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In a land of dust, ruin, and forgotten hope, one figure rises against impossible odds. Rise in the Wasteland tells a gripping story of survival, courage, and redemption, where strength is forged in the harshest terrain and destiny is claimed through sacrifice.
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00:01:29Thousands of square miles are nothing but sand and stone.
00:01:35A compass is as necessary once off the road as it is to a sailor at sea.
00:01:41Water doesn't exist until you bore deep into the earth.
00:01:45You bark in your shaving mug.
00:01:48Flies have the tenacity of bulldogs.
00:01:51Boozes readily turn to desert swords.
00:01:54Days that are very hot can be followed by nights of bitter cold.
00:02:01When the hot campsine wind brings its sandstorms, life can be intolerable.
00:02:07The Arabs say that after five days of it, murder can be excused.
00:02:17The tide of this war in the desert has ended and flowed.
00:02:21But as Rommel advanced after we lost to Brook, never had our backs been so close to the Suez War.
00:02:27We had lost 80,000 men and much booty.
00:02:31There were earlier lines of defense on which General Orkin Meck might have said,
00:02:54that he was deliberately falling back on El Al-Aman, no more than 60 miles from Alexandria.
00:03:06To Rommel, advancing at considerable speed,
00:03:10Egypt, with the Nile Delta which gives it life,
00:03:13Cairo, British General Headquarters and Africa's principal city,
00:03:19Alexandria, Egypt's chief port and base of our Mediterranean fleet,
00:03:24and Suez, gateway to the Far East.
00:03:28All these must have seemed dazzlingly near,
00:03:31as near as a mirage,
00:03:34and as it proved, as much an illusion.
00:03:37It was a wise decision of General Orkin Meck to come back to El Al-Aman,
00:03:43much the strongest natural line of defense between the Libyan frontier and the Delta.
00:03:48More other, Rommel's lines of supply were here stretched to the limit.
00:03:53On the right, our flank rested on the sea.
00:03:57On the left, it approached the Quatara Depression,
00:04:00a trough the size of Wales,
00:04:03one-third of its salt marsh,
00:04:04and all of its territories that no vehicle can cross.
00:04:25On this 40 miles front,
00:04:27General Orkin Meck took personal command.
00:04:30His, the total responsibility.
00:04:31Not another yard back were we going.
00:04:36His much-depleted army dug,
00:04:38blasted, and wired its servants,
00:04:40and laid protective mines.
00:04:43Our front was one of discontinuous belts of minefields
00:04:46with strong points,
00:04:48and machine gun and anti-tank gun emplacements.
00:04:51But it was as yet
00:04:52extremely slender.
00:04:54Here, General Orkin Meck waited.
00:05:08And with him,
00:05:09men who had fought at Ghazala,
00:05:11and Sidera's egg.
00:05:13Others who had been twice to Bengali.
00:05:16Others who had escaped from Bear Hakeem and Tobruk.
00:05:19The Eighth Army had made a fighting retreat of 400 miles.
00:05:26And the battle which approached in its importance,
00:05:29the Battle of Britain,
00:05:30was now at hand.
00:05:33The Middle East,
00:05:34Jewels,
00:05:35and infinitely more,
00:05:37were at stake.
00:05:39The crucial days had come.
00:05:41The Battle of Britain,
00:06:11The line held.
00:06:37After several days of attack and counterattack,
00:06:40the British, Australians, Indians, and South Africans
00:06:43were still there,
00:06:45fighting as doggies as our infantry at Waterloo.
00:06:49The immediate crisis was passed,
00:06:52but anxiety remained.
00:06:54Into this situation
00:07:11stepped Mr. Churchill,
00:07:13bringing his own inspiration and vigor.
00:07:16He brought good news
00:07:18of reinforcement both in men and supplies
00:07:20which had already rounded the Cape.
00:07:24For five days he visited the Army and Air Force,
00:07:27explaining the task and its importance.
00:07:31And most dramatic of all,
00:07:33he brought new commanders,
00:07:35General Alexander and General Montgomery.
00:07:38Alexander, one of the last men out of Dunkirk,
00:07:41and whose small army withstood the Japanese
00:07:43the whole length of Burma,
00:07:45and Montgomery,
00:07:46who took over the Eighth Army,
00:07:48and then who lives as sternly as a crumball,
00:07:51and who is as much a part
00:07:52of his modern iron diet.
