England.
About the defeat of German-Italian troops by the 8th Army in Egypt and Libya.
Western desert, soldiers are standing near English armored vehicles, an officer is looking at a compass.
Heat, soldiers are pestered by flies.
A soldier in a penny duffel is fiddling with a car.
In contrast to the heat of the day, the nights in the desert are cold.
The hot air of the Hardzin raises a sandstorm.
Arabs say that after 5 days of such a storm a person can be forgiven even for murder.
England.
Africa.
English tanks are moving through the desert, planes are flying.
General Auchinleck in a car with officers.
Troops bypass El Alamein.
Map of the coast, points Tobruk, Bardia, Sollum, Mersa Matruk, El Alamein, Quattara lowland.
The Nile Delta, vital for the Germans /sheep graze in the meadows/.
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the headquarters of the British command.
Alexandria is an important port and base of the English Mediterranean fleet, the Suez Canal is the gateway to the East.
General Auchinleck decides to retreat to El Alamein, the border between Libya and the Nile Delta.
The right flag of the English troops rests on the sea / barbed wire on the shore /, and the left one is in the Quattara Lowland, a view of the marshy area of England.
Troops are moving along the road.
General Auchinleck with soldiers on the road.
Soldiers are building fortifications, installing barbed wire fences and minefields.
A sapper closes a mine.
Soldiers are laying sandbags, installing machine-gun nests.
Trucks are driving along the road.
Troops are waiting for the enemy.
General Auchinleck is looking through binoculars in a car.
German General Rommel is in a car with officers, pointing with his hand.
English guns are firing, English planes are flying.
The 8th Army has fought its way back more than 600 km.
Bombing from the air, bombs flying, explosions on the ground.
However, even after several days of attacks and counterattacks, the Australians, Indians and South Africans continued to hold their lines England.
The Prime Minister of England Churchill arrives in Egypt, he is joyfully greeted by soldiers.
He informs the soldiers that ships with reinforcements and weapons have already rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
The Prime Minister tours the troops, shakes the hands of the soldiers.
With Churchill's arrival, the army received new commanders: General Alexander and Montgomery.
The text of the order to the commanders, signed by Churchill.
In the rear, military factories are working, work processes.
English women work in factories, there is a flow of ammunition.
Production of tanks, ships, airplanes.
Factory workshops, assembly.
The plane is taken out of the hangar, take off.
Military factories in the USA. Production of a new tank "Sherwood" with a 75-mm gun installed in rotating turrets Africa.
The 8th Army's communications were the longest in the history of wars.
Map, transport routes from England and the USA. The 1st route is 20 thousand km around the Cape of Good Hope, the 2nd route is by air, through central Africa.
Construction of airfields in the jungle.
Negroes cut down palm trees, dig, carry aircraft parts.
English planes take off, a squadron in the sky.
Views of the area from above
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England.
Rommel in the desert, he looks through binoculars.
The German army is forced to retreat. 300 German tanks are burning, soldiers lie dead.
Crosses on graves, broken guns.
There is an inscription with a name on the cross, September 1942. A pierced helmet on the cross.
English soldiers inspect the battlefield.
Ammunition and troops for the 8th Army arrive at the port.
Arabs unload a ship.
English soldiers are walking, trains with weapons and Sherwood tanks are driving.
Sign: "Western Desert".
Trucks are driving along the road, a train is walking.
Airplanes are guarding a caravan of vehicles along the road.
Rommel meets a German ship with weapons in the port.
English aviation bombs the port.
A gunner in the cockpit, bombs are flying.
A burning German ship.
English submarine, engine room.
Shooting at German ships, the ship explodes.
Soldiers of the 8th Army train to fight the enemy.
Running, jumping over obstacles.
Soldiers pull a rope, wrestle, jump from a moving truck.
Map, mid-October 1942, diagram of the disposition of German and British troops In Berlin, a conference with journalists is taking place in the Propaganda Ministry.
Goebbels and Rommel enter the hall.
Rommel speaks to journalists, announces plans to seize Egypt.
Goebbels shakes Rommel's hand.
Rommel visits Hitler, who promotes him to field marshal.
Diagram of the disposition of troops.
Egypt.
General Alexander, Admiral Carbutt and Air Marshal Tedder are at the table discussing the plan for an offensive on El Alamein.
General Montgomery and Air Vice Marshal Cunningham are in the forward positions.
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England.
General Montgomery with officers at a map, discussing the tasks.
Officers go to the soldiers, pass on the order.
The fortifications of the strip are to be stormed.
Trucks carry shells to the planes, fill them with fuel, prepare the tanks.
The soldiers are given rations.
Rest before the attack.
Soldiers bathe in the sea, cook on a fire, shave, wash clothes, write letters, smoke, talk.
A Scottish soldier plays the bagpipes, his comrades listen to him.
English tanks drive at night.
The Battle of El Alamein in the evening.
Watch on the hand.
Soldiers prepare weapons, sappers with mine detectors ensure passage through the minefields, mark the way with white tape.
The battle begins with an artillery attack.
Sappers go, remove mines.
Faces of soldiers, attack.
A soldier with bagpipes goes, plays.
The dead fall.
German soldiers surrender
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England.
