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Poster for the 1942 Hollywood movie Yankee Doodle Dandy
"Over There"
Excerpts from the 1942 Hollywood movie Yankee Doodle Dandy
with James Cagney as composer George M. Cohan (1878 - 1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy was released in New York City on May 29, 1942
"Over There" was a big hit in 1917
or
or
George M. Cohan
Singing Over There on radio in 1936
Stalin,
the Nazis and the West
Episode 2 of 2008 BBC documentary series Behind Closed Doors
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World War Two
1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly
2012 BBC documentary with David Reynolds
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0FNnTX6cI
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLvx8L_jzM&t=438s
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Second Front The Allied Strategy for Defeating Germany and Italy in the West
In the east, deep in Russia, the Soviets besieged by the Germans.
The Soviets pressed the British and Americans to open a second front against the Germans by invading from
the west.
But
the British and Americans were not prepared to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe.
The
British and the Americans followed two plans to invade and conquer Germany and Italy.
They invaded the European continent from two directions:
(1) from
the south - launching an invasion of Sicily from North Africa - in 1943,
and then
(2) from the north - launching an invasion of northern France from England - in
1944.
The Attack from
the South, November 1942 - 1945
First, the British and Americans would disembark in French
North Africa.
Joined by the French in North Africa, they would drive westward to attack
the Germans and Italians in Tunisia.
They would meet British forces pushing the Germans out of Egypt and
Libya into Tunisia and defeat the Axis in Tunisia.
Then, from Tunisia, the Allies would invade the European
continent from the south, starting with Sicily.
Drive north through Italy and southern France.
Push north to the Rhine.
Drive east through Germany.
In
late 1942 the British stopped the German and Italian advance across North Africa towards the Near East in Egypt.
The British then pushed the Axis
forces back across Libya and into Tunisia.
In November 1942, the Americans and British landed
in French North Africa. Together with the French, the British and the Americans proceeded to Tunisia, crushed German
and Italian forces, and expelled the Axis from North Africa.
In early 1943, the Allies invaded the European
continent from Tunisia. They captured Sicily. The Italians surrendered and quit the Axis.
The Allies invaded the Italian peninsula in September
1943 and forced the Germans to withdraw to the north. The Allies took Rome in June 1944.
In August 1944, the Allies landed on France's eastern
Mediterranean coast and pushed northward to the alps.
The Attack from the North, June 1944 - May 1945
In June 1944 - as
the Allies captured Rome from the south - the Allies
invaded northwestern Europe through Normandy and Brittany, drove eastward through northern France and the Lowlands, crossed
the Rhine in March 1945 and stopped at the Elbe in April.
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France 1940 - 1942
Germany invaded France in May 1940.
The French government withdrew from Paris to Bordeaux in June.
The Germans marched into Paris.
The French government resigned.
A new French government
was formed by Maréchal
Philippe Pétain to arrange an armistice with the Germans.
The French
government reconvened in the town of Vichy in unoccupied France.
 The Germans let the French govern France. - The northern and western halves of France were to be occupied
by the Germans. - The southeast of France was left unoccupied
by the Germans and to be controlled by the French. - The French retained control of French overseas departments and territories. - The French government moved from Bordeaux in German-occupied southwestern France to the town of Vichy in unoccupied southeastern France.
Pétain appointed
Pierre Laval prime minister in July 1940 and dismissed him in December.
Images
et Paroles du Maréchal Pétain
Chef
de l’État français
La France en Marche
Documentaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrA2wwohhk
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Map
of Europe and Africa in early 1941 shows German-occupied France and Vichy-governed France (as one); Vichy-governed France
and Africa; and Free French-controlled Central
Africa . In April 1941, the British occupied Italian East Africa. By June 1941, the Germans and Italians occupied Greece and
Crete.
The map shows France and North Africa in October
1942, just before the Allied landings.
The Germans occupied the north and west of
France - 60% of the country.
The French government, with its headquarters in the
town of Vichy, governed the occupied and unoccupied France, French North Africa and all overseas possessions, which were not occupied.
