Bases of Victory

Series

Series Name

Warwork News

Issue

Issue No.

S15/58

Paramount Issue No.

1420

Date Released

9 Oct 1944

Released by Paramount

9 Oct 1944

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Bases of Victory
2. 2The Other Man’s Job: British Flame Thrower is Master Weapon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Control of the Channel reverts to Britain - RAF Beaufighters and Mosquitos bomb enemy ships, and attack Nazi military installations in Holland. Calais is reduced to smoking ruins, and Nazis are captured. Brest (German U-boat centre, and chief target of RAF) surrenders. 35,000 German prisoners taken. The "12,000 lb earthquake of 1944" bombs Nazis out of their concrete stronghold, where troops and arms were stored.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Weapons; Aviation; Prisoners of war; Navy; Military

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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