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Latest Films of Allied Drive in North Africa - 1943

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Channel: US National Archives · 2009 · Education

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Allied soldiers drive on through a muddy Tunisia, while Chinese study air combat in the United States to fend off the Japanese empire in this latest installment from the National Archives.
In part 1, the British 8th Army advances through mud in Tunisia. It shows Gens. Eisenhower and Henri Giraud. In part 2, Chinese air cadets train and graduate in the U.S. In part 3, Marines return from a raid on a Japanese outpost. It shows Adm. Nimitz and Lt. Col. James Roosevelt. In part 4, ammunition and tank destroyers are manufactured; amphibious equipment is tested; and trucks transport food and equipment. In part 5, it shows tests of a 240mm howitzer.


CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)

REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

For information about ordering reproductions of moving images held by the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, visit: http://www.archives.gov/research/order/broadcast-quality-film-dc.html

SUBJECTS
Amphibious warfare
Chinese
Howitzers
Transportation, Military
World War, 1939-1945
Armored cars
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Giraud, Henri, 1879-1949
Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
United News Company, Producer
Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. U.S. Marine Corps.(09/18/1947 -9999 )
China

MORE INFORMATION:
More information is available in the National Archives online catalog:
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=38950

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