NAVAL OPERATIONS [Main Title]

A rough analysis of various sea battles of the early war years is combined with a description of various classes of warship to provide basic information on the character of contemporary naval combat.

An opening sequence (including 'News' excerpts and part of Churchill's description of his 'Atlantic Charter' voyage) indicates the worldwide distribution and activities of the Navy. Representative film of battleships, aircraft carriers, carrier-based and Coastal Command aircraft, cruisers and destroyers, with descriptions of their characteristics, is interspersed with animated diagrams of the Bismarck, Admiral Graf Spee and Cape Mataplan battles indicating the tactical and strategic ideas governing their deployment ("All naval success depends on these units working together as one team"). "These are some of the tools with which we shall finish the job."

35mm