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Tumultuous welcome for Italian Monarch and Queen Helena. King Fuad greets royal guests, on holiday visit.
First Battalion, Scots Guard arrive for service in Egypt.
Includes: Picking up survivors when Polish destroyer was sunk. Massing of huge allied fleet at Alexandria.
British and French warships at anchor in Alexandria harbour.
Co-operating with Wavell’s army, Fleet pounds Italian base. Huge numbers of prisoners pours into Egypt.
Italian prisoners in their compounds in the desert after their capture at Cape Matapan. Return of our warships to Alexandria, including the "Warspite" with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham on board.
Four hundred persons are killed in air blitz on Alexandria.
Indiscriminate bombing of Alexandria’s market places and residential areas result in over 400 casualties and some 40,000 made homeless.
As the sun sets RAF pilots get ready for work - night work. When the alarm sounds, off they go in their Hurricanes to meet the enemy. At dawn the night fighters come home.
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