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Know Your Ally Britain Reel-2

Public Domain Stock Footage Know Your Ally Britain Reel-2

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keywords: wwii, lend lease program, north africa campaign, desert fox irwin rommel, afrika corps

Synopsis: After a series of defeats, the Allies through the help of American industrial might go on the offensive in North Africa defeating the "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Corps...(read more)

  • Date: 1930's-1940's
  • Duration: 00:09:38
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: North Africa

Know Your Ally Britain Reel-2

Know Your Ally Britain - Reel 2

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R2:00:00:00:12

Mourners following an English British horse-drawn Hearst with damaged building in BG.

British men and women at work in war factories. Names of the defeats Britain endured in 1940 and 1941, Dunkirk, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Burma. Britain goes on the offensive as bombers take to the air. RAF Spitfires strafing enemy ships. RAF planes bombing the major cities of Germany.

R2:00:02:28:16

British troops fight in North Africa. British Infantry, artillery and tank battles in North Africa as the British take El Alamein, Matruh, Sidi Barrani, Tripoli, Mareth, taking thousands of Italian and German soldiers prisoners POWs. Rommel and his Afrika Korps defeated in North Africa. Church bells in Britain ring out as a sign of victory in North Africa. Silhouette of two British Air Raid Wardens looking out over the English Channel late evening.

R2:00:05:17:01

CU image of Adolf Hitler speaking. Several scenes of the German Ministry of propaganda at work trying to divide the Allies. Scenes of the difference between British traffic rules, Sign Reads You Are In Britain Drive Left. Compares American baseball to British Cricket, American coffee to English coffee. American soldiers listening to a radio in Britain. Scenes that depict legislative processes in the U.S. and Britain as wells as freedom of the press, religion and speech.

Statue of George Washington in the heart of London England and of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square.