Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.
LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...
Aerial shots from one of the Handley Page Hastings transport aircraft participating in the airborne assault on El Gamil.
LA.MS of Hastings transport in level flight right to left (the ...
Reel 1: Pan along a line of Indian Sikh troops cleaning their Ordnance ML 3-inch mortars. A three-man mortar team stands by their weapon, which a captain comes and inspects. ...
Gurkha paratroopers seen gearing up and boarding their aircraft before parachuting into action near Rangoon, Burma, as part of Operation Dracula ...
Documentary scenes showing the process of airfield construction in forward areas.
Various stages in the construction of an airfield, starting ...
The opening of the Kano International Airport in Nigeria, 4th may 1947.
Traditional greetings to visitors. A Comet airplane. Wing Commander Coleman, Director of Civil Aviation, at the official opening ceremony. Inspection of the ...
A coordinated attack takes place on Japanese positions along the Pindale to Mahlaing road north of Meiktila. Burma, involving artillery, North American ...
In northern Burma, American aircraft attack Japanese positions near Konkha and Major-General Festing visits the front line.
American P-47 ...
United States Army Air Force medium bombers attack pockets of Japanese resistance after the capture of Yamethin, Burma.
North American B-25 ...
AMATEUR. Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Camel race and general views of people and animals (35). Elephants (46). People (53). A food stall (58). Street scene showing stalls and buildings (82). ...
AKC News Parade film No.323, 13 April 1959; including visit of Prince Philip to Christmas Island; floods in Madagascar; the journey of US nuclear submarine USS Skate to the North Pole, and the scattering of the ashes of the Australian explorer, Sir ...
ACTUALITY. The knighting of the Alake of Abeokuta by the Governor General, Sir John MacPherson, in the presence of the Governor of the Western Region, Sir John Regan.
Edited scenes showing the ceremony on the parade ground, Saint Patrick's Barracks, Ballymena; also includes recruits from St Helena delivering family messages to camera, and a message from ...