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British Royal family visits Cape Town, South Africa, in the first visit to South Africa by a reigning British monarch
A newsreel titled 'Royal family arrives in South Africa' shows the British Royal family being welcomed by Prime Minister Jan Smuts in Cape Town. The Royal family consisting of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth II moves across the city in a motorcade, as the people cheer them on. They attend a garden party where nearly five thousand people are gathered to pay respects to them. Queen Elizabeth wears a hat that features ostrich feathers; other women present wear grand hats and carry parasols, influenced by the Queen's fashions.
Civilian residents in North Africa being inoculated and various other measures taken to control plague in North Africa (WW2)
A U.S. Navy training film about the prevention and cure of plague in North Africa during World War II. Native residents in Libya being dusted with DDT ( Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) powdered chemical to prevent spread of plague. People are lined up to get inoculated against the plague causing bacteria. Medical staff administering vaccination shots. Passports being issued to native residents for movement in and out of control area. Papers being checked by soldiers at a railroad station. Magic charms used by locals in attempt to cure plague. Places of amusement such as a Theatre with sign "Rialto" get closed for the residents to prevent the spread of plague. Thatch hut house of a plague victim being pushed to the ground and set on fire to eliminate plague. Commanding officer and a medical officer confer about the ways and means to prevent the spread of plague. Hands of a man disassembling a rat nest and moving baby rats aside. A adult rat moves along a high wire line. A poster about the prevention of plague through DDT.
Jan Christian Smuts of the Union of South Africa in Tunis, North Africa.
Tunis, North Africa. Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, General Sir Harold Alexander and General Dwight D Eisenhower step down from the stairs of Eisenhower Villa Headquarter. Three of them standing in their army uniform engaged in a discussion.
German troops and equipment are transported and German bombers bomb a British supply dump in Africa during World War II.
The German Army attacks British positions in Africa during World War II. Japanese officers deplane at a German strip in Sicily, Italy. Officers greet each other. Troops and equipment loaded into German Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft. The transport aircraft fly troops reinforcements to Axis forces in North Africa. Troops in the aircraft. Aerial view of a field as the aircraft approach for landing. A soldier looks out of an aircraft. The aircraft stationed on the field. Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring inspects German air units. German bombers including Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers escorted by Italian fighters take off. The aircraft in flight. They bomb a British supply dump. Junkers Ju 87s dive and bomb the target at Tobruk.
King George VI of Britain reviews United States 5th Army in Africa during World War 2
King George VI reviews American troops in Africa. King George VI of Britain and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark ride in scout car as the King reviews the United States 5th Army troops in North Africa. King George along with his Minister of War, and American officers Lieutenant General Clark and Lieutenant General George Patton, have lunch in a park. King reviews a parade of 5th Army troops.
Officers of Axis Powers confer at Staff Headquarters of combined German and Italian tank force in Africa during World War II.
German troops battle the enemy in Africa during World War II. Vehicles and troops of German motorized reconnaissance detachment move across a desert in Africa. German soldiers find tire tracks and identify them as enemy tracks by measurements. Troops and vehicles stop at a village. Villagers greet German troops. A German officer bandages a child. German Field Marshal and Commander of Afrika Korps Erwin Rommel, German General Albert Kesselring and other German officials meet Italian Military Commander Ugo Cavallero and other Italian military officials at Staff Headquarters of combined German and Italian tank force. Rommel confers with Cavallero. A German anti-aircraft gun fires against British airplanes laying a bomb-carpet. British airplanes bomb dwellings. A British airplane is downed. A British tank attack is warded off by German artillery fire.
