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Desert Victory
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keywords: wwii, north africa, al-alamein, tripoli, desert tank warfare, british general bernard montgomery, monty, british 8th army, german field marshal erwin rommel, the desert fox, german afrika korps
Synopsis: British General Montgomery began an 80-day counter-offensive that culminated in the British capture of Tripoli and Rommel's defeat in 1943. This remarkable footage was taken under brutal combat conditions. Four cameramen were killed in action, seven wounded and six others captured by the Germans...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 01:01:07
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: North Africa
Desert Victory: Reel-1
Views of the western desert where the North African Campaign was fought in WWII, hot days and bitter cold nights. Soldiers of 8th Army sleeping bundled up in blankets. Huge sand storm cloud in the distance. German forces under the Command of Rommel continue to push back the British 8th Army toward El Alamein and Alexandria. Shows German half-tracks, tanks, planes, Rommel in Scout Car advancing. Low aerial view of Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez. Using the natural terrain defenses of the Quattara Depression and the Mediterranean Sea British Field Marshall Auchinleck had his troops dig in, lay protective mines, build gun emplacements, and waited.
German artillery and German planes attacked the British 8th Army. Winston Churchill visits the 8th Army with news of re-enforcements and gave command of the British 8th Army to General Montgomery. British wartime factories, and women working in defense plants and factories. In the United States the Sherman tank with it's 75 MM gun was coming off assembly lines. Shows large tank manufacturing defense plant. Shows RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft being removed from shipping crates in Nigeria. The Hurricanes are re-assembled. Shows Hurricane fighter taking-off from newly constructed airfield after assembly and in-flight to provide air support to British Eighth Army.
Desert Victory: Reel-2
Rommel looking through field glasses toward front lines of British 8th Army at El Alamein.. Shows burning and destroyed German tanks, artillery pieces, bodies of dead German soldiers after five days of fighting. Shows several German crosses with helmets, one German helmet with bullet hole in side, on top of cross marking grave. 8th Army soldiers in trenches or gun emplacements. Shows supplies and men arriving in middle east ports to re-enforce the British 8th Army face Rommel at El Alamein. Shows long line of trucks moving supplies.
Planes of the British Air Force and British submarines attack German supply ships. Shows interior of British submarine, Commander at periscope, periscope view of German ship, torpedo fired, explosion as torpedo strikes German ship. Shows strength, agility, hand-to-hand combat training of new recruits for British 8th Army. Map shows position of Rommel's Axis Forces of German and Italian divisions facing the Allied Forces of the 8th Army composed of solders from Britain, Australia, South African, India, New Zealand, Free French, and others. Rommel and Hitler together in Berlin where Rommel receives Baton of Field Marshall from Hitler. Map shows and explains Rommel battle plan. Shows General Alexander, Admiral Harwood, British Air Marshall Tedder, planned the joint operation of El Alamein. Shows General Montgomery and Vice Air Marshall Cunningham at a desert position.
Desert Victory: Reel-3
British 8th Army faces Rommel's German Army at El Alamein. General Montgomery discussing battle plan with his officers that relayed the plan down through the ranks so each soldier knew the objective. Final preparations for the second battle of El Alamein, code name Operation Lightfoot. Bombs loaded on planes, shells onto the new S tanks, belts of ammunition on fighter planes. Shows soldiers enjoying a brief period of quite desert life listening to soldier playing a tune on Scottish bagpipe. Shows the sappers or combat engineers preparing to move forward to clear mine fields to be marked by white tape.
The second battle of El Alamein begin in the evening with orders for all artillery batteries to "fire". Flashes of artillery fire at night. Sappers move forward to clear paths through the German mine fields. German mine located and dug up. White marker tape marks path cleared of mines. Soldier is shot, another soldier quickly takes his place. Infantry fix bayonets to rifles and move up. Silhouettes of soldiers moving into battle, bagpipe player marches into battle with soldiers, soldiers overrun and capture German soldiers.
Desert Victory: Reel-4
Shows battlefield scenes after first night of battle in the second battle of El Alamein. Shows British 8th infantry, planes, and tanks working as one pushing Rommel's Germany Army back. Close-up of allied tanks. Shows 8th Army infantry charges out of trenches just behind artillery barrage. Shows communications post, artillery firing, infantry charging with fixed bayonets. Gun camera footage of aerial dog fight between British Air Force and German Luftwaffe. Spitfires strafe ground targets. Assault on Kidney Ridge by infantry, tanks, and armored cars.
Gun crew firing machine gun. Shows soldiers using bayonets to search for mines. Intense desert combat and warfare. 8th Army soldier stops to tend to wounded German soldier. Shows long line of captured German prisoners. Medical aid station tending to wounded, both Allied and German soldiers. Shows bodies of dead soldiers and captured German soldiers.
Desert Victory: Reel-5
Shows Rommel studying map. Rommel makes a defenses movement of troops in the second battle of El Alamein moving troops from the south as shown on animated map. Pilots of the British Air Force scramble to man planes and attack troop movement. Planes takes off from desert runway. Shows bombing attack on German tanks and infantry. Shows tanks and infantry of 8th Army striking into the German front lines, tanks firing, artillery firing, machine gun crew firing, infantry charging. Soldiers firing rifles using tank as a shield.
Hundreds of tanks in battle advancing across the desert as Rommel's German Army retreats. Shows burning and destroyed German tanks and equipment littering the battlefield. British Air Force bomb Rommel's retreating Army.
Desert Victory: Reel-6
Image of the Big Ben clock tower in London. Shows British women war workers cheering as BBC announces the Axis forces in the western desert is in full retreat after 12-days and nights of fighting. Shows destroyed and captured German equipment and aircraft as the Allied forces continued to pursue the retreating German Army in the western desert. Shows capture of five Italian Divisions in the south and thousands of Germans captured in the north including Commander of the Afrika Korp, Leader of the German Parachute Unit.
Shows planes strafing and bombing retreating German forces. Advance was slowed first by rain and then mines and other road obstructions placed by the Germans. Allied Forces reach and re-occupy Tobruk. Allied Forces enter Bengasi. Scenes of damage and sunken ships in harbor at Bengasi Libya. Montgomery and his 8th Army fighting on the outskirts of Tripoli, Montgomery accepts surrender of Tripoli. Military parade, Montgomery rides standing in open car, British flag is raised, Churchill salutes as 8th Army soldiers pass in review.
