The Great Offensive (1942)
Titles read: THE GREAT OFFENSIVE. Middle East. Item showing the Allied Armies advancing across the desert; Afrika Korps in retreat. Various shots of desert night barrage. Sappers with detectors clear a path through a minefield. British infantry move through the dry, dusty sand. Tanks, trucks, Bren gun carriers and motorbikes move across the desert in the advance. Light guns prepare for action. Air to air shots of RAF squadron in attendance, aerial views of the Eighth Army moving forward. Tanks move through desert with explosions going off around them. B 25 bombers in action over the desert. BBC War Correspondent Godfrey Talbot s voice is heard from a broadcast. He talks of the bombing of the retreating enemy forces. Good shot through bomb doors as bombs drop and explode in the sand below. Guns of the 8th Army in action and L, Ss of explosions in the sand. Burnt out and wrecked vehicles of the Afrika Korps litter the scene. Allied troops advance on foot through the smoke, past dead G
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