Description: I. "Japanese Convoy Destroyed": 22 Japanese ships are destroyed and sunk in the Bismarck Sea by Americans and Australians of General MacArthur's Far Eastern Command.
II. "Soviet Offensive": The Red Army retakes Rzhev and presses onwards towards Stalingrad. Nazis are killed or captured. The Red Army then proceeds north to Leningrad, where German prisoners are seen being marched into the city.
III. "Roving Camera Reports": An instructional sequence warns against the methods of fifth columnists in Britain. American artillerymen unload mules from a train in the USA. Winter sports in Paris.
IV. "Berlin's Anniversary": The RAF bomb while Hitler speaks (very short-badly cut).
V. "North African Front": scenes in Libya and Tunisia. The RAF fly over the 8th Army at a place nicknamed "Marble Arch". Scenes of Christmas in the desert.
VI. "Naples Bombed": scenes of damage to the quay and ships.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 457
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1943-12
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
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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: 1199 ft; Running time: 13 mins