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00:08:12Battles swallow up weapons faster than you can build them.
00:08:36At home in Britain, the machinery of war poured from the factories.
00:08:40And British women worked alongside men on the shells, the ships, the tanks, the aircraft,
00:08:49the explosives.
00:08:50In no country are women so thoroughly organized for war.
00:09:10In the United States, bigger and more powerful tanks were coming off the assembly line.
00:09:35The Shermans, for instance, with their 75-millimeter gun and all-round travel, going to Egypt for
00:09:44the first time.
00:09:46Although American material used at LLMN was but a small proportion of the hull, it was
00:09:52vital to our success.
00:09:54The 8th Army had the longest lines of supplies that the history of war has ever known.
00:10:12There are two main routes to the Middle East from Britain and America.
00:10:18The first by sea round the Cape, 12,000 miles menaced by U-boats, which nothing but the resolution
00:10:25of our merchant seamen and the main guard over them has kept open.
00:10:29And the second by air across the middle of Africa, over the Niger, and then north along the Nile
00:10:36area.
00:10:38Landing grounds have been kept from the jungle.
00:10:44On this route, fly aircraft brought by ship to ports on the west coast, and they are assembled.
00:10:59The work has its own problems, among them malaria.
00:11:03Martin, and we have gospels Ciao.
00:11:21Ladies and gentlemen, can I askGuys and governors, how many of you will ride us with joy-like
00:11:28Behind the line, great reinforcements.
00:11:39In the line, Rommel had come for us again.
00:11:43It was two months later.
00:11:46He told his troops that on this day, they were going to Cairo.
00:11:51But five days afterwards, he withdrew.
00:11:55He left nearly 300 tanks behind.
00:11:58To prove his generalship.
00:12:28In two or three months, we recreated and greatly enlarged the Eighth Army.
00:12:37Into Middle East ports came men from the United Kingdom, India, and South Africa.
00:12:42The 44th Home County Division and the 51st Highlands Division had actually left Britain in May and June.
00:12:49And it was at the time to Brookfield that President Roosevelt, who had Mr. Churchill with him at the time, ordered the first German tanks to Egypt.
00:13:00Long-range planning was yielding its reward.
00:13:03The Air Force kept gone.
00:13:27Rommel, with a supply line one-tenth the length of ours, was himself building up his supplies as hard as he could go.
00:13:51But for a considerable proportion of them, there was no future.
00:13:58Our United Air Forces go on to that.
00:14:00Also, I think so.
00:14:07To be fair andzymier.
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00:14:56The Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm also were busy destroying robot convoys.
00:15:05Within a few weeks, our Mediterranean submarines sank or damaged 24 enemy ships.
00:15:11In August 11th, of all that was shipped to him, 80% went to the bottom.
00:15:26Fire!
00:15:34Meanwhile, the Eighth Army trained to the last time.
00:15:39The physical fitness and hardness of an army is one of the biggest battle-winning factors in war.
00:15:45When two first-class fighters meet, he who's fixed it longest wins in the end.
00:15:51This has been proved time and time again, and applies to all ranks, from general officers to private soldiers.
00:15:59And this includes all branches of the army, whatever their job and wherever they be.
00:16:06Fighting fit and fit to fight.
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00:16:48Towards the middle of October, preparations on both sides were nearing completion.
00:17:05In the north, Rommel's forces stretched from the coast to a point ten miles inland.
00:17:10Here were the bulk of his German infantry comprising the 90th light and the 164th divisions,
00:17:15together with the Italian Trieste division.
00:17:18In the south, holding a front of 14 miles, were three Italian divisions.
00:17:23These were strengthened by the rest of his German infantry.
00:17:27The centre was left deliberately weak, held by a single Italian division, the Bologna,
00:17:33holding a front of 16 miles.
00:17:36Behind the infantry in the north were two armoured divisions,
00:17:39one German and one Italian, and similarly in the south.
00:17:42The British line began in the north, with the ninth Australians, and below them, the first South Africans.
00:17:51The 51st Highland division, who had some valery to avenge,
00:17:54and the 4th Indian division, veterans of Abyssinia and the Western Desert, held the centre.
