"YANKS IN TANKS" 1942
Soldiers on a tank as it travels on a transporter.
(Reel 9) American tank crews attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry line up as the cook sounds the gong for lunch. The men sitting and ...
Soldiers on a tank as it travels on a transporter.
(Reel 9) American tank crews attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry line up as the cook sounds the gong for lunch. The men sitting and ...
AYY 199-1. 19 Mar. 1942. Firing of 2lb anti-tank guns at a practice shoot in Mena. Gun team in action, gun fired on and off the lorry.
AYY 199-2-1. 7 Mar. 1942. General Auchinleck holds investiture ...
I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men working the winch and then carrying road bearers past the camera. The camera introduces ...
I. "Grand Imperial military revue." Emperor Hirohito on horseback takes salute at parade of Imperial forces (at Yoyoki ?) on 8 January. Prodigious successes in first month of war have led to collapse of Anglo-American aspirations in East Asia. ...
I. "Vision of Peace in the Philippines." Natives on Mindanao work on a hemp plantation, planted two years ago by Japanese settlers. Palms are cut, dried, bound in bales and weighed. People of Asia have for generations suffered under the domination ...
Unedited rushes. Filmed in Tobruk, the Western Desert and West Africa.
Includes Wellington material in Tobruk and Hurricanes in West Africa.
I. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Shots of the bomb damage to the city, charred trees, buckled corrugated sheeting, rubble and partially demolished building.
II. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Group of men walking along a street ...
AYY 181/1. 1 Jan. 1942. Royal Artillery outside Agedabia, Libya, preparing guns and gun positions. Furthest point south reached by the British army.
AYY 181/2. 3 Jan. 1942. Scots Guards in trench ...
Delhi airport, Delhi, India, 12 June 1942. View over airfield control tower to aircraft in the sky. View over roof of car with Union flag to aircraft in the sky. Shot of airfield control tower with sandbag defences, across the airfield. Douglas C-47 ...
Amateur film of the construction of a road in Assam from Ledo to Assam by the Indian Tea Association.
Pan over hill terrain showing the route of a road under construction. A European in shorts standing by a lorry. Pan over hill ...
Unedited rushes. Air convoys in Takoradi and Ikeja, Lagos. Unloading Hurricane crates.
Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...
The work of the United Missions in the Copperbelt at Mindolo and Nkana, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
Title and credits. The undeveloped country except for a few chimneys and mine workshops. Young African women join husbands and are ...
Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.
Notes
Remarks: no dope sheet in file.
Tanks and troops at Port Tewfik, Egypt.
Anti-tank guns being towed away by trucks. Labourers at work on dockside. Valentine Mark III tanks running onto tank transporters ...
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Unedited rushes.
Attack against the enemy at El Ruweisat, south of the El Alamein Box.
Attack by 161 Brigade, 5th Indian Division and the 22nd and 23rd Armoured Brigades on El Ruweisat ...
Movement of transport towards the fighting at the Battle of El Alamein.
Transport, anti-aircraft guns and tanks moving forwards towards El Alamein positions. Shelling of ...
Demonstrations by assault party with bayonets and hand grenades at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay, Malta. Bren gun bullets hitting the water.
Behind-the-scenes in the Indian Air Force.
The film shows: aircraft in flight; a newspaper headline stating 'three Japanese planes shot down over Calcutta'; maintenance of aircraft; workshop work; class ...
An expedition goes to South America to find the papers proving the right of a jungle girl orphan to a large fortune.
In the 17th century, the notorious pirate Captain Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica, in return for which he is to rid the Caribbean of pirates and maintain the peace between England and Spain. But a traitor in his midst is ...
"Malta blitz greets new Governor."
RAF Film Unit coverage of scenes during an air raid on Malta shows the attack, and then life carrying on after the sounding of the 'all clear'. Lord Gort arrives, bringing with him ...
A ground floor room, preferably facing the garden rather than the street, is selected as a "refuge room," then simple precautions taken: removal of glass objects, taping windows and acquisition of new government steel-tube shelter, which acts as a ...
