Description: WAR PICTORIAL NEWS WAR PICTORIAL NEWS 1943 NEWSREELS DVD VIDEO DISK War Pictorial News produced newsreels from 1943 through 1945. Most were 8 to 9 minutes long each. Here we offer these newsreels from 1943. There are 11 newsreels in this collection. Over an hour and a half of enjoyment. See below for synopsis for each. Chapter 1 On the Brit. counteroffensive in Libya following Rommel's futile attempt to break through at El Alamein. Brit. tanks cross a desert area; wounded tankmen are given first aid and placed on ambulances. U.S. B-24's bomb Tripoli as Brit. armor advances. Brit. planes strafe retreating Ger. units and Ger. ships attempting to land reinforcements and supplies. Ger. POW's are marched to the rear. Shows Ital. POW's and Arab natives as Brit. forces enter Tripoli. Gen. Montgomery receives the surrender of the city from its Ital. mayor. Brit. tanks are massed in the square, the Brit. flag is raised, and Gen. Montgomery rides in a motorcade through the city. Chapter 2 Part 1 (Russia), Russ. tanks and inf. advance. A Ger. tank is hit and its crew removed. Partisans creep through woods, detonate a bridge, advance into a German-occupied village, strip arms from dead Gers., and hear a commissar's speech. A collaborator is shot as civilians cheer. Village youths march off to join the Army. Part 2 (New Guinea), natives carry wounded as Australian inf. wade a jungle stream. U.S. jeeps move over jungle roads. Supplies are dropped to the inf. from C-47's. The inf. clean their weapons and advance into the jungle. Part 3, Turkish Pres. Inonu greets P.M. Churchill and Anthony Eden as they deplane in Ankara. The group confers in a railway coach. Chapter 3 Part 1, Brit. bombers skim over the English Channel at night, bomb Ger. installations, and return to Eng. Some of the bombers crash land. Part 2, Australian troops advance through New Guinea jungle near Milne Bay. Transport planes drop supplies to the column. Artillery is fired. Shows partially demolished Japanese midget tanks and landing barges, and Japanese equipment captured intact. Part 3, Arab chieftains swear allegiance in N. Africa to Free French forces. Brit. artillery fires on Ger. desert positions. U.S. tanks, followed by inf., move up. Free French and U.S. officers review Fr. colonial troops. The populace cheers as an Arab sultan marches from a desert fort. Chapter 4 Part 1, armor of the Brit. 8th Army crosses the Libyan border into Tunisia, and rolls through the streets of a Tunisian city. Part 2 shows training maneuvers of Brit. paratroops and glider troops. Part 3, Haile Selassie reviews inf. and pack mules of the British-trained Ethiopian Army. Light mountain howitzers are fired. Part 4, on the Union of S. Africa's contribution to the Brit. war effort: S. African naval cadets tie knots and row boats. Coastal guns are fired during a defense drill. Motor torpedo boats maneuver at sea. Shows a convoy at sea and S. African troops debarking at a port. Chapter 5 On the fighting in and around Stalingrad. Russ. inf. move through the ruins of the city; artillery is fired from its outskirts. Russ. inf. charge forward passing Ger. dead lying in the snow. Russ. Gens. Rokossovski and Voronov observe the action. Russ. artillery and machine guns are fired point blank into ruined buildings; Gers. file out to surrender. Shows Ger. dead, closeups of Romanian Gen. Dimitru and Ger. Gens. von Paulus and Schmidt, and panoramic views of masses of Ger. POW's being marched to the rear. Chapter 6 On the battle for Tunisia. Shows an Allied convoy at sea; troops, trucks, tanks, and materiel being unloaded at a N. African port; and naval antiaircraft driving off Ger. planes. Roads are repaired and Ger. POW's marched to the rear. Allied soldiers mingle with civilians in rubbled Gabes. Brit. armor rolls through El Hamma. Gens. Alexander and Montgomery confer with Air Marshal Broadhurst. "Spitfires" take off; a Ger. installation is bombed. Brit. troops repair a captured airstrip. