CONVOY HEROES 1942
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A North African convoy on the first leg of its voyage from England to Gibraltar.
Convoy at sea. MS fine on the port bow of a passenger ship in heavy sea. LS to a second ship ...
The copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia.
A film in three parts looking at the process of extracting copper ore from waste rock and smelting the refined metal into pure copper bars.
Part 1. Milling Shows the various crushing and grinding machines, including: the primary ...
Bodh Chandra Singh, Maharaja of Manipur ...
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. ...
Motor transport of IV Corps crosses a Bailey bridge near Toungoo (Taungoo) during the Allied drive on Rangoon, Burma.
An Ordnance QF 40mm (Bofors) ...
Somewhere in northern Burma, a small wooden bridge is used by men, mules and vehicles to cross a river.
Indian troops pass camera. They pass through ...
Reel 1: Pan across a beachhead on the banks of the River Chindwin showing men, mules and a number of jeeps. Brief shot of men washing and shaving on the riverbank. Mules are led ...
The RAF provides air cover and drops supplies for men of the 2nd Division as they cross the River Irrawaddy, Burma.
Distant shot of Spitfire ...