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include THE ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA STAFFORD CRIPPS RETURNS FROM INDIA SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AND GANDHI ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ENTHRONED COLONEL OF THE GRENADIERS COMMANDO: THE ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include FIGHTER SWEEPS U.S. TROOPS ON THE MOVE DOBBIE OF MALTA COMES HOME MR. CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST SOLEMN PLEDGE REDEEMED AT ADDIS ABABA BRITISH SUBMARINE SUCCESSES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include 1000 A NIGHT ONLY A START GRANT TANKS MAKE TRACKS FOR VICTORY GENERAL AUCHINLECK "ALL RED ROUTE" TO RED ARMY MALTA SHOWS GORT HOW SHE TAKES IT
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY CANADIANS CELEBRATE DOMINIONS DAY PREMIER SEES U.S. ARMY DEMONSTRATION WEST AFRICAN AERODROME AIDS WAR SUPPLIES THE MIDDLE EAST FRONT CONVOY TO MALTA
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include FROM GEORGE CROSS ISLAND EN ROUTE TO RUSSIA RESCUE AT SEA DESPATCH FROM EGYPT U.S. SAILORS VISIT LONDON NEW ARMY COOPERATION AIRCRAFT
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include BIGGEST CONVOY REACHES INDIA THE MASTER PLAN THE DAY SHIFT TAKE OVER
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MALTA CONVOY BATTLES THROUGH CHURCHILL VISITS MIDDLE EAST A ROYAL TRAGEDY NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MR. CHURCHILL WITH THE HOME GUARD BATTLE OF BRITAIN ANNIVERSARY REINFORCEMENT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST MR. WILLKIE ARRIVES IN EGYPT MR. WILLKIE MEETS ADMIRAL HARWOOD THE ISLAND FORTRESS OF ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include NEW GUINEA WAR IS A BATTLE OF SUPPLY LINES WARTIME CROWD RELAXES AT BIG SOCCER MATCH U.S. TROOPS LAND AT BRAZZAVILLE IN WEST AFRICA MACROBERT GIFT OF FIGHTERS IS NOW IN ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include INDIA QUIETENS DOWN, GETS ON WITH THE WAR MRS. ROOSEVELT IN BRITAIN PARLIAMENT ACCLAIMS FIELD MARSHAL SMUTS
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include MADAGASCAR. ON TO ANTANANARIVO CAMEL TRANSPORT IN THE DESERT MRS. ROOSEVELT SEES FOR HERSELF PRIME MINISTER AND GENERAL SMUTS AT DOVER TOUGH TACTICS CHINESE ARMY IN INDIA ...
For a detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include NEWS FROM CEYLON DESERT OFFENSIVE GETS GOING
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: PREMIER TAKES UP REINS AGAIN SOVIET VICTORIES INSPIRE ALLIES GENERAL SIKORSKI'S MEETING WITH STALIN PARADE IN RED SQUARE CONVOY BLITZES NAZI BOMBERS
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include: ABOARD THE DUKE OF YORK STIRLING BOMBER PRODUCTION NEWS FROM GIBRALTAR DUTCH DESTROYER IN PORT ON THE INDUSTRIAL FRONT
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include MORE AMERICANS LAND IN IRELAND MIDDLE EASTERN NEWS MORE UNDERGROUND FACTORIES INDIAN ARMY ENGINEERS LEASE-LEND STILL COMING FIGHTER AEROPLANE PRODUCTION
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS UNDERTAKES VITAL INDIA MISSION GERMAN PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA, AND V.C. COMES HOME CAPTIVES FROM NAZI SEA RAIDER HOME TOWN GREETS AUSSIE V.C. OUTPUT OF ...
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include RUSSIA TRAINING NEW MILLIONS AMERICA GEARED UP FOR WAR MALTA - THE ISLAND FORTRESS H.M.S. RENOWN ON LEAVE AMERICAN AMPHIBIOUS TRACTORS AMERICAN TROOPS ON ROUTE FOR AUSTRALIA ...
For detailed shotlist, contact NFTVA. Items include HOW COMMANDOS GET ST. NAZAIRE SPIRIT YUGOSLAV AIRMEN HIT BACK IN EAST SOVIET HONOURS BRITISH AIRMEN BURMA CRISIS
For detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include SUPPLY ROUTES IN THE FAR EAST INDIAN HEROES DECORATED NEWS FROM EGYPT FIGHTING THROUGH TO MALTA
For a detailed shotlist contact NFTVA. Items include MALTA RECEIVES THE GEORGE CROSS THE BOSTON BOMBER AIR RAIDS IN JAPAN ARCTIC VOYAGE SCHOOL FOR BATTLE
Unedited rushes filmed in Lagos, Takoradi and Kano (West African Convoy Route).
Airport- troops emplaning-mail/ General De Gaulle Scenes.
I. "The Promise of 1942." Survey of major political and military developments of 1942 which started inauspiciously with the loss of Singapore (peacetime views and evacuation of civilians) and ended encouragingly with success in North Africa and the ...
British newsreel covering the British retreat through Burma, an exclusive report by British Paramount cameraman Maurice Ford.
Opening titles "Burma. A War Correspondent's Despatch. Film and Story by Maurice Ford". A ...