Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942. Map depicts Kidney Ridge taken over by 7th Armored Division. Troops fire artillery. Smoke arising from explosions by enemy. British troops and tanks advance. Humber armored car on mountain after taking over Kidney Ridge. Australian troops advance toward German positions near sea. Artillery is fired. Explosions throw billows of smoke. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel instructs his men. German prisoners' area captured. Ambulance arrives for wounded soldiers. Wounded soldiers taken to ambulance on litters. Wounded are treated. Captured Nazi soldiers. (World War II period).
Potsdam Conference in Germany. U.S. President Harry S Truman, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin pose for photographers in conference room. Officials stand on side and in the background. Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest J Bevin sit down at the conference table. Big Three greet each other and shake hands with other officials at the conference.
Potsdam Conference in Germany. Military Police guards 'Little White House'. Prime Minister of UK, Clement Attlee inspects British Honor Guard at Premier's Palace. Attlee poses for photographers at entrance of building then enters
Events during World War I. Army officers of Allied Powers on field talk together and pose. Russian officers and a French and a British officer are seen.
Artillery demonstrations at British Army Royal School of Artillery, Larkhill, on the south edge of Salisbury, England. Gun crews ride in Light Dragon MkII tractors towing 18 pounder field artillery pieces. They wheel about and set up a long battery of artillery that begins firing. Military spectators line the field to watch the demonstrations. Autogyro used for observation lands behind a smoke source. Troops begin firing trench mortars. Tanks race at hight speed through smoke on the demonstration field. Battery of 4.5 inch howitzers seen firing. As the demonstration concludes, MkII tractors tow 4.5 inch howitzers away as spectators disperse.
British General G.B.O. Taylor and the Director of German bomb disposal, observe troops engaged in recovery actions following bombings during the London Blitz. Troops stand on rubble. Men clear debris along side of road. Men work near damaged building. Troops work with communication wires.
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