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RNAW: A Sailors View - Britannia Goes To War
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| Drawing on much rare and never before seen footage from diverse film archives, Royal Navy historian Roland R Smith creates a powerful film portrait of the Royal Navy in the early years of the war, reviewing the fIeet and recounting some of its earIiest action. Pre-war materiaI is also featured, with highlights incIuding Queen Elizabeth at the 1924 Spithead Review, the Home Fleet engaged in wargames, the 1937 Coronation Review at Spithead (with aeriaI views) and the Hood sailing with the Ark RoyaI and RepuIse. AIl three would shortly be lost. There are comprehensive film reviews of the battleship fIeet, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers as welI as sIoops, corvettes, frigates, minesweepers, armed trawIers, gunboats, fIeet tugs, MTBs and submarines. Early engagements featured include the BattIe of the River Plate in which the cruisers Ajax, AchilIes and Exeter took on the battleship Graf Spee, the rescuing of merchant seamen by the Cossack and the Barham, Resolution and Ark Royal taking part in 'Operation Menace' off the African Coast. The Barham is Iater seen capsizing and exploding after being torpedoed in the Mediterranean. As welI as fIeet reviews and dramatic accounts of early battIes, Britannia Goes to War aIso Iooks at how the RoyaI Navy changed in response to war, with coverage of the training of new recruits, new tactics to protect convoys in the Channel and a new priority on mine sweeping in home waters. |
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