK AND PURSUE.' Quentin Reynolds addresses the camera, informing the viewer that he is presenting a "typical day" with the British Army in the Western Desert. Indian troops standing behind ...

I. 'AROUND TOBRUK.' British Matilda II and Vickers light tanks manoeuvre in the desert near Tobruk. A Matilda Mk II tank drives past the camera position, moving off into desert scrub. German prisoners of war walk with their hands raised past British ...