Desert Victory Part 2

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1946

Creator: the Army Film and Photographic Unit and the Royal Air Force Production Unit

Complete Record: Produced for the British Ministry of Info. by the British Service Film Units. The story of the British Eighth Army’s smashing victory at El Alamein and its triumphant advance across the desert to Tripoli Opening Title Sequence. Soldiers in the Desert using a compass. Tanks rolling across desert. WS of Cairo. Barbwire in foreground as waves lap against shore. Tanks roll down deserted road. Man digging with shovels and picks. Men with jackhammers in desert.Two soldiers set up mortar shells. Cannons fire.Cannons fire at Airplane in sky. Airplane and cannons firing at each other. Winston Churchill visits the troops in the desert. General Alexander and General Montgomery. Lots of machinery parts moving and people working on them. Factory assembly line type images. All parts go to making planes. Tanks being built and rolling off assembly lines. Battleships in ocean. Pointer draws line around cape of Africa. Silhouette of man with axe chopping palm tree down. More planes flying in formation in sky. Gravestones with swastika and Iron Cross on them.