Battlefronts of World War II

A desperate three-year seesaw conflict pitting the resourceful Afrika Korps of Germany's Erwin Rommel, against the leadership of Britain's Lt. General Bernard Montgomery.

Control of the sea lanes was essential for the movement of troops and supplies fuelling the war effort.

The war began with wooden biplanes and ended with advancements in fixed-wing aircraft, culminating in jet planes.

The mighty German tabk fuelled the lightening war for Nazi conquests. Yet advancements in tank design kept Britain in the fight to capture the North African battlefront.

Using films from the Imperial War Museum in London, see the war as Allied newsreels of the time captured events.

Newsreels portray the Russian onslaught, constant day-and-night bombing from British and Americans, and encroaching Allies from the west and south as they seal Germany's fate.