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Early
1940 sketch of Admiral Jean François Darlan
Admiral
François Darlan, French
armed forces commander-in-chief, prime
minister from February 1941 to April 1942
Maréchal
Pétain, left, and Admiral Darlan, right.
L'Amiral Darlan Le 14 mars 1941Les Actualités Mondiales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxQHUBcDj8 Allocution
du Maréchal Pétain 17 juin 1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z4SUYs14X0
Attentat
contre Pierre Laval En direct 27 août 1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP-1TofWx9I Pétain reappointed
Laval prime minister in April 1942, replacing Admiral Darlan. Laval Reprend la
Tête du Gouvernement
18 April 1942
Éditions
Spéciales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls4dtmbSfhs
The leaders of the Vichy government in mid-1942, left to right: Maréchal Philippe Petain, chief of state; Petain's deputy and successor, Admiral François Darlan, armed forces
commander-in-chief; and Pierre
Laval, prime minister and head of government. Laval
was also minister of foreign affairs, minister of the interior, and minister of information. Une
journée de travail de Pierre Laval
Les
Actualités Pierre Laval en 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktkA83LCNV0
France
- The Germans invaded France in May 1940. As the Germans closed in on Paris
in June, the Italians declared war against the British and the French.
North Africa
- Following Germany's defeat of France in June 1940, the British attacked the French Mediterranean fleet
at Mers-el-Kebir in Algeria in July to keep it from the Germans;
- The Italians launched an attack from their Libyan colony against the British in Egypt, but the
British pushed them back into Tunisia;
- The Germans came to the aid of the Italians and pushed the British back into Egypt, but they were
eventually stopped by the British in Egypt at El-Alamein;
- As the British fought the Germans and Italians in North Africa,
to prevent them from taking the Suez Canal and getting the oil fields of the Near East, they planned with the Americans an
invasion of French North Africa.
- As the British pushed the Germans back into Libya in November
1942, the Americans and the British disembarked in Morocco and Algeria;
- The British, pressing against Axis forces from the
east, and the Americans, British and the French, pressing against the Axis forces from the west, cornered and defeated the
Axis in Tunisia and forced them out of North Africa in May 1943.
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Allied Invasion of French North Africa
Long anticipated, Long
awaited,
the Americans arrive
Throughout October
and early November 1942, many French military men, demobilised in June 1940 and aware that the Americans were about to arrive
in North Africa, made their way to Algiers.
Plans
for an Anglo-American invasion of North Africa: Operation BLACK, Operation BARRISTER, Operation GYMNAST, Spring
1941 ARCADIA
Conference, Christmas 1941 Operation SUPER-GYMNAST, February 1942
Meetings in London and Washington, June/July 1942
Operation TORCH, July 1942 Alexander and Montgomery
assigned commands in TORCH, July 1942 Eisenhower,
9 August 1942
FDR, 12 August 1942
Eisenhower, mid-September 1942
Operation Torch
Allied invasion of French
North West Africa
November 8 - 11, 1942
For three
months before the Allied invasion of French North Africa by the Americans and the British, the U. S. government and the French government in Vichy
were in discussions about joining forces in North Africa to fight the Germans and Italians.
The Vichy government agreed to join forces.
American and British forces planned to disembark at three points in
North Africa on November 8 - Algiers and Oran in Algeria and
Casablanca in French Morocco.
The commander of the operation was American General Dwight David
Eisenhower. His headquarters were in England and the British colony of Gibraltar.
Lt. Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower,
Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force
of the North African Theater of Operations
(NATO USA), at his headquarters in the British colony of Gibraltar, commanded Operation Torch. From 1930 to 1935, when General
Douglas MacArthur was the Army Chief of Staff, in Washington, D. C., Eisenhower was his top military aid. When
MacArthur was assigned to the Philippines in 1935, Eisenhower remained his top aid. Eisenhower returned to the U. S. in
1939 and assumed top administrative staff positions under numerous generals, the last being Gen. George C. Marshall,
Army Chief of Staff, who sent Eisenhower to London as Commanding General, European Theatre of Operations (ETO USA) in
June 1942.
