Description: I. "Three-Power Conference in North Africa": Churchill calls at Malta, then proceeds to Cairo to meet President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-Shek, and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, November, 1943.
II. "Prison Ship on the Rocks": A ship carrying Germans captured at Anzio runs into trouble off the Italian coast. The prisoners are taken off, but the ship cannot be saved.
III. "The Russian Front": First film from Southern Russia. The Red Army drives the Germans from Kharkov, which welcomes Generals Zhukov and Khrushchev.
IV "Roving Camera Reports": Black-out in New York. Volcano in Mexico. Slum clearance in New York's East Side. Miss America of 1946 contest in Atlantic City.
V. "Tirpitz Blitzed": British Naval aircraft hit the German battleship in a Baltic harbour.
VI. "Pacific battlefront": Allied combined operations landing at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, against the Japs: aerial bombing, warship bombardment. The Marines land and advance through jungle towards Rabaul.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 455
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1943-11
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Chiang Kai-shek (person)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 1153 ft; Running time: 13 mins
