POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

The story of HMS Victorious' 1960-1961 Far East commission.

PORTSMOUTH. HMS Victorious lies alongside with HMS Victory in the background. Before she leaves on her Far East tour she must work ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

A dramatised documentary showing the work of the frigate HMS Loch Lomond on patrol in the Persian Gulf.

Flag officer comes onboard to welcome the men of HMS Loch Lomond to the Persian Gulf. ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KUWAITGB

En route to Hong Kong HMS Victorious exercises her crew in riot squad drill. The exercise is not taken very seriously. In Reels Two and Three Victorious has reversed course and is steaming ...

... interest in African affairs and non-Commonwealth forms of government. Country registered no economic growth between the two world wars and the increasing profits from Sierra Leone's diamond mines, her main asset, have not been translated into new ...

... lsquo;warriors and vanquished, slaves and slavers, men who might have lived on in their primitive pattern of alternating peace and war but for the curiosity and tenacity of an exploring European – Livingstone’. The European influence is ‘ ...

... women do a dance whilst men play wooden recorders (510 ft.). Men in native head dress with spears and animal skin shields enact a war dance. The women continue with their dance at the same time. WB poses in chieftain head dress with a spear. Men drumming ...

... the Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland - arrival in Salisbury, visit to university, Bulawayo, Gwello, opens Kariba Dam, greeted by the Hones at Livingstone, Nehonga copper mine, Mufulira garden party, Lusaka, Zomba races, Blantyre war memorial, Limbe.

SEA WARGreat Britain

Last of 13 parts in the documentary series which depicts the history of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Defeat in the Far East turns into victory in three years.

... 's role in patiently fostering industry and self government, and the traditional loyalty of the Nigerian people who served in two World Wars, and now wish to maintain the Commonwealth link. Sixty years of British influence has left its mark - "There is ...

... cost of rearming; Nazi Germany as bulwark against Communism; sick of war.

"TRIUMPH OF THE AXIS" traces events up to the ... A-bomb which "probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives". The war itself created new problems.

A three part outline of ...

... of the Royal Navy, originally formed in 1917 and disbanded in 1919, and reformed in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War. New recruits are seen arriving at an unidentified naval base for basic training, where they are provided with their first ...

... by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore, & was imprisoned at Lintang Internment Camp, Kuching, Sarawak. After the war he served as a customs officer, District Officer, & then joined the secretariat in Jesseleton before becoming Resident in various ...