00:17:59In the south, were the 50th division from the Teeth and Tyne, with the fighting French of Bir Hakim, and contingents of Greeks.
00:18:08The tactical reserve was found by the 44th division, from counties close to London.
00:18:14Our armoured divisions were three, all United Kingdom men.
00:18:19Some veterans of a score of desert battles, others new to the work.
00:18:23One division, the famous 7th, held the extreme south.
00:18:28The other two were in close support in the north, with the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division alongside.
00:18:39Rommel was full of confidence.
00:18:42He was saying to journalists in Berlin,
00:18:44You may rely on our holding fast to what we have got.
00:18:49We hold the gateway to Egypt with the full intention to hold.
00:18:53Hitler was experiencing one of his historic intuitions.
00:19:12He saw before him the destined conqueror of Egypt.
00:19:18And on him, he bestowed the baton of feud-marshal.
00:19:22Rommel hoped that if we attacked first, we should strike at his centre.
00:19:28That hope we deliberately encouraged by the disposition of our forces.
00:19:32Having allowed our armour to break through,
00:19:35he saw himself destroying it by attacks from both flanks.
00:19:39That done, his own offensive would be launched.
00:19:48General Alexander, Admiral Harwood, and Air Marshal Tedder
00:19:51planned our men together.
00:19:54It was to be a joint operation.
00:19:57Unity of command had become a reality.
00:20:02In the desert itself,
00:20:04General Montgomery and Air Vice Marshal Cunningham
00:20:06lived cheek by jowl.
00:20:08There was no divided command,
00:20:10said General Montgomery.
00:20:11There was only one command.
00:20:13General Montgomery,
00:20:20realizing that a citizen army fights best when it knows exactly what's going on
00:20:25and what it is going to do,
00:20:27saw to it that the plan of battle was known to everybody,
00:20:31from general to private soldier.
00:20:33And it came down from one rank to another
00:20:36till the chain was complete.
00:20:37so that senior officers fighting in their third desert winter
00:20:41shared the knowledge
00:20:43with troopers going into action for the first time.
00:20:48The battle was against fixed lines.
00:20:51And against fixed lines,
00:20:53General Alexander said,
00:20:55the tactics are just like breaking down a wall with a crowbar.
00:20:59You drive it in as far as possible
00:21:02and then lever this way and that
00:21:04to make a small hole.
00:21:07Then you enlarge it.
00:21:09As soon as you have made a hole large enough,
00:21:12your armored divisions go through
00:21:14to wreck the enemy's artillery
00:21:16and lines of communication.
00:21:19As for General Montgomery,
00:21:21he said his intention was to hit the enemy for six
00:21:24right out of Africa.
00:21:28The final preparations began.
00:21:32The final
00:22:31And now that all knew what was to be done, and always made ready, there were final moments
00:22:54of normal desert life, of rest, of washing clothes, of a swim in the sea for those near
00:23:02the coast, of cooking the evening meal.
00:23:05The coming of dawn over the Mediterranean, the sunset with a touch of green in the horizon,
00:23:19the mirage turning sand into water, and sprinkling that water with the sails of small ships.
00:23:26Many a soldier saw these things, perhaps for the first time, and he wrote his letters home,
00:23:34and smoked, and talked things over, or lay silent as he listened to the pipes playing Highland
00:23:41Maddy.
00:23:41Yay!
00:23:42Hear!
00:24:20The Battle of El Alamén began in the evening.
00:24:44As life failed, the final moves were made.
00:24:50The Battle of Elamén began in the evening.
00:25:20The Eighth Army watched Rommel's lines, lying in moonlight and shadow.
00:25:32At zero, minus thirty, the barrage begins.
00:25:48At the same moment, the sappers will move forward to clear gaps in the enemy minefields, marking
00:25:56the gaps in white tapes.
00:26:00After thirty minutes, the barrage will lift from the first objective and creep forward.
00:26:08At zero hours, ten is lost.
00:26:10The infantry will advance.
00:26:12The infantry will advance.
00:26:14The infantry will advance.
00:26:16Until then, the infantry will advance.
00:26:22The infantry will advance.
00:32:58Rommel counterattack repeatedly during these days was on the ground and in the air.
