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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220879-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1942,1943,1940s,1944
Country: Egypt,England,Germany,Libya,North Africa,United Kingdom,USA
Location: El Alamein,North Africa
TC Begins: 13:12:26
TC Ends: 13:21:08
Duration: 00:08:42
WWII - 1940s, North Africa Documents the El Alamein campaign. Burning & wrecked German tanks & artillery, German corpses & graves left behind by Rommel’s retreating Afrika Korps. New supplies and weapons unloaded and new recruits disembark for 8th Army - North African men working at docks - Sherman tanks at harbor. New troops into train. Sign ‘Western Desert”. Convoy underway with plane escort. 13:14:33 Rommel w/ troops - German supplies arrive North Africa. The RAF bombs German supply and troop trains. Royal Navy torpedoes and sinks German ship - inside British submarine and looking through perisocpe. 13:16:25 8th Army training - General Alexander to camera explains importance of fitness - obstacle courses, tug-of-war , calisthenics and combat training. 13:17:50 Map shows strategic positions with details re divisions and tactics. 13:19:27 Rommel at press conference in Berlin, greeted by Goebbels & Hitler - Hitler awards Rommel Field Marshall baton. Generals Alexander, Air Marshall Tedder & Admiral Harwood confer re strategy. In desert, General Montgomery and Marshal Cunningham confer. WW2; 1942; 1943; Fighting; Battles; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Poor sound