Newsbriefs from the Middle East

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
41/94
Date Released
24 Nov 1941
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Canada’s Shipbuilding Effort
  2. 2Newsbriefs from the Middle East
  3. 3Vanguard of Victory
  4. 4High Command Changes
  5. 5Soviet Sailors in Britain
  6. 6Maryland Bombers
  7. *USS Haddock Launched
  8. *Launching "Trigger"
  9. *Testing Pilots
  10. *New Bishop Enthroned
  11. *Pig Derby

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Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
By Order of Air Vice Marshal Cunningham, Officers’ Mess in the desert now becomes Pilots’ Mess also. Says Cunningham: "They take the same risks, give ‘em the same comforts". Tailor’s shop in the desert. Blacksmith in the desert. Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Mae West and Deanna Durbin, but only in photograph form - in troops’ helmets. Troops in the desert have found that by pouring sea water into a large drum, lighting a fire and letting the steam pass through pipes to condensers where it cools off, they have something like fresh water. Soldiers go fishing but take so long that in the end they open another tin of Bully Beef.
Keywords
Food and cooking; Aviation; Performing arts; Military; Inventions and discoveries
Locations
Libya; Western Desert
Length of story (in feet)
265
Story extras:
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British Pathe Ltd
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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