A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. British soldiers stand besides a gully. Barbed wires in the gully. A tank rolls down in the gully. 200 lb Carrot is fired in the gully. Smoke rises due to fire. The tank moves in the gully. Soldiers and officer stand on either side of the gully as they watch the tank moving in the gully. Barbed wires in the foreground. The tanks move from the obstacles and barbed wires in the gully. 200 lb Carrot is fired against Mk. 1V. mines. Soldiers stand in a group. 80 feet wide and 80 feet deep holes in the ground.
A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A British soldier in prone position fires 6 strand Cortex by Schermuly pistol. British officers and soldiers stand in the background and look at the soldier firing.
A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A wire cutting grapnel is fired by 5 inched C.W. rocket. A rocket in between the barbed wires. The rocket is fired. Fire flakes in sky. A British soldier and a tank in the background. An area on a beach covered with barbed wires. An officer and a soldier stand near the area. A sea in the background.
A British film which demonstrates the use of various equipment against beach obstacles during World War II in Great Britain. A boat underway in water. The boat approaches a pole in the water. Mountains in the background. Percussion pole charge is fired against underwater obstacles. Water splashes due to firing. The boat passes through a splash of water.
Preview of pre-invasion maneuvers in Great Britain during World War II, less than 2 months before the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces. Men accumulate tons of supplies and motor cars are lined up. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal air Force Arthur William Tedder and British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have been accumulated. Photographers take photos. They join the troops who engage in mass maneuvers. View of a British soldier loading and firing a British spigot mortar type 35 pound anti tank PIAT gun (Projector, Infantry, Anti tank), new machine guns spit into action from tanks and masses of tanks give off salvos of artillery fire. A huge formations of transport planes in flight as hundreds of paratroopers descend on ground.
Opening slate of this film reads" Churchill Defeated." It goes on to show Winston Churchill attending his last meeting with wartime allied leaders at Podsdam, Germany in July, 1945. He shakes hands with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. His replacement, Clement Attlee who is also there. View from above of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin greeting the new British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who is accompanied by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. President Harry Truman, accompanied by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The wartime leaders gather around a large round table. Closeup of Marshal Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Closeup of U.S. President Harry S. Truman at the conference table. View from above of the principals at the table. Film shifts to scenes of Major Attlee campaigning for votes. People in street listening to Ernest Bevin campaigning. Views of Winston Churchill being given a hearty farewell by a crowd, as he rides through on an open vehicle. Closeups of him he picks up a microphone to address the throng. Scene shifts to views of British voters casting their ballots. King George VI strolls with new Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill. He poses with the new Prime Minister (Attlee) and Ernest Bevin on his right. At his left is Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Closeups of Clement Attlee.
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