... police school for the duration of the war. The dogs, guided by their handlers, ... itself." Churchill visits a New Zealand desert war grave cemetery and then is shown driving ... . The commentary points out that the war in the Pacific extends over vast distances ...

... " in Libya and Eritrea as Ordnance QF 25-pounders and 5.5-in medium guns fire at unseen targets. A column of Italian Army prisoners of war are escorted along a desert road to a holding camp. A South African Air Force (SAAF) bomb aimer drops incendiary ...

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I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' King Haakon VII of Norway accompanied by Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha mount a viewing podium in Hyde Park to view a march past of Free Norwegian subjects on the occasion of the King's seventieth birthday. ...

... removed negotiate anti-tank obstacles during an exercise.

II. 'THE PACIFIC WAR.' General Douglas MacArthur poses for photographs outside the ... the organ, the power and the gallantry for a war winning combined operation on the European continent."

... palace to hear Brazilian President Dr Getulio Dornelles Vargas declare war on Germany. Brazilian naval cadets march at a naval ... but that she will undoubtedly play an invaluable part in the Allied war effort. A Bucker Jungmann training aircraft taxies at a ...

... upper torso and arm muscles. Troops indulge in a strenuous bout of tug of war using ropes tied in a cruciform manner. Troops run up a ... on the third anniversary of the start of the Second World War. The frontal elevations of famous Abbeys and Cathedrals are ...

... up with the constant demand for tanks from the Russian war front. Ship to ship views show merchant supply convoy PQ-18 ... , a small coastal steamer manned by a Papuan crew transports war supplies to Port Moresby to support the Australian defensive campaign ...

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I. 'THE COMMANDO SPIRIT SPREADS.' The commentary outlines the adoption of the main tenets of Commando fighting methods by the forces of the United Nations. Gurkha troops make extensive use of foliage as cover during jungle exercises in Ceylon. ...

BRITISH NEWS

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... showing the village headman or 'mukhtar' aiding the British war effort in helping to recruit Arab men for the Palestine ... village near Hebron in Palestine during the Second World War.

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BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

AYY 181/1. 1 Jan. 1942. Royal Artillery outside Agedabia, Libya, preparing guns and gun positions. Furthest point south reached by the British army.

AYY 181/2. 3 Jan. 1942. Scots Guards in trench ...

... First Secretary Monsignor Charles Perico to captured German Catholic clergy and German and Italian prisoners at Helwan Prisoner of War Camp, Egypt. Official Divisional Captain Hans Frense. Shots of prisoners.

AYY 187/2. Fire-fighting demonstration ...