War Pictorial News Number 119 (1943)
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39188, LI 208-WP-119 - War Pictorial News Number 119 (1943). Series: Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels, compiled 1943 - 1945. Part 1, war workers and sailors and soldiers of the allied nations parade down the Mall in London; Brit. Gens. Paget and Smith review the parade. Part 2, Queen Elizabeth visits offices of an artillery training school and converses with women antiaircraft gunners. Gunners, including Mary Churchill, operate the guns. Part 3 shows Gen. Montgomery surrounded by crowds in London. Part 4, Brit. troops, tanks, and trucks go ashore on Sicily after opposition has been crushed. Troops and tanks move down a road.
