keywords: operation pluto, oil pipeline across english channel, allied pows held by japan, military parade in jerusalem
Synopsis: Operation Pluto Oil Pipeline Across English Channel, P.O.W.s Held By Japan Begin The Journey Home, Jerusalem Honors King George VI With A Military Parade... (read more)
Operation Pluto was the plan to lay a petroleum pipeline across the English Channel from Dungeness England to Boulogne France to fuel the Allied drive into Germany. Shows the pumping stations in England disguised as a resort and the preparation of the pipe in a factory. The British ship Conundrum starts "Operation Pluto" by laying pipe sections in the channel. Shows extension of the Channel pipeline overland into Holland. Flaming oil is used to lift the fog from an airstrip so planes could land and take-off day and night in foggy weather.
British, Chinese and Indian prisoners of war, POWs, held by the Japanese debark at a port in India, stretcher cases are carried ashore and treated by Red Cross nurses.
Field Marshall Lord Gort and other officials review a British military parade in Jerusalem honoring King George VI. RAF squadrons fly overhead, Camel Corp passes in review.
