Latest News Films From The Tunisian Battle Front (1943)
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38956, LI 208-UN-49 - Latest News Films From The Tunisian Battle Front (1943). Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, soldiers attend a religious service and go swimming. Tanks and artillery bombard German positions. Part 2, shows construction on a Central American highway between Panama and Mexico City. Part 3, shows air defenses of Washington, DC. Part 4, shows cows and sheep in Australia. Part 5, a Coast Guard cutter fires guns and depth charges at a German submarine damaged in ramming the sub, the cutter is towed to port by a Polish destroyer. Part 6, Flying Fortresses bomb a German submarine base and return to England.
