Italian Islands First to Fall as Invasion Begins 1943

Part 1, allied planes bomb Pantelleria Island. Part 2, Gens. de Gaulle and Giraud inspect French troops in North Africa. Giraud decorates Gen. Eisenhower. Part 3, U.S. farmers sow potatoes. Part 4, Hindus gather for a religious ceremony in India. Part 5, shows work on the "Big Inch" pipe line. Part 6, Greece receives a lend-lease destroyer in Washington, D.C. Shows President Roosevelt. Part 7 shows the world's largest synthetic rubber plant in the U.S. Part 8, Madame Chiang Kai-shek reviews WAVES, SPARS, and women Marines. Part 9, Argentine President Castillo is overthrown by revolution in Buenos Aires.

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-italian-islands-first-to-fall-as-invasion-begins-38962.pdf

CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau.

SUBJECTS
o Destroyers (Warships)
o Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
o Petroleum industry and trade
o Potatoes
o World War, 1939-1945
o Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003
o Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
o Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
o Giraud, Henri, 1879-1949
o Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
o France. Armée
o Buenos Aires (Distrito Federal, Argentina, South America) inhabited place
o District of Columbia (United States, North and Central America) district (national)
o India (Asia) nation

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.

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