On Three Fronts!!

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

64

Date Released

27 Jul 1942

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1On Three Fronts!!

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Transport vehicles travel via Allied supply line through Middle East en route for Russia. Vehicles are handed over to the Soviet representative at assembly depot. Behind the front, Soviet factories produce all the weapons they can to supplement Allied supply. Russian development of armoured train as effective offensive weapon. Bomber Command bombs Cologne on last night of May, 1942. Preparations for attack. Air Marshal Harris gives the command. Halifaxes, Lancasters, Stirlings, Wellingtons, Hampdens and Whitleys are loaded. The reoccupation of the Rhine Zone. Flashback to 1936 when Germans marched over the Cologne Bridge. British gunners in action at Alamein. Italian prisoners in trucks. British troops welcome the Australians sent to the front. More armour from American and British factories arrives at the front.

Keywords

Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; Railways; Industry and manufacture; Prisoners of war; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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