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История. OFFICIAL FILMS OF 1942 VOL 3 BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN TOBRUK GUADALCANAL SOLOMON SOUND VERSION 84724cz

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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This Official Films newsreel, “News Thrills of 1942, Vol. 3,” begins with “Egypt: First Pictures of British Stand Against Rommel” (00:24) in the Egyptian desert west of Alexandria. In the summer of 1942 (possibly leading into or as part of the First Battle of El Alamein), British forces (00:29) move into position to prevent German and Italian troops, led by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, from breaking through to Alexandria. General Claude Auchinleck oversees the Eighth Army’s operations and rallies his men (00:43). Antiaircraft guns and extra stores of ammunition are set up in preparation for the fight (01:02). Royal Air Force (RAF) planes provide cover for ground troops (01:14) and bomb advancing Axis columns (01:45). A British tank passes a downed Nazi plane (01:35), and other destroyed German and Italian planes are shown (01:38). The Eighth Army pushes for

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