Unedited rushes.

Ships entering the Grand Harbour are the Rochester Castle, Melbourne Star and Port Chalmers. Cheering men from the Royal Malta Artillery watch. The damaged bows of the Brisbane Star. The destroyer G77 ( ...

RAF protection for two convoys. Spitfires and Beaufighters take off. Unloading from ships SS Troilus and SS Orari. A smoke screen covers Grand Harbour and the dockyard during Alerts. The army and Royal ...

I. Reel One. After an opening map showing the position of Malta there are establishing LSs over the convoy and its escorts - including the three carriers Furious, Victorious and Indomitable. Good MS off port ...

Newsreel item showing supply convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, Operation Harpoon.

Opening view of Gibraltar from a ship at sea. CU of the cameraman Hardy, changing lenses on his De Vry camera. LS of HMS Malaya with the ...

The GOC Major General Scobie visits the Command Fair to see a boxing match in aid of the Malta Convoy Fund. He leaves the fair accompanied by Brigadier de la Bere and Major Crossless.

Football ...

Soldiers and sailors convalescing from bomb wounds at the Convalescent Depot at St Georges in Malta. Playing quoits, gardening, bathing in St George's Bay.

Two platoons of the 2nd Battalion Queen's ...

Mute newsreel item

Maltese street scenes. Air-raid flag hoisted. Bofors crew man their gun. LS German Raider. Flak bursts. LS bombs exploding on the city. Fire tenders. LS of dive bomber and smoke pall created ...

The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...

FAR EAST COMMAND: THE MILITARY SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST

The situation in India in 1942.

Titles. Elephants heading along a road. A wide plain in India. Aeroplanes flying in formation and dropping bombs; Indians looking up in the air for the aircraft: 'to no people has war come with more shock and ...

The Indian contribution to the war effort.

Titles. Long lines of Indian troops advancing towards camera. A busy Indian street, with statue of British monarch visible in the background. Billboard with cartoon picture of Churchill saying, 'To ...

Film of action at Milne Bay, which was an almost completely Australian operation and one that dealt a blow to Japanese strategy.

The film begins by showing ships pouring in supplies. Inland are the first ...

A newsreel compilation picture ("presented to the Prime Minister") of Churchill's visit to Washington and Ottawa in December '41 - January '42.

WSC crosses the Atlantic on HMS Duke of York, accompanied by Chiefs of ...

Poles picking up their kits as they leave Tehran. They clamber up into the lorry. Polish cadets training, "eyes right" into camera then "eyes front". Polish NCO shouting the drill orders. The lorries ...

START 00:00:34 Views of an Arab village in the Hebron district of Palestine consisting of dwellings built from local stone. Villagers (almost exclusively male) in traditional Arab clothing. Camels in use as beasts of burden, donkeys grazing in the ...

I. "They must see in the dark." Airmen selected for night flying undergo a series of eye tests and corrective exercises at an RAF ophthalmic centre.

II. "Stirlings in the making." Stirling towed out of hangar. Production scenes show the ...

A Physical Training course at St Andrews Barracks, Malta, during a lull in enemy activity. Boxing and basketball. Instruction in unarmed combat.

Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men ...

Men handling bombs. Loading onto Aircraft. Setting fuses. Loading 0.50-inch machine gun ammunition into wing magazines. Working on engine. Cu guns in wings, an armourer checks the chambers. leaning wing ...

A Wellington Mk XIV, possibly of 458 Squadron, RAAF, is seen at dispersal. The crew walk to their aircraft and climb aboard. This is also seen in close up. Submarine 'kill' markings are seen close up on the nose next as is the bomb aimer and front ...

Aircraft are prepared for operations in support of the Dieppe Raid.

Firstly shots of Bostons are shot in good air to air views. Close ups are taken of the shoulder flashes of crews from various countries, namely ...

I. Tracking shots of numerous captured 5cm Pak 38 anti-tank guns lined up a desert location (Libya or Tunisia). Also visible are a heavier gun - possibly a 7.62cm Pak 36(r) - and a light artillery piece. Parts of guns and mortar bipods (without their ...

Refugees at Nampong. The rescue of Sir john Rowland's party and sixty three Indians from flooded island inNamphuk River.

June 1942. Newspaper close-ups referring to the Hur "menace" in Sind, including reports of the derailment of the Lahore mail train. Desert and camel scenes. Two Hurs are arrested by police. An army ...