POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - RHODESIAGB

Aerial MS of HMS Fife (D.20) steaming at sea, with HMS Tiger in the background - the camera aircraft circles across Fife's bows. Cut to Tiger where various of the negotiators are gathered on the quarterdeck - Sir ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - SOUTH EAST ASIAGB

Hovercraft SRN5 is tested as a patrol and transport craft.

CUs of Captain Peter Beacon at the controls as the hovercraft moves off. CUs of the radar and radio operators, and ...

... on patrol in the jungle, and preparing a landing spot for the helicopters which play such a vital role in this war of confrontation. British major in command praises his Gurkhas as well disciplined, tough and cheerful troops. Film contrasts tribal houses ...

... is no question of negotiating with the rebels and promises to give the Pakistanis a crushing defeat. 2. Outline of the civil war in the Yemen which has now ended. Guerrilla tactics of ill-equipped mountain tribesmen supporting Royalist Iman Bada forced ...

... Officers of the British army.

In the 1950s, films about colonial wars in Malaya and Kenya had portrayed an empire that was ... ’, recalling ‘church parade in Singapore before the war’, and India — ‘Jewel of the East ...

... introduces local characters, such as Bill Robson and his daughter Liz, and shows local dances and songs around the campfire. The arrival of war takes our protagonist away from the farm and on his return, he finds his father 'a tired old man with the bad ...

... introduces local characters, such as Bill Robson and his daughter Liz, and shows local dances and songs around the campfire. The arrival of war takes our protagonist away from the farm and on his return, he finds his father 'a tired old man with the bad ...

... Leary MBE speaks. At Sarikei on Rajang River Colonel John Hewers praises his Gurkha troops and describes Confrontation as a "multiracial war." Major-General Walter C Walker, Director of Operations, asserts that Indonesians could not take over, even though ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - EAST AFRICAGB

HMS Centaur embarks men of 45 Royal Marine Commando, Ferret armoured cars of 16/5 Lancers, and RAF Belvedere helicopters for the voyage from Aden to Tanganyika.

LS pan over Aden ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

A pictorial record of activity on HMS ... Palma) - a boat trip, beach scene, a tug of war with the locals. Aerial sequence ... the crew indulge in yet another tug of war, this time for a prize of a pack ...

POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - ADENGB

HMS Fenton is one of two minesweepers re-commissioned for passage to England after five years in reserve at Aden. The object of the exercise was to prove that such vessels could be brought ...

... helicopter. Helicopters in fact play the key tactical role in the war in the Borneo jungle and fly soldiers to the small ... Dangers and difficulties which face the troops fighting this guerrilla war are matched by the task which confronts the British forces ...