I. 'BURMA.' A Japanese prisoner is escorted by club wielding British troops into a jungle encampment during a lull in the fighting on the Arakan front. Wounded Japanese on stretchers are off-loaded from the back of a British soft-skinned vehicle. The commentary stresses that the Japanese prisoners receive the same medical treatment as that given to all Allied casualties. A Japanese prisoner has his leg placed in a cast by a British doctor as other British officers look on. The commentary states that over five thousand Japanese have been killed or seriously wounded since their encirclement by British forces. A 30-cwt 4x2 Indian Army type ambulance on a Chevrolet chassis drives past the camera. British M3 Grant tanks of the Seventh Armoured Division (7th Hussars ?) move up to attack enemy positions held by the Japanese 55th Division. The crews of the Grant tanks mount their vehicles and prepare to move off along a jungle road. General H R Briggs of the Fifth Indian Division consults maps and converses with officers at a tented encampment. A British M3 Grant tank fires its sponson-mounted 75mm gun at unseen enemy targets. A British M3 Grant tank manoeuvres on a jungle track (riveted hull, possibly an M3A5 variant). The commentary states that the enemy 55th Division had "been thrashed" and that British troops were moving into position "ready for their next crack at the wily and treacherous Japs."

II. 'MIDDLE EAST NEWS.' An item covering two big sporting events that were played at the King Farouk Sports Club and the El Alamein Club in Cairo. The first event is a football match played between the British services team (The Wanderers) and an Egyptian eleven. Views of the match, which was played at the King Farouk Sports Club follow showing an Egyptian win. At the Alamein Club large crowds of off-duty military personnel watch a rugby football match between members of the South African 6th Armoured Division and a "Rest of Egypt fifteen". Views of three excellent South African tries follow.

III. 'RUSSIA.' Brief aerial footage shows a Russian Air Force Lavochkin La-5 fighter aircraft escorting an unidentified camera aircraft as it overflies the Dnieper River. Air to ground footage shows the extensive meander of the river as the commentary describes the Dnieper as the world's most bitterly contested river. Russian 152mm Gaubitsa Pushka obr 1937g heavy guns fire across the Dnieper at high elevation. The commentary explains that the Germans halted their retreat and fortified themselves on the Dnieper River line, and goes on to outline the methods that the Russians used to encircle and destroy the German positions. Under the cover of artillery smokescreens, Russian pioneers construct assault bridges across the river. Russian infantry cross a partially constructed bridge armed with Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina obr 1941g 7.62mm sub-machine guns. Other Russian infantry use large rubber assault rafts and rowing boats to cross from one bank to another. A Russian Valentine tank (lend-lease) is driven off a ferry-raft and up a steep river bank. Brief footage shows the wreck of a knocked-out German Marder III self-propelled gun (front mounted engine). General Nikolai Vatutin watches the progress of the crossing of the Dnieper from a high vantage point, later talking to General Nikita Khrushchev.

Notes

Documentation: shotsheet, headed Goskino Newsreel No 66 - 67, lists Soviet production team and includes sections of text, which may have been composed at MOI for transfer to Cairo, or which may be parts of original Russian commentary