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    RAF BURMA 1942

    COLONEL HODGKINSON - SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMANDGB

    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 ...

     
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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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    United States of America

    "Lowell Thomas Magic Carpet of Movietone" "The Thaw Asiatic Expedition in Cinecolor" A visit to glittering Mysore. The Thaw's host, the Maharaja of Mysore, is shown around the expedition tour vehicles. Krishnaraja Sagar dam. ...

     
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    A feature film made by the Japanese, using the appropriated facilities of the Hong Kong film industry to illustrate the Japanese attack on Hong Kong. A propaganda film which revolves around the Japanese troops' ...

     
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    START 00:00:00 At sea in the western Mediterranean with Force H, circa 10 - 13 November 1941: three men are transferred from foc'sle of HMS Laforey to the aircraft carrier HMS Argus in a cargo net as the destroyer steams at slow speed along the much ...

     
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    I. 'GIBRALTAR.' The Duke of Gloucester and Lord Gort (C-in-C Gibraltar) on a tour of the defences of "Britain's stronghold at the gateway to the Mediterranean". Panoramic views of the Rock of Gibraltar from the sea with Merchant shipping using the ...

     
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    I. 'SOUTH AFRICA.' Motorcycle outriders lead a parade of South African infantry armed with Lee-Enfield .303-in Mk III rifles. The parade is watched by a large number of civilian onlookers. The commentary states following a call from General Smuts, ...

     
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    I. 'NEWS FROM ENGLAND.' An introduction to some of the latest types of United States aircraft arriving disassembled in crates as part of the Anglo-American lend-lease scheme. Crated aircraft parts are towed into an assembly area. Anti-corrosion paint ...

     
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    I. 'AUSTRALIA.' Imperial Australian forces led by a brass band march past crowds of civilian onlookers along a street in central Melbourne. The commentary states that Australia is in the war "up to the hilt" over scenes of parading Bren gun carriers ...

     
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    I. 'HMS DUKE OF YORK.' The commentary points out that the battleship HMS Duke of York (King George V Class) was the ship which took Churchill on his recent visit to the United States. HMS Duke of York is visible on the horizon with smoke from her ...

     
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    I. 'THE DAY WILL COME.' The commentary outlines a history of Japanese aggression over footage of Emperor Hirohito of Japan inspecting armoured crews with SHI-KI command tanks evident in the background. Japanese SHI-KI, CHI-HA and I-GO amphibious ...

     
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    I. 'AMERICA'S NEW FLYING WING.' A Northrop N9M-B flying wing (one third scale development aircraft for the projected XB-35 bomber) has its propellers hand-started and taxies for a take off from salt lake flats (Muroc ?), its tricycle undercarriage ...