Summary: Five Gaumont British News items, taken from different issues.
Description: I. "Fortresses Return to Berlin": After dropping explosives and incendiaries on Berlin, Flying Fortresses return to their bases in Britain. (Issue 1065, 20/3/1944)
II. "Home Guard Stand Down": The Home Guard make a farewell march past the King and Royal Family in London. (Issue 1140, 7/12/1944)
III. "Roving Camera Reports": USS Savannah damaged by bomb while under fire. Americans test a new Super-jeep. German rocket-guns are shown in action on the Russian Front. RAF raid an enemy convoy. (Issue unidentified)
IV. "Inside Germany Today": Captured Nazi newsreel shows Hitler's HQ after the July Bomb Plot. Hitler's hand appears to be injured when he meets Mussolini and Graziani. General Goering attends the funeral of General Korten, killed by the bomb. Hitler visits other injured officers in hospital. Shots of Goebbels and of Himmler and his Landwacht (Home Guard) later called Volkstürm. (Issue 1136, 23/11/1944)
V. "Tirpitz Sunk": The Fleet Air Arm had undertaken numerous previous attacks on Tirpitz, Germany's greatest battleship. Flashback to its 1939 launching. Now it is sunk by Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command, in Tromsö Fjord, Norway. (Issue 1135, 20/11/1944)
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 384
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
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Production Date:1944-07
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (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: 1171 ft; Running time: 13 mins
