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General Sir William Slim cross a ponton bridge to the other side of Irrawaddy River and inspect troops in Burma.
Commander of British 14th Army Lt General Sir William Slim visits British Indian Army 19th Infantry Division Beachhead in Kwauk-Myaung Area, Burma during World War II. Lt General Slim, Commander of 14th Army and British Indian Army Major General Thomas Wynford Rees walk down a road. They cross a ponton bridge to the other side of Irrawaddy River. General Slim and Ress with the soldiers on a boat underway in the river. General slim looks into some documents. General Slim inspects the troops. The troops are of the 62nd Brigade Headquarters and includes Sikhs, Punjabs, Rajputs, Assames, Gurkhas and British Infantrymen.
People face drought, rations, closed factories and black marketeers during post-war period in Europe and UK.
A documentary depicts life of people in the post-war ( World War II) economic challenges and hard times in Europe and the United Kingdom. (Before Marshall Plan of 1948). Animated map of Western Europe. Ruins and debris of buildings in cities of Europe damaged during the war.Two women walk past rubble. The damaged buildings. People cross a damaged bridge. A man at work during the construction of a bridge. Men make boats. Smoke comes out from a factory. In the Netherlands, a man in a textile factory works with weaving machinery. Another man paints a machine part. Men at work in the factory. A man and a woman eat food. A French farmer plows a field with the help of two horses. Scene in Norway of boats in a harbor. Norwegian fishermen at a dock. A fisherman untangles a fishing net. People buy food from shops. They walk on a street. People wait in a line for bread ration because of drought of 1947. Loaves of bread on display in store window. A coal processing plant exterior. A small steam locomotive moves on tracks at the factory yard. Close up view of two British coal miners with black soot on faces and bodies as they dig out coal from a mine using a pick axe. Queue of British citizens walk in a line to get coal. A man distributes equal amounts of coal to the British men and women in the queue, who receive a coal ration loaded into a bag. A power plant. A man operates factory controls (controls made in Liverpool), reducing output to lower levels due to power rationing. Different machines at work. View of a large industrial cog wheel slowing to a stop, and a large compressor in a factory slows to a stop. A view of a city. People walk in a street. British men and women enter a food shop in England, with a sign at the doorway indicating that bread is being offered only by ration. A woman feeds hens in a yard. A farmer negotiates with another farmer to sell livestock, but he shakes his head to refuse the offer. People in a city purchase food and other goods in a black market. A woman buying food from a black market seller. She hands him a pile of cash bills in payment. Italian women picking olives beneath olive trees in grove in Italy. A man enters a food shop and speaks to a woman; the shelves in the store are almost empty. A railroad train freight car moves on tracks. A railway freight car factory in Belgium. Men at work in the factory. A man checks a line of completed rail car wheels in the factory. Freight cars lie unused in the factory yard as French customers cannot buy them since the company in Belgium will not accept French Francs in payment. An unemployed Italian man sitting on a wall collects cigarette butts. Weavers in Holland dig in a peet bog as that their weaving jobs are not available.
Allied Operation Jubilee offensive against Dieppe, France, during World War II.
Allied Operation Jubilee, the assault against Dieppe, France, during World War Two. A sign reads 'Dieppe'. Fighter aircraft diving down across a harbor area. German anti-aircraft guns are fired from fortified positions behind barbed wire. Explosion of a gas tank in the dock area. German defenders, in grass above beachhead, firing rifles and artillery pieces. Wrecked British Churchill tanks on Dieppe beach. Wrecked tanks and a landing craft along a shore. Dead bodies on the beach. German soldiers sitting abandoned craft in the water. The streets of Dieppe, France showing captured British soldiers being marched down a street escorted by German soldiers. A wounded English soldier being carried down a street by four other English soldiers. The wounded soldier with his left eye covered with blood. Other British casualties entering the town. Surrendering British soldiers being escorted up a country road. The coastline of Dieppe. City population going about their business. Men, women and children walking in a street. German coastal guns being erected. Various types of guns and their mountings, camouflaged gun positions, guns being raised into firing position. Coastal gun barrels. A German motor train moving through a street of Germany. A large half-track vehicle towing a string of trucks through a street. A ship plowing through a heavy sea. A large submarine fleet underway at sea. The guns of a battleship are fired. A Higgins boat going through water towards a coastline. Marines aboard the Higgins boat approaching the shore. A coastline showing invasion troops hitting the shore.
Allied Naval task forces combine efforts in Battle of Okinawa during World War II
Roles of U.S. Navy Task Force 58 and British Task Force 57 during the Battle of Okinawa in World War 2. An LCI (Landing Craft-Infantry) passes in front of the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45) as it fires its heavy guns. Explosions on Okinawa. Glimpse of Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in marine camouflage paint. Naval gun barrels firing and shells exploding on Okinawa. The USS LSM(R)-190, a Landing Ship Medium (Rocket) is seen firing barrages of rockets at Okinawa. Closeup of the rocket pods firing. At time 00:18-00:20 the U.S. heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis,CA-36 is seen firing her main battery. Numerous views of shells bursting on the ground. More views of rocket firing landing ships, with more closeups of the rocket pods firing. Change of scene to the south, where the battleship HMS King George V, flagship of Task Force 57, and battleship HMS Howe, are seen bombarding Japanese air installations on Formosa. British Navy Marlett fighter planes (equivalent to U.S. F4Fs) in formation flight. Anti-aircraft gunfire from British aircraft carriers and other warships. Closeup of British multiple Pom Pom gun batteries firing.
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.
German and Allied forces battle in North Africa; Italians surrender to Montgomery in Tripoli.
Allied troops arrive in Tunisia during Operation Torch of World War II. German aircraft and Allied aircraft engaged in dogfights. Explosions and scenes of aircraft crashing to the ground. Soldiers watch the aircraft through binoculars. Battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943: Allied tank destroyers blast German tanks "at point blank range" according to narrator, who also notes it was the German's first real battle with American troops. German prisoners of war being marched by Allied soldiers. British troops in Tripoli, Libya in January 1943. Elevated view shows Capitoline Wolf statue in Tripoli with British armor parked below. British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery receives surrender of Italian officials. British General Montgomery seated in a jeep passing through the city. People applaud.
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