Greece
Series
- Series Name
- War Pictorial News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 2
- Summary
- Athens welcomes British troops. Unloading supplies for Greece - food etc. British troops fire on ELAS forces. ELAS prisoners. German dynamite discovered down a manhole. Churchill and Eden arrives [sic] in Athens, to restore confidence in British policy. They are awaited by Field Marshal Alexander and General Scobie. British delegation watch RAF fighter planes firing on buildings still held by ELAS. Archbishop Damaskinos accepts the Regency of Greece. US NATIONAL ARCHIVE ENTRY: 10 min, sd, B&W, 35 mm British troops parade in Athens, civilians greet them warmly. Tanks, infantry and machine gun units battle Fascist guerillas in the streets; prisoners are rounded up and searched. Supplies are unloaded from ships. Shows British Generals Alexander and Scobie. Winston Churchill, and Russian representatives at the British Embassy. Dynamite is removed from a manhole. Churchill alights from a lorry. Anthony Eden and General Alexander observe a dogfight between RAF guerilla planes. Archbishop Damaskinos and General Alexander watch a parade of civilians. Record Group 208 Accession 3276
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Ships and boats; Aviation; Ceremonies; Prisoners of war; War and conflict; Military; Religion and belief
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Rex Keating
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
- film@iwm.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film
- Phone
- 020 7416 5291
- Fax
- 020 7416 5379
- Address
- Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ - Notes
- The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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