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    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    Air-to-ground footage of RAF Consolidated Liberator heavy bombers attacking installations and facilities at Moulmein (Mawlamyaing), Burma.

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    ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

    A firepower demonstration near Imphal including mortar and shell fire, smoke screens and bombing by RAF Hawker Hurricanes.

    Footage of a ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    Operation Transom, Anglo-American carrier air strike on Wonokromo oil refinery and the harbour of Sourabaya in Java, 17 May, 1944

    Opening sequence showing HMS Illustrious and ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret visit HMS King George V at Scapa Flow.

    The royal party - HM King George VI, the Queen and Princesses ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    Carrier strike on Emmahaven and Indaroeng, Padang in South-West Sumatra.

    HA.MS aft along the deck of HMS Indomitable to a running range of Barracudas - camera pans to follow ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    Strike against Car Nicobar Island on 17 October, 1944.

    MS from focsle deck to X turret of cameraship HMS Renown - men sit on mushroom top ventilators in the foreground - a fuel ...

     
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    United States of America

    I. "Pacific: Japs raid Saipan." (Reel 1) Saipan is a B-29 base in New Guinea. Night scenes of burning B-29s. Daylight firefighting, bulldozer in action. Second attack 12 hours later. Heavy smoke palls.

    II. "Pacific: GIs ...

     
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    Mute Newsreel dealing mainly with the fighting on Palau.

    Marines wade ashore from LCAs. LS of the invasion fleet. Graphics indicate the location of Palau Island. LS of the effect of the naval bombardment - a smoke ...

     
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    United States of America

    Newsreel showing the fighting on Bougainville, November 1943-March 1944.

    CU of MacArthur and Nimitz. The location of Bougainville. LS of shore bombardment by destroyer's Ground support - MS of ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    Close bombardment of Sabang by Dutch cruiser Tromp and RN and RAN destroyers. Cameraship was HMS Quality (?)

    LS of battle fleet on the horizon - Illustrious Class carrier and ...

     
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    BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EASTGB

    I. HMS Ceylon in port at Colombo. MS of Reverend Stephenson, the ship's chaplain, talking with Ceylonese dignitaries - Mr Mamujee, Mr de Silva and Mr Corea. Royal Marine band plays. MS pan right to left across ...

     
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    WORLD IN ACTIONCanada

    War with Japan.

    Early Japanese successes. Film of troops training. Expansion halted by US forces. Battle of Midway - US air attacks on shipping. Japan still exploits world's second largest empire. ...

     
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    SPITFIRES 1944

    RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT (SERIES 2)GB

    This RAF instructional film shows the Supermarine Spitfire's various rles in different theatres of war and traces the aircraft's evolution from the victory of the Supermarine S-5 in the ...

     
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    START 10:16:40 A view of a conical hill or kopje overlooking Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley and shots showing two Royal Navy officers, assisted by an African guide, scaling the peak and the panorama from this vantage point overlooking the south ...

     
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    START 10:30:58 A family group of Kikuyu women perform domestic tasks such as preparing meals and looking after infants. A group of male elders seated in a semi-circle drink maize beer through long straws from the same pot.

    10:32:58 Six women, ...

     
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    START 10:45:42 Mr Robinson, a British settler living in Limuru near Nairobi, strolls out of his farm house onto the lawn, lights up a cigarette and surveys his property from the garden fence. He is joined by his wife and together they return to the ...

     
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    START 10:59:20 Scenes at Kisumu, Kenya's main harbour on Lake Victoria: timber is unloaded onto the quayside by a steam-driven dockside crane from a Lake steamer and African troops from the Belgian Congo embark on board the SS Rusinga, another vessel ...

     
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    START 10:00:15 Filmed from their small fishing boat, Ugandan fishermen cast a net in shallow water on Lake Victoria. A woman purchases fish for cash. Back on shore, teams of fishermen haul in nets and collect flat fish and a local breed of eel (?). A ...

     
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    START 10:15:15 An African man demonstrates how to start a fire, using a straight wooden stick and a flat section of wood similar in size and shape to a six inch ruler in which three semi-circular indentations have been made. Heat created by the ...

     
  • AN EAST AFRICAN ARMY FIELD BAKERY
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    START 10:16:29 A morning parade for seven African NCOs and 27 Other Ranks wearing white cook's uniform serving with 10th Field Bakery. They march to the camp bakery and hold out their hands for inspection by three British officers, probably the camp ...

     
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    START 10:33:25 Two Ford 98T 3-ton lorries deliver the performers and prefabricated theatre pavilion belonging to the East Africa Command's African Entertainment Unit to an East African Command camp somewhere in Kenya. Members of the entertainment ...

     
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    START 10:39:12 An armed African sentry stands guard at the steel cantilever road and railway bridge spanning the River Nile shortly after it leaves Lake Victoria at Jinja in Uganda, eighty kilometres east of Kampala. An official notice sternly ...