WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 102
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Date: 2011-04-01

WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 102 - National Archives and Records Administration 1943 - ARC 39182, LI 208-WP-102 - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway.  Series: Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels, compiled 1943 - 1945.  On the battle for Tunisia. Shows an Allied convoy at sea; troops, trucks, tanks, and materiel being unloaded at a N. African port; and naval antiaircraft driving off Ger. planes. Roads are repaired and Ger. POW's marched to the rear. Allied soldiers mingle with civilians in rubbled Gabes. Brit. armor rolls through El Hamma. Gens. Alexander and Montgomery confer with Air Marshal Broadhurst. "Spitfires" take off; a Ger. installation is bombed. Brit. troops repair a captured airstrip. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery shake hands. Tanks advance; artillery and mortars are fired. Brit. paratroops debark from transports. Fighter planes land on an airstrip.