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00:33:58The air force was doing a magnificent job.
00:34:15For the Luftwaffe, the skies became a place of deadly peril.
00:34:20And the machines that escaped us there were destroyed on the ground.
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00:34:58The men, light tanks, and armored cars.
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00:36:28In the meantime, the Australians, backed by British tanks, were exploiting their former northward thrusts and driving a wedge still further into the German forces near the sea.
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00:38:37that large groups of prisoners were in our hands.
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00:39:37While the battle in the north was raging,
00:39:44Rommel had been forced to end.
00:39:46We had imposed our will on him.
00:39:49He moved two panther divisions,
00:39:50the 21st and Ariete,
00:39:53from the south to just below our salient.
00:40:01The air force began the task
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00:42:40But the blow we meant to be mortal was struck at the head of the bulge.
00:43:10The blow we meant to be mortal.
00:43:40The blow we meant to be mortal.
00:44:11Within two hours, our light tanks were 40 miles behind Ronald's line, destroying his transport.
00:44:18The result was consternation and chaos.
00:44:20The moment that Alexander and Montgomery had been waiting for had come.
00:44:42The entire weight of their armor was in readiness, and like a fleet of ironclad, it sailed through the gaps.
00:44:49Its purpose was simple, to destroy Rommel's armor.
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00:57:19The surrender of Tripoli by the governor of Libya and the mayor of the city
00:57:27extinguished the Italian overseas empire.
00:57:31Country by country, the British army had conquered it.
00:57:35Abyssinia, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Libya, Tripolitania.
00:57:41Not a single town now remained to them.
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00:58:19In three days, the Eighth Army had advanced close on 1,400 miles, a feat unparalleled in military history.
00:58:27Throughout the battle in advance, for every casualty suffered, it had inflicted five on the enemy.
00:58:32In the words of Mr. Churchill, you have altered the face of the war in the most remarkable way.
00:58:41What this must have meant in care and organization of the whole movement and maneuvers,
00:58:48what it must have meant in the endurance, tireless endurance and self-denial of the troops,
00:58:55and in the fearless leadership in action, can only be appreciated by those who are actually on the spot.
00:59:03But I must tell you that your fame, the fame of the Desert Army, has spread throughout the world.
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01:01:05First pictures of the United States offensive against Japanese bases in the Aleutians.
01:01:11September 1942, a large U.S. convoy slips through Aleutian fog to a secret destination called Fireplace in Cove.
01:01:19A harbor close to Kiska, an easy bomber range. The blinker gives the signal. And under cover of fog, well-armed scouts scramble down the landing nets into ready assault boats. First step in America's advance in the Aleutians.
01:01:33Not many bomber miles away, Jap-occupied positions as yet are wholly unaware of this new American threat.
01:01:40Quickly soldiers pour ashore with small arms and ammunition, swarming inward for reconnaissance to make sure the island is uninhabited. And right behind, the first waves of equipment and supplies. Vehicles and heavier guns. The growing stream unloading quickly from Higgins' boats which shuttle back and forth from bulging transports in the harbor.
01:02:03Wave after wave in careful pre-planned schedules. Never stopping, the military cargo ferries bring ashore an endless stream of food and water, clothing, ammunition, and some of the vast quantities of fuel necessary to maintain a major landing force.
01:02:18Along the beach, protectors stay alert.
01:02:27Long recognized as important to both offensive and defensive North Pacific strategy, the 1,100-mile Aleutian string of largely uninhabited volcanic islands lies just above the shortest actual route from Seattle to Tokyo.
01:02:43The great circle route. The great circle route. The way a plane would fly. About halfway along the 4,600-mile route is Dutch Harbor. And since 1938, defense outpost for the island chain and for Alaska.
01:02:581,800 sea miles from Seattle. But from Kiska, snatched by the Jap in June, only 625 miles for enemy bombers to fly and drain destruction. Once they got away with it. Dutch Harbor was the American frontier then. And in June, it suffered severe damage.
01:03:17But now the United States has struck back. Hard. Ready to avenge Dutch Harbor.
01:03:24Hundreds Commander General Landrum, the advanced striking base rapidly digs into its new quarters.