Africa.
Battlefield.
The first line of enemy trenches is in British hands by morning.
Killed German soldiers, captured guns.
British planes are flying, soldiers are walking, tanks are driving.
Scheme of battles in the north, then an attack in the center and in the south.
The main blow was being prepared in the north.
Combat actions, the British attack, guns are firing.
Australians are attacking.
A radio operator is at the radio.
The gun crew is preparing the gun, loading and firing.
An officer is at the map, he is commanding the gun, the infantry is attacking.
Rommel counterattacks from the air and from the ground.
German bombers are flying, explosions on the ground.
British fighters are in the sky, an air battle is underway.
A plane falls, explodes on the ground.
A British squadron is in the sky.
German planes, destroyed on the ground England.
Africa.
Scheme of battles on the 4th day.
Attack on Kidney Heights.
Artillery shelling.
English soldiers are running.
Guns are firing, a soldier is throwing grenades.
A soldier is at a height, climbing up.
German soldiers are surrendering.
The height is taken.
Scheme: Australian troops supported by English tanks have driven a wedge into the German troop positions in the north near the sea.
A command post under a net.
Sappers are walking around the field, removing mines.
Rommel in a car with the troops.
German artillery is firing.
Attack of English troops and tanks.
Capture of German trenches, a large number of German prisoners are captured.
Soldiers are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher to a car.
Dead men are lying, bandaging the wounded.
Captured Germans are in formation.
An officer at a tank
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England.
Rommel with officers at a field map.
Scheme of battles.
Rommel had to move 2 armored divisions to the north.
Rommel on a hill watches the movement of tanks and vehicles.
English pilots run to the vehicles, take off.
Signal with a flare gun.
English artillery fires.
View from an airplane of the movement of tanks in the desert, bombing.
Tanks of General Montgomery are moving.
Scheme of battles on November 1 along the entire front.
English tanks are moving, artillery is firing.
Killed Germans.
Light tanks of the English behind enemy lines.
General Alexander looks through binoculars.
Scheme of battles.
English tanks are moving.
Rommel in the car points at something with his hand.
Tank battle at El Akakira, the largest during the war. 3/4 of the German tanks were destroyed.
Night battle
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England.
London, Big Ben is ringing.
The radio is reporting on the successes of the 8th Army.
People are listening in the factories, women at their tables, machines, they are shouting with joy England.
English tanks are moving past destroyed German tanks.
German losses are 500 tanks and many guns.
In the south, the 5th Italian Army, abandoned to its fate by Rommel, has been captured.
Italian soldiers are drinking from a dirty spring.
Captured Germans in the north are following an armored car.
Among them are the commander of the African Corps, General von Thoma, the commander of the German parachute units Burkhard, and 8 Italian generals.
The English have buried 20 thousand enemy corpses.
Captured Germans are walking.
English planes are flying, bombing enemy columns on the road.
Planes over the desert, strafing cars from the air.
English tanks are moving along the sand.
It starts raining in the desert, the roads are sticky mud, the airfields are flooded England.
Africa.
The capture of Mersa Matruk.
This was the first port that the British fleet was able to use to deliver various supplies to the ground forces.
Tanks in the city, ruins of buildings.
A sign to Sidi Barrani, tanks and trucks are driving.
The mined El Paya passage, sappers are conducting demining work.
Benghazi is 700 km away, each passage was blown up by the Germans and mined.
Ferries off the coast in Sollum.
The British fleet delivered about 11 billion in water and the necessary equipment England.
Africa.
The British army clears Egypt of the enemy.
British tanks are moving in the fog.
A sign to Bardia.
Torbuk was taken on November 13. View of the city.
The fascist flag is thrown down from the pole.
A fortress that held out for 9 months and which changed hands twice.
A sign to Sirene-derna.
The 8th Army left the desert and entered the area of green fields and gardens.
A sign pointing to Benghazi, British tanks in the city.
The British flag is being raised on the tower.
The army replenished its supplies here.
There are many sunken ships in the port after British bombing.
Port equipment and piers are destroyed.
Work is underway to clear the port, British ships are being unloaded.
England.
Africa.
Rommel in Alageila.
British tanks attack.
The Germans retreat.
The 850 km from Alageila to Tripoli were covered by the 8th Army in 41 days.
A sign in Italian, the city of Home.
British equipment is driving along the road, it is being controlled by a traffic controller.
Fighting on the approaches to Tripoli.
A wounded man is being carried on a stretcher.
Artillery is firing.
The surrender of Libya by the Governor of Libya and the mayor of the city, General Montgomery.
The British army deprived Italy of all its colonial possessions: Abyssinia, Italian Somalia, Libya, Tripolitania.
Troops on the way, tanks driving England.
Parade of British troops in the city.
Bagpipers are walking, playing.
Generals are riding in a car.
Churchill's words to the 8th Army are heard.
Montgomery is driving around the troops in a car, greeting them.
Soldiers are hanging out the English flag.
Residents are greeting the British.
Text of the telegram to the Prime Minister from General Alexander about the execution of the order.
Churchill and the generals are reviewing the parade of troops.
Airplanes are flying, guns are driving, tanks, infantry is walking.
The flag of England
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