Description: I. "American Landing on Guam": American marines recapture Guam from the Japanese. Japanese planes shot down. Amphibious tanks effect a landing under heavy bombardment.
II. "Spending A Wartime Holiday": Britons avoid unnecessary travel at Easter, enjoying home-town entertainments, eg the fair on Hampstead Heath.
III. "Czechoslovak-Soviet Pact Signed in Moscow": a treaty of mutual assistance is signed by the Czech ambassador to Moscow and by People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Molotov. Marshal Stalin presides.
IV. "Assault on Hitler's War machine": RAF bomb important railheads, factories (at night), and power stations (by day) in Occupied Europe.
V. "Russian Victory": The Red Army invades Crimea. General Tolbukhin's troops attack from Perekop, General Eremenko's maritime forces from Kerch. Heavy bombardment batters the port of Sebastopol. The Red Army liberates the town.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 374
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1944
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Stalin, Josef (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: 1135 ft; Running time: 13 mins
