I. "Gunsite get-together." British and American ack-ack units have recently been exchanging officers and men in order to familiarise the Allies with each other. Men are seen together in the mess, being welcomed by an officer and manning ack-ack guns ...

I. "Knock out victory." British cruiserweight champion Freddie Mills easily outfights the one stone heavier Canadian heavyweight Al Delaney, who is knocked down before receiving a knock out blow. Fight was in aid of Russian war effort.

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I. "Whitsun 1944." Holiday scenes at Ascot races and Lord's Cricket Ground where Australian airmen are playing an English team. The match is watched by Australian Premier Curtin and High Commissioner Bruce as well as by the Maharajah of Kashmir and ...

I. "Tasting their own medicine." Inhabitants of small German village of Katarineburg await evacuation across the border to Belgium. US Army takes this step to prevent villagers passing on information to nearby German army.

II. "News from the ...

I. "Far East Fleet." Increasing strength of the British Fleet is illustrated by ships at sea, including 'King George V', at the time of attacks on Sabang, Medan and Padang on Sumatra. Ammunition is checked on the deck of a carrier, planes are bombed ...

I. "F.F.I. Visitors." 200 members of the FFI, on a tour of Britain, march past the Cenotaph (where a wreath is laid) then parade through London led by the band of the Scots Guards, before reaching Mansion House where they are greeted by the Lord ...

I. "Pictures tell Britain's Story to Paris." Ambassador Duff Cooper opens an exhibition organised by the Daily Mail which features Britain's "great war record", not always fully appreciated abroad. General Koenig, Governor of Paris, honours the ...

I. "Burma - latest newsreel highlights." a. Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese is met by his Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall, and C-in-C Ceylon, Major General Wetherall, as he arrives in Colombo to take up his new appointment as ...

I. "Queen with NFS girls." The Queen, with Princess Elizabeth, is received by Herbert Morrison as she arrives to watch a parade in London by women of the National Fire Service, who afterwards demonstrate their fitness in an outdoor display.

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Prior to his recent death in an air crash, General Orde Wingate receives SEAC Commander Mountbatten at his training base in India for Chindit operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.

I "The War in the South Pacific"

I General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz stand together beside map. American forces engage in jungle-fighting on Bougainville against Japanese Nippon Division, responsible for Nanking ...

I. "Attack on Hollandia."

"Attack on Hollandia" American B-24 Liberators bomb Japanese positions on northern coast of Dutch New Guinea. General MacArthur at sea observes, with ears plugged, the naval bombardment ...

(Reel 1) Introduction states that film describes Coastal Command's anti-U-boat operations up to June 1944. "Although weapons and tactics and areas have changed since then, the strategic principles and organisation of command remain the same." Air ...

Scenes of headquarters staff of RAF Coastal Command 19 Group at work, shot for inclusion in RAF COASTAL COMMAND.

Aerial view from Sunderland of convoy at anchorage off coast and of harbour ( ...

Training exercise at RAF School for Jungle Self-Preservation in India summarises for benefit of aircrews forced to land behind enemy lines best techniques for survival.

Commentary over film lists subjects of ...

I. "Heiress to the throne." Princess Elizabeth, now aged 18, visits the National Sea Scout Exhibition wearing the uniform of a Sea Ranger.

II. "Tito partisans train in Malta." Wounded Yugoslav partisans, including girls, convalesce at a special ...

I. "Nazis jittery, say returned prisoners." Liner with 638 repatriated prisoners on board docks at Liverpool, where Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey is among those waiting on the quayside. Germany is reported to be in a "bad state of nerves as ...

I. "The other man's job. How Army packs its punch." The packing of spare parts is "a fine art", a vital contribution to the Army's efficiency. Film shows care with which gun spares, shells etc are prepared and packed to withstand transport abroad and ...

START 00:00:00 Title 'Malta Convoy' and brief production credits.

00:00:24 A view of the Grand Harbour and part of the Valletta fortifications in the foreground. Dive-bombing attacks by Axis Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers on one of the ...

START 00:00:00 'Mobile Column takes Drivers from the Ranks' . A report on an exercise by the London Taxi Battalion of the Home Guard, showing taxi cabs collecting passengers at a mainline railway terminus (Paddington Station ?), leaving one unhappy ...

An introduction for soldiers to far east warfare.

The film gives a background summary of the war in the far east up to 1942 and then goes on to describe the extent of the theatre of war, showing the differing sorts ...

Private Valentino Owori of the East African Pioneer Corps receives the British Empire Medal from Lieutenant General R.G.W.H. Stone, Commander of the British Forces in Egypt ...

Scenes from the Army Exhibition in Nairobi in September 1944. The film depicts African and European schoolboys inspecting the exhibits, before showing African soldiers – ...

START 10:07:51 An African hand holds the official programme for '"An East African Dreams": A Military Pageant' held on 25th and 26th February 1944 (the patrons for this event are Kenya's governor, Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, and General Sir William ...

I. AIR COMMODORE H H THE NAWAB OF BHOPAL RECEIVED HIS ROYAL WARRANT OF COMMISSION

I. AIR COMMODORE H H THE NAWAB OF BHOPAL RECEIVED HIS ROYAL WARRANT OF COMMISSION - From September 1939 ...

Opening titles.

I. ‘Headlines from the Far East!’ American Army Air Force Nurses get off a plane in China and are greeted by Chinese nurses who, the commentary sheet notes, ‘trained in America& ...

I. ‘Allied Forces in Action on India-Burma Front’ India: Indian peasant labourers build new airfields, laying tarmac and cement surfaces. Shot of American bomber (B-25) coming in to land. New Guinea: ...

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I. ‘General MacArthur Leads Attack on Admiralty Islands’ Map of the world; arrow with legend ‘MACARTHUR’ points at the Pacific theatre, Australia and New Guinea circled ...

I. ‘Americans Win New Airbases in South Pacific’ Bombers (B-25s?) seen flying in formation toward Saidor. Bombing raid over small forested island, filmed from the air; bombs seen dropping and detonating on ...

Opening Titles

I. ‘Allied Armies in Burma Battle Japs on Wide Front’ Map of Asia, with arrow marking Burma. Shots of heavy rainfall and sodden conditions in Burma. Locals including children, under ...