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery shake hands. Tanks advance; artillery and mortars are fired. Brit. paratroops debark from transports. Fighter planes land on an airstrip. Chapter 7 Part 1 shows Brit. antitank guns mounted on "Hurricane" fighter planes. The planes take off and strafe Ger. tanks in N. Africa. Part 2, Allied troops in Cairo, Egypt are entertained by magicians, jugglers, and an excursion along the Nile at a party given by Premier Nahas Pasha. Part 3, shows women working in machine shops in the Middle East. Part 4, Air Marshal Tedder deplanes in Malta and is greeted by Viscount Gort. Transports are unloaded in Maletta harbor, peasants work in the fields, and U.S. sailors inspect ruins on the island and fraternize with children. Part 5 shows RAF pilots who downed the service's 1,000th enemy aircraft. Chapter 8 Part 1, King George VI is driven through the streets of Tunis; inspects a captured Ger. tank; talks to Gens. Clark and Patton; inspects troops; rides with Gen. Montgomery in an armored car; knights Mr. Marshall Linnell; meets Viscount Gort on Malta; and rides through streets on the island. Part 2, sailors aboard Brit. destroyers observe Pantelleria; Gen. Eisenhower and Brit. Adm. Cunningham confer aboard a cruiser. B-17's and Lancaster bombers bomb the island; naval guns are fired; prisoners emerge from debris and surrender to Brit. troops. Sentries patrol the beaches; prisoners are massed in a field; tanks move through streets on the island. Chapter 9 On the invasion of Sicily. A Brit. convoy, including transports, cruisers, destroyers, and other vessels, moves toward the island. Soldiers are transferred from ship to ship by breeches buoy. Troops bathe, repair shoes, and man battle stations. Transport planes, loaded with supplies and paratroops take off from a field in N. Africa. Allied troops land on Sicily under a naval barrage and regroup on the beach. Trucks and tanks are taken ashore. Chapter 10 Part 1, war workers and sailors and soldiers of the allied nations parade down the Mall in London; Brit. Gens. Paget and Smith review the parade. Part 2, Queen Elizabeth visits offices of an artillery training school and converses with women antiaircraft gunners. Gunners, including Mary Churchill, operate the guns. Part 3 shows Gen. Montgomery surrounded by crowds in London. Part 4, Brit. troops, tanks, and trucks go ashore on Sicily after opposition has been crushed. Troops and tanks move down a road. Chapter 11 Part 1 shows U.S. "Marauder" bombers flying in formation and bombing Ger. airfields in France. Part 2 shows wreckage of a post office in Naples after a time-bomb has exploded. Wounded U.S. soldiers receive medical treatment. Italians apply for work at the city hall. U.S. bombers take off from an airstrip in southern Italy and bomb enemy installations. Part 3, a bridge over the Volturno river is repaired and troops of the U.S. 5th Army cross it. Part 4, King George and Queen Elizabeth inspect the 4th Indian Div. at Buckingham Palace. Part 5, Churchill presents a sword to Russ. Amb. Gusev commemorating Stalingrad's liberation. Russ. civilians receive awards at Stalingrad; wreaths are placed on tombs. Part 6, Russ. troops load and fire mortars and field guns in Stalingrad; inf. advances past abandoned Ger. equipment; Ger. POW's are rounded up; and a pillbox explodes. INTRODUCE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO THE AMAZING, STIMULATING AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING WORLD OF THESE AMAZING FILMS. THESE ARE GREAT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? TOTAL RUNTIME APPROXIMATELY 98 MINUTES. NTSC. DVD. ALL REGION. DVD MENU FOR EASY ACCESS. DISK WILL AUTO START AND PLAY IN YOUR HOME DVD PLAYER. THIS IS A DVD VIDEO DISK AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. 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Movie/TV Title: War Pictorial News
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