Film about guerrilla war for independence fought between Commonwealth armed forces and Malayan Communist Party in Malaysia. Bombs being carried on tow dollies to load into RAF aircraft. Royal Air Force personnel load bombs in bomb bay of Avro Type 694 Lincoln bombers. Two bombs on a tow dolly. An officer studies a map. British High Commissioner in Malaya Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney disembarks an aircraft. He is greeted by officers. Aerial view of houses of Chinese people. A truck, loaded with soldiers, being driven. People leave their houses. A soldier gives food to children. People load belongings onto a truck. Trucks driven off. Men row a house boat. Houses in a farm. People build houses. Men make fences. Troops guard near fence. Farmers work on a field. A man instructs farmers. Men remove soil with a shovel. A sign reads 'Dispensary'. A nurse gives medicine to people. A doctor examines a child. A woman buys from a shop. Men cook food. People pick up containers. A man fills a container with food. He keeps container on a weighing machine. The dial on the scale shows the weight. A line of trucks being driven. People are being checked by policemen. A police woman checks women. A policeman checks boot (trunk) of a car. Troops venture through a jungle. Troops capture combatants. Troops capture ammunition and food materials. Prisoners sit on ground. Women are being checked. Officer at desk checks the identity cards.
Injured U.S. soldiers arrive in New York at end of World War 1. Men board a steamship at dock to assist in offloading injured soldiers. Men stand on gangplank. Men receive and carry injured on litters to the dock. View of USS Lagoda (SP-3250) U.S. Navy Patrol Vessel at anchor. Injured men carried from steam ship to waiting ambulances at dock side. An ambulance drives off from the dock.
British forces manning 8-inch howitzers on the Western Front in World War 1. Others firing a 155mm heavy long gun near a village in France. British gunnery Sergeant using a megaphone to relay instructions to gun crew. Firing a heavy gun at close to zero elevation. Firing 8-pouder field pieces in the midst of trenches in No-Mans land. Firing a howitzer equipped with mud flaps (girdles) on its wheels to minimize bogging down in the mud. Glimpse of German soldiers unpacking artillery shells with a 15 cm Kanone 16 in the background. A British 8-pounder firing among trenches. British infantry moving across a quiet battlefield. A British Mark IV tank moving across trenches. A British battery of howitzers firing. Closeup of gun crew firing an 8-pounder from under camouflage covering. British troops lined up in a deep reinforced trench. They climb over the top. Glimpse of two German soldiers rushing up out of a reinforced bunker. British infantry advancing across battlefield, under fire. On carries a Lewis gun and the other a rifle with fixed bayonet. Huge explosions raise black smoke as a British Mark IV tank moves in foreground. German gunners in a fortified bunker, firing a Maxim MG 08 machine gun. Closeup of machine gun. View from trench underneath, as a British tank rolls overhead. View from above shows it is a Mark V "male" tank, armed with a short 6-pounder (57-mm) Hotchkiss gun in the right sponson. British infantry running across the battlefield with smoke everywhere. A shell strikes and one soldier falls ans rolls over. . Another glimpse of German machine gunners firing. View from behind barbed wire as a British Mark V tank advances toward the camera. White smoke is punctuated by puffs of black smoke from shelling. A line of soldiers are silhouetted against light sky as they flee across a hill top. A shell striking and fire burning in a French village. Views of desolate "no man's land." British infantry, including pipers, walking across the battlefield. Stubs of trees and destroyed remains of a village. A line of British infantry leaning forward in trench behind an earthen berm. They charge over the top. One remains lying against the hill. Troops silhouetted against the sky as they move across the battlefield and down a deep ravine and up the other side.
Injured Allied troops on the Western Front during World War I. Canadian troops march in raincoats. Injured soldiers in trenches. Men carry injured on litters. Soldiers fire artillery. A loaded horse drawn wagon. Troops march in columns.
British troops fight against Germans in Europe during World War I. A German submarine underway. View of torpedo being fired from U-boat at a British ship in Atlantic Ocean or North Sea. Dramatic footage of large explosion aboard the target ship as the torpedo impacts. Fire and smoke seen on ship. Fire continues to surge upward even as ships stern is sunken and bow is rapidly approaching sinking underwater. Footage, some appears authentic and some possibly dramatized, of British sailors aboard a ship under attack and on fire. The sailors running on board the ship. View of ship rolling over and sinking.
British troops fight against Germans during World War I. Destroyers underway at sea. British flag on the destroyer ship in North Sea. Destroyers fire. Destroyers approach a harbor. Men on boat at sea. Men on destroyers give signal. A British destroyer vessel sinks. Man observes through periscope of a submarine. Men fire on another ship from a destroyer. The German ship sinks in sea. The later section of this clip illustrates the destruction of a U-boat by a British Q-ship - a merchantman with hidden armament where a submarine surfaced, a "dummy crew" abandons ship, and the naval gunners then bring out the guns and sink the U-boat
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