A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Castille, a government building being used as a British delegation's official headquarters. People milling about in the foreground. A car at the entrance as officers leave the building.
Scene from 1927 feature film about World War 1. British tank crosses a battlefield under fire. It is a Mk V tank with dummy guns fitted to simulate a fighting tank. British troops sheltering in a shell-hole recognize it as friendly and follow it towards enemy lines, where it rides over the parapet of a German trench and crushes a machine-gun position. (The tank is an anachronism; the Mark V did not enter service until 1918.)
Scene from British postwar film, circa 1927, shot on the Salisbury Plain, in England. It reconstructs World War 1 events from 1916 on the Western Front. Two "German soldiers" are shown in a machine gun nest. One is shot and slumps down. The other continues to fire as a British Mk V Supply Tank ( fitted with dummy guns to simulate a fighting tank) approaches their position. The tank rolls over their position, crushing it.
Opening scene shows destroyed hangar skeleton containing parts of destroyed German aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia during World War 2. A British airman examines the propeller from a destroyed German Me 323D Transport aircraft. A wing from the aircraft is in the background. He is joined by other British airmen. Together they walk to the wreck and examine the cockpit area. View of the airfield through skeleton of another destroyed German airplane. A Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft and a B-17 Bomber are parked in the background.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall disembarking from an aircraft at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa. He salutes and is greeted by British Army Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson. Officials and military officers shaking hands and talking in the background. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden talking and laughing. Several officers in the background. Foreign Secretary Eden walking away followed by an officer.
The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with a few British naval officers aboard HMS Orion. Other ships in a harbor. Churchill and officers aboard HMS Orion salute as U.S. cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) passes. U.S. Flag and naval guns seen on the Quincy. Its crew lines the railings, at attention.
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