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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300278
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1940
Country: Algeria,China,Denmark,England,Germany,Hungary,Italy,Libya,United Kingdom
Location: Bengasi,Benghazi,Budapest,Chungking,Copenhagen,el,kebir,Mers,North Africa,Oran
TC Begins: 01:00:10
TC Ends: 01:09:33
Duration: 00:09:23
WWII - 1940/41, Italy: Libya Fighting; Danish King; Budapest Military Ceremony; Chungking Bombed; Sinking French Fleet, Algeria; Battle of Britain Titles. 01:00:28 Bengasi, Libya North Africa. Fighter aircraft parked; motorcycles, trucks & armored cars along road. German tanks roll forward past camels w/ Arabs watching, MCU daytime & dusk. Motorcycles & vehicles crossing desert roads. Artillery set up behind sandbags. 01:02:05 Pilots, Italian biplanes take off from a Libyan airfield in dust cloud; patrolling barbed wire barrier; motorcycle column on highway. German staff car leading column of trucks,etc & welcomed. 01:02:54 German fighter planes strafe British positions in Libya. 01:03:25 King Christian of Denmark rides horseback thru the streets of Copenhagen, people cheering. Poses on balcony w/ Queen . Crowd filling street from above. 01:03:53 Admiral Horthy & other high officials / VIPS present at military review & ceremony in Budapest, Hungary. 01:04:32 Japanese planes, air to air, bomb Chungking, China, aerials of explosions along Yangze river bank. Chinese firemen battle flames in blazing ruins of the city. 01:05:19 British warships bombard & sink many Vichy French naval units at Oran, Algeria. Officers in white uniforms read HMS Foxhound demand from James Somerville for surrender of Battleship Dunkerque. Sailors run, bombs explode on / near ship. Sinking. Whaleboats on water amidst debris. Wreckage of ships. 01:07:52 German bombers engage intercepting British fighter planes in dogfights over England, shoot down several English planes. Good interiors of German bombers, pilots, gunners firing machine guns. 01:09:28 The End. Battles; WW2 fighting; Propaganda; Italian Newsreel; 1940; 1941; Battle of Britain; Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: In our experience German Nazi material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.