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Title:THE EIGHTH ARMY IN THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 293/1-5
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Activity during the advance of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Description: Entry of British troops into Mersa Matruh. A captured German 88mm gun and entry into Agadabia. Transport on road in Mersa Matruh. Sailors looking at the dwellings and scribbling on the walls. A captured German 88mm gun. Views of Agadabia. A burning German plane.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
McArdle, T P (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Agedabia, Libya (geography)
Mersa Matruh, Egypt (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)