01:03:30A permanent camp is laid out quickly on the treeless, inhospitable slopes above the barren island beaches, protected by anti-aircraft gunners on constant alert.
01:03:43Meantime, communications around the island are promptly established.
01:03:48Landing operations are steady hard work. And toiling troops are all too ready for chow and what little relaxation the bleak and empty island offers.
01:04:05But not too much time out now.
01:04:28Hour after hour supplies roll ashore.
01:04:30A small fleet of sea barges carrying the heavy derricks, cranes and tractors and more supplies is brought into shore to form a dock.
01:04:37And crate upon crate, pile upon pile, jams up the beachhead waiting to be carted off by trucks.
01:04:44More and more ammunition. And rows of U.S. bombs ashore and ready for the air offensive.
01:04:55The big cranes are put ashore. Their unloading job finished.
01:04:58While tractors, bulldozers and graders land to build the airport.
01:05:10And here it is. A long, flat area ideal for planes.
01:05:16Except for a mountain stream overrunning its surface and forming many shallow lakes.
01:05:19Right away the dozers go to work scraping the volcanic earth into a dike at one side of the field.
01:05:25Deverting the stream's course. Making the field safe.
01:05:28The moment that engineers declare the soggy field ready for big, heavy flying fortresses, bomber squadrons will be called to go into immediate action.
01:05:44Almost midway between Dutch Harbor and Kiska, a new base at fireplace in the Adrianoffs puts the U.S. Army Air Force within fighter range of Kiska and easy bomber range of Attu farther west.
01:06:01And here they are. All ready. Poised in battle line on the new airfield carpet dry.
01:06:08The air arm of the United States forces in the Aleutians.
01:06:12Giant B-24s and B-17s.
01:06:15The liberators and flying fortresses feared the world over.
01:06:18Ready for attack when motors and guns have been carefully checked.
01:06:20Bombs fill up the bomb bays of one big plane after another.
01:06:25A message for the Japanese in a language he understands.
01:06:28It's the beginning of America's round now.
01:06:31They've got a base within range of the Jap.
01:06:33They've got equipment, planes and ammunition.
01:06:36They've got men here, skilled veteran flyers, who in an hour will be winging their four-motored sky fortresses over Jap-held territory.
01:06:43Welcome target for their bomb sites.
01:06:50In the dim illusion dawn, one plane after another fills with crew, eager and ready for attack.
01:07:07All set. Let's go.
01:07:20Above the clouds of the foggiest area in the world.
01:07:46Below island after island of the illusion chain.
01:07:50Where for years, innocent looking Jap fisher boats lurked in disguise.
01:07:54Plotting shoals and reefs for future reference.
01:07:57And use.
01:07:59Approaching the island of Kiska, machine gunners poised for action.
01:08:05In the harbor, a Nipponese warship.
01:08:07Without deviating from their course, the gunners scrape the decks.
01:08:15And now they're over the objective.
01:08:17Bomb bays open silently, ready for the signal.
01:08:19And there go American bombs, hurtling downward.
01:08:26Japan's first taste of the United States advance in the Aleutians.
01:08:30That's the Jap base at Kiska.
01:08:33With serious fires started by the big bombs.
01:08:35Another load, recorded by slow motion camera, shoots toward the surprised enemy below.
01:08:47A first sample of treatment you can expect, daily from now on.
01:08:50The signs of their thorough handiwork blazing behind them, the American air fleet wings over and heads home.
01:09:05Communicate from the Aleutians.
01:09:06At dawn, a fleet of United States B-17 and B-24 bombers took off from an advanced Aleutian base with Japanese installations at Kiska as objective.
01:09:20Caverned enemy fire was encountered.
01:09:24One Japanese warship straightened.
01:09:27High explosive and demolition bombs were dropped with success on objectives and several fires were observed.
01:09:32All attacking planes returned safely to their base.
01:09:35The air fighters have come back to fireplace. New notches on their guns. No casualties, despite grim reminders of the enemy's marksmanship.
01:09:51But they'll be going out again tomorrow, and the next day and the next.
01:10:10America's Aleutian offensive against Japan. An end of the beginning, and beginning of the end.
01:10:21America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
01:10:24America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
01:10:25America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
01:10:26America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
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01:10:30America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
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01:10:35America's Aleutian offensive against Japan.
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