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Fight For Liberty, The: The Second Year Of The War Pt 3 of 4

Reel Number: 221251-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1941

Country: Canada,England,Ethiopia,Uk,United Kingdom,USA

Location: addis ababa,London

TC Begins: 13:46:47

TC Ends: 13:56:11

Duration: 00:09:24

The Fight For Liberty: The Second Year Of The War Pt 3 of 4 Troops along Suez (?) w/ fires burning on opposite side. Surrender flag on 06Feb at Bengazi. Thousands of Italian prisoners sitting. Trucks of ammunition unload in the desert; fighting against Italy at Ethiopia & other North African locations. Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa & raising flag. 13:48:48 German vehicles across floating bridges, planes take off from mountain fields. View of Nazi planes dropping bombs in Balkan Campaign. German tanks moving ahead in desert situation. Across North Africa. 13:49:56 Canadian war industries & heavy machinery. Men & women building planes. Plane out of hanger. Small troop carriers out of factory; ships built & launched; tanks out of factory. 25 lb. field gun. MacKenzie King meets FDR at Hyde Park. Large ships launched. Liberty ships? Large planes taking off from factory. 13:52:14 FDR speaking to Congress (MOS) about aid to British Commonwealth. American bombers delivered to Britain. Crated planes trucked to ships. Shells in crates. Planes & tanks loaded onto freighters. Canadian freight trains carrying grain for shipment to Britain. Ingots loaded on shipboard. Canadian sailors, ships w/ planes on decks. Good convoy shot. 13:55:00 Bismarck launched. Hitler present. Submarines launched. Smaller faster ships thru heavy seas, many U-boats. Convoys on Atlantic. German ships firing & sinking ship. Sailors watch. WWII Allied Alliances; Battles; Canadian Homefront; American Homefront;

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