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Issue No.

102

Date Released

1943

Stories in this Issue:

Story No. within this Issue: 1 / 1
Summary: US National Archive entry: 9 min, sd, B&W 35mm On the battle for Tunisia. Shows an Allied convoy at sea: troops, trucks, tanks and materiel being unloaded at a North African port; and naval anti-aircraft driving off German planes. Roads are repaired and German POWs marched to the rear. Allied soldiers mingle with civilians in rubbled Gabes. British armour rolls through El Hamma. Generals Alexander and Montgomery confer with Air Marshal Broadhurst. Spitfires take off; a German installation is bombed. British troops repair a captured airstrip. Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery shake hands. Tanks advance; artillery and mortars are fired. British paratroops debark from transports. Fighter planes land on an airstrip. Record Group 208 Accession III-NAV-262
Keywords: Ships and boats; Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; War damage; Prisoners of war; Navy; Engineering; Military

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