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The British soldiers fire artillery and rifles as they advance on the battlefield in Egypt during World War II.

Activities of the British soldiers in Egypt in October 1942 during World War II. Animated map locates El Alamein and Suez. The British soldiers unload supplies from the trucks. British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery looks at the the enemy actions through binoculars. Soldiers load and fire artillery on the battlefield. Smoke due to firing. Soldiers lying in prone positions and advance on the field. Soldiers aboard tanks advance on the battlefield. British and American airplanes fly in formation overhead. They drop bombs on the target area. Pilot in the cockpit of an airplane.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063228
British King George VI speaks to United States soldiers during his visit to Tunisia, Africa.

United States Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British King George VI in Tunisia, Africa during World War II. British and United States officers fix the British and the American flag on the hood of a car. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George VI and U.S. Navy Admiral Cunningham get inside the car and drive off. U.S. sentries stand guard along a road. A huge crowd of soldiers on a beach await British King George VI 's arrival. King George speaks to U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063427
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel with German forces battling British forces in Africa during World War II.

Plans and preparations made by the Germans for the campaign in North Africa during World War II. Animated map shows the territories occupied by the Allies and the Axis powers during the war. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel along with his troops establishes new forward positions. The troops working to build a canal to transport water. A number of ships in harbor of Tobruk, Libya. German war supplies being loaded on rail cars. Camels crossing a railroad track. Rommel and Marshal Kesselring shown in discussion in North Africa. Animated map showing routes controlled by Axis forces. Scene shift to active battle footage with the British Eighth Army attacking German positions. Night battle with artillery fire. Aerial view of a formation of United States bomber aircraft in flight. They drop bombs over German positions on the ground in North Africa. Explosions on the ground with British tanks and soldiers advancing. A British soldier stands in front of signboards at a former German encampment captured by British forces. Low aerial view of convoy of German army trucks on a road, which narrator implies were captured by Allied forces. Destroyed German airplanes parked on an airfield. Captured German troops walking on a desert road, along with their General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma.

Date: 1942, October
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063438
Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force board a ship while others board trains during the Battle of France during WW2.

The BEF (British Expeditionary Force) being transported to war front in France during Battle of France of World War II. British troops march with their baggage and embark a troop transport ship at a British harbor. Another group of British soldiers waiting on a railway train station platform for the railroad train to arrive to transport them toward the war front.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064179
Three ships leaving harbors of England with British troops aboard, early in World War 2

British troops aboard 3 different troopships depart from harbors in England, United Kingdom, early in World War 2. Boats on British river. Workers transfer goods onto a ship with the help of cranes. British soldiers aboard the ship SS Bremen as the ship departs from the harbor. Next view is a low view of bow of SS Europa as it is pulling away from a port with troops on board. Last part of clip shows people at dockyard waving at troops aboard the TSMV Dorsetshire, loaded with British forces (ship also called the HM Troopship Dorsetshire, or the HMT Dorsetshire). The soldiers wave back as the ship pulls away from the docks.

Date: 1940
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064193
British PM Neville Chamberlain addresses crowd and Lord Halifax and David Lloyd George enter Parliament building in London.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain speaks to crowd in London during World War II. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain speaks over the microphone. People on the streets. Air Raid warning posters on the street put up by the police. British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and David Lloyd George, a British statesman, enter the Parliament building.

Date: 1940
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064195