Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon Gardens, fire fighters tackling an oil conflagration in the docks [either Colombo or Trincomalee, and caused by a spark from an ...
Unedited rushes.
An illustration of the role of African servicemen in the Second World War. The King's African Rifles and the Royal West African Frontier Force are seen on manoeuvres in Ceylon, the Gold Coast regiment are shown building a ferry, and the ...
Footage from the town of Imphal in ...
6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.
Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...
Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.
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Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as ...
Scenes in the interior of two Armoured Control Vehicles near Medjez El Bab.
Panning shot from a radio operator receiving a message to the operator handing the message to ...
Sir Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, visits Richard Casey and the 237 Rhodesian Squadron, RAF at El Daba. The Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Colonel Day leave ...
At Donbaik, on the Mayu penisula in the ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, ...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects ...
Troops of 10th Indian Division in Italy ...
Three-part film showing (1) a Royal Air ...
Unedited colour material shot by an official RAF cameraman of Baltimores, Bostons and Spitfires, including air to air footage and some shots of Malta.
The first sequence is of a Baltimore squadron in N Africa, ...
Amateur film without titles shot by Sergeant Leslie Brower, a signaller in the 2nd Battalion Royal Horse Artillery, records military action in the Western Desert during the Eighth Army offensive of 1942, then off-duty scenes ...
Unedited rushes. This was the largest convoy to enter Tripoli Harbour.
Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.
Troops of ...
I. "Premier home from travels." a. Capture of Tripoli (aerial view) has finally eliminated the Italian colonial Empire. Soldiers of the 8th Army are seen walking towards the town before a Union flag is hoisted. Outside the city the Vice-Governor of ...
I. "Americans blitz Renault Works." Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft take off from an airfield in Britain to bomb the Renault automobile and armaments factory at Billancourt, Paris. Target and River Seine are clearly visible from a great height. ...
I. "Jap convoy annihilated." Map of the Bismarck Sea area introduces report on the Allied destruction of a Japanese invasion force at sea off New Guinea. Reconnaissance film taken in March revealed the presence off Rabaul of a large number of ships, ...
I. "Twenty-five not out." Lieutenant General Devers, new US C-in-C in Britain, makes an address to the crew of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, the 'Memphis Belle', before they fly off to the United States where they will make a tour to ...
I. "The King with the Eighth." King George VI drives through Tripoli in a car with General Montgomery and afterwards along a road lined with troops standing to attention. During an inspection of an Indian Division the King presents a VC to a Gurkha ...
I. "RAF prang Turin." Map of Italy shows Turin's importance to the Axis powers as a railway centre for southward bound supplies. This is the target hit by British-based Lancasters in the "heaviest raid so far." Night aerial film shows blazes and ...
I. "To entertain the troops." a. Gracie Fields, back from a tour of the USA, is seen signing admirers' autograph books. b. Bob Hope, on a brief visit to Britain, entertains an Allied audience of American and British servicemen and women. Comedian ...
