| LIBYA OFFENSIVE - CONTINUED Item showing the British army advancing through Libya and rounding up Axis prisoners. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5565 |
| Catalog #: | 59275 | |
| Clip Number: | 59275-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 42/5 | |
| Timecode: | 01:37:05 - 01:41:30 | |
| Location: | Libya | |
| Year Shot: | 1942 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Hospitals LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Libya MILITARY: Army, British MILITARY: Army, Italian TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military WEAPONS: Guns, Anti-aircraft WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Aviation WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Medical WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: POWs, Axis Troops WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Weapons | |
| Description: | LIBYA OFFENSIVE - CONTINUED Item showing the British army advancing through Libya and rounding up Axis prisoners. Libya L/S of low level bombing raid by German planes near Bardia. Planes fly overhead and anti-aircraft guns fire. Various shots at a desert airport showing the wrecks of Nazi aircraft. General view of Tobruk Harbor with sunken ships in the foreground. Numerous captured Italian field guns are lined up. Italian prisoners are searched and then given food. They sit looking dejected in barbed wire pens. After a desert rainstorm army camps and tents are flooded. Several shots of soldiers trying to rescue belongings and crockery. C/U of Pathe cameraman Terry Ashwood cleaning his camera. M/S of Italian prisoners at work repairing the desert road. Various shots of Indian troops entering Derna. They search houses for any remaining enemy soldiers. Several shots of German and Italian wrecked planes on Derna aerodrome. Various shots of wounded British soldiers in the captured Italian hospital. More shots of wrecked German equipment as we advance across the desert. Indian troops march into Berta. Several shots of long lines of German and Italian prisoners of war. Commentator says "North Africa won't be clean until the whole tribes of Huns and Wops have been driven out - or better, wiped out!" End titles. | |
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