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    "Hurricanes find new way to Suez."

    "Coloured boys supervised by white men" construct an airfield in the jungle near a West African port (name censored). Film shows felling of trees, screening of soil, rolling, tar- ...

     
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    BURMA 2 1942

    COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

    Aerial shots, mills and river, serial shots, airfield, pagoda, platations. Landing airfield, Austor taxiing, wreckage of plant. Cu Burma rifles shoulder flashes troops through jungle. Kachin Levies ...

     
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    COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

    Burmese people sitting on floor on board a boat. A Buddhist monk reads a newspaper. Burmese children (in Western clothes). Birds flying over the Irrawaddy River. women look out over the side of the boat. ...

     
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    Burma, 19 March 1942. Long shots of the Myotha Hills. Various shots of Burmese civilians driving bullock carts along a dirt road. View over along the Ava Bridge. Cars passing the a manned, gated checkpoint. View of the bridge from a protective machine ...

     
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    22 February 1942: short panning shot over camouflaged tented camp on the edge of the airfield at Magwe, Burma, ending with group shot of personnel of RAF Squadron 113 outside of one of the larger tents posing for the cameraman. Individual shots of ...

     
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    Magwe, Burma, 23 February 1942. Aircraft and personnel of RAF Squadron 113. Aircrew in the back of a lorry driving to Bristol Blenheim Mk IV aircraft. Various self-conscious shots of aircrew fastening themselves into their parachutes and climbing in ...

     
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    I. Burma, late February 1942. Mid shots of fires in the distance, long shots of aircraft in the sky (poor quality), probably footage of a bombing raid on Magwe airfield.

    II. Magwe, Burma, 27 February 1942. Brief shot of the cameraman's (?) ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Film of locations of the landings made on 5 May 1942 when the Royal Navy carrying the Commandos and the 29th Infantry Brigade landed at Courrier Bay and the landing point " ...

     
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    Reel 1: Credits roll over disintegrating Union Jack. Aerial view of Hong Kong establishes site of Britain's approaching defeat, here garrisoned by turbaned Indian troops. Union Jacks fly over commercial centre of the colony, where two well- ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.

    The Guard of ...

     
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    AMATEUR. Film of refugee and flood rescue operations in Burma.

    Chaukan I. Diyum River. Flood rescues; elephants; Captain Whitehouse rescue. Rossiter family rescue.

    Chaukan II. Namgoi Nuk. Rescue operations of refugees coming from Burma by ...

     
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    Tour round India by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.

    The film opens by giving a brief background to the war in China, and then follows the couple on their tour showing parades, press calls and so on.

     
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    CHINA 1942

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    A sympathetic look at "the storm centre of the war in the Far East".

    Reel 1 explains China's geography and culture, concentrating on 20th century history of efforts by Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-shek to modernise ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 Scenes at Scapa Flow filmed on 4 March 1941: a port side profile of the battleship HMS Nelson in a dark grey paint scheme used by the Home Fleet on its large warships at this time in the war; she carries two Unrifled Projector (U/P) ...

     
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    DOCUMENTARY. A record of the accession of Mutesa II in Kampala, 19th-20th November 1942.

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Free boxing fair and fun fair at St Elmo, Lower Valletta, run by the army for the services and also open to civilians. Bomb damage visible in the hall, the largest hall in Europe. Soldiers and civilians ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    8 Mar. 1942. First stage of General Auchinleck's journey from Cairo to Baghdad. He boards a plane at Heliopolis Aerodrome. The plane stops at Lydda (near Jaffa) to refuel. On arrival at Baghdad he is met ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    The crew visit the 23rd Battery of the 11th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Malta Artillery at San Pietra. They look at one of the 4.5 inch guns and chat with the Maltese gunners. At Benghaisa they ...

     
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    MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

    I. Reel One. A Sector, Algiers. LCM(1) 73 runs inshore near Algiers carrying troops who wave to the cameraman - they disembark and proceed inland. LS off the starboard bow of Viceroy of India and pan left to ...

     
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    MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS OF THE ROYAL NAVYGB

    I. Convoy at sea. XLS off the port bow of an escorting Leander Class cruiser - the cruiser fires repeatedly off to starboard. MS as HMS Porpoise flashes a signal - conditions are rough and overcast, and the ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Observation procedure preceding a long range gun attack.

    Men from the 426th South Nottinghamshire (Hussars) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery firing a 5.5-inch gun. ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Cyprus Coastal Defence Battery practising Action Stations.

    Telephone orderly receiving message at observation post from Naval Command that an unidentified ship is in the ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Members of 606 Company the Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit) in Famagusta.

    Palestinian troops rushing out of billets on an alarm being given. Fixing bayonets. Troops ...

     
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    BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    26 Feb 1944. Recruits read the sign at the Recruiting Office then proceed to the office. They draw kit from the Quartermaster's stores. The Provost Sergeant hoists the Union Jack for reveille. Bugler ...