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Lysander of the Air / Sea Rescue Service stows a dinghy aboard and a smoke bomb to be dropped to a ditched airman. A Walrus flying boat follows and picks up the airman who by now has reached the dinghy.
Film of the sinking in November 25th 1941 of HMS Barham by a German U-boat. The ship is seen to heel over and explode and huge palls of smoke rise from the stricken ship. She sank with the loss of 859 lives.
Million and a quarter pounds worth of raw cotton which was part of the Egyptian crop purchased last year by the British government goes up in smoke at a South African port.
After a factory fire, the workers are seen chatting amongst themselves and blaming it onto saboteurs. The real reason as we see in the film is neglect by the workers when throwing away cigarette ends.
Including French troops in sandbagged positions. Bridge blown up. German prisoners under armed guard. Bombed red cross train. Burning buildings. Peasant woman rescues her pigs from blazing farm. Column of...
On the island of Bougainville in the Solomons airstrip is being made. Mechanical diggers help make flat surface then steel matting is laid for the runway base. Even before it’s ready the airfield becomes a...
British and Polish paratroops during exercise. On landing they collect their weapons from containers which were dropped with them. They advance across country through smoke screen in mock battle.
Allied merchant ships steaming through the Channel are shelled from German guns on the French coast. Destroyer escorts steam amongst the merchant ships laying a smoke screen.
Large number of German refugees evacuating towns, walking along roads, making remarks to camera, etc. The town of Aachen during attacks by British artillery, with smoke rising from the centre of the town.
Aftermath of Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, showing smoke belching from half sunken ships, the wrecked docks and the island air base.
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