General Eisenhower's
deputy, General Mark Clark, met secretly with the top French resistance leaders from Algiers - Henri
d'Astier de la Vigerie, Jacques Lemaigre-Debreuil, José Aboulker, General Charles Mast and others -
in a farmhouse near Algiers (seen in the photo above) in late October 1942 to plan for the Allied invasion of Algiers.
General Clark arrived and departed by submarine.
A coup d'état
in Algiers was planned for 7 November, on the eve of the Allied invasion.
General Mast
advised General Clark to fetch French General Henri Giraud from France to take command of French forces in North Africa.
General Giraud,
commanding an army in the Netherlands, was captured while on reconnaissance in the Ardennes by the Germans in May
1940. Giraud escaped from imprisonment in Germany in April 1942, reached Switzerland and returned to unoccupied France.
The
Americans fetched Giraud, in Toulon, and took him to Gibraltar, where he met Eisenhower on 7 November. On 8 November,
Giraud agreed to take command of French troops in North Africa and on 9 November he agreed to go to Algiers.
Admiral Darlan, commander of all French armed forces, left France, made a tour of the
French colonies in Africa and arrived in Algiers on 4 November.
The Landings
American troops were conveyed to North
Africa by transport ships directly from Britain and the United States. They were joined by British troops in England.
Troops were conveyed to North Africa from England
and directly from the U. S.
Points of troop Allied landings in Morocco, a
French protectorate, and Algeria, a French department.
British forces landed
with American forces in Algiers. The British also commanded some of the air operations. Some British ships flew the American
flag and American insignia were painted on British planes. In fact, the landing force in Algiers was commanded by the British.
The Allies
included Australian, Canadian, Indian, Free French and Dutch soldiers.
New
York Times, Nov. 8, 1942
The planned coup d'etat by the Resistance in Algiers on
7 November seemed to have succeeded but was soon undone.
American and
British forces encountered opposition from French forces in Algiers, Oran and Casablanca as they tried to land on 8 November.
American soldiers of the 34th
Infantry Division landing at Surcouf (Boumerdes), 20 miles east of Algiers, on 9 November 1942.
It is not entirely clear what happened at
this point. In discussions with the Americans over the previous months, Vichy had agreed to join the Allies. The Americans
were to bring Giraud to Algiers on 8 November to take command. Giraud, however, did not go until 9 November. The presence
of Darlan in Algiers may have surprised the Americans. But it may not have been unexpected as some assumed Pétain would be there to
take the French over to the Allies. Darlan may have tried to persuade Pétain to go.
Admiral Darlan ordered the commander of French armed forces in North Africa,
General Alphonse Juin, to negotiate a cease-fire with the Americans.
A cease-fire was agreed in Algiers
late on 8 November. Allied forces suffered
some 850 casualties and French forces about 3,350 casualties.
German re-enforcements from Sicily were rushed to Tunisia - Tunis and Bizerta
- on 9 November. More were sent to Sfax and Gabes later in the month. The
Americans brought General Henri Giraud from Vichy France to Algiers on 9 November.
General Giraud placed himself under the
command of Admiral Darlan.
The Americans asked Admiral Darlan,
as head of French North and West Africa and commander of all French armed forces, to order French forces in North Africa to
cease fire.
Oran surrendered to the Americans on 10
November.
The Germans marched into unoccupied southern
France on 11 November. The Italians occupied Corsica.
Admiral Darlan ordered a general cease-fire
in French North Africa on 11 November.
Fighting in Casablanca ended on 11 November.
Admiral Darlan agreed to go over to the
Allies.
German and Italian forces, pursued by British
forces from Egypt, retreated across Libya into Tunisia.
Admiral Darlan ordered General Juin to lead French forces against the
Germans in Tunisia.
Admiral
Darlan accepted General Giraud as his deputy.
British troops landed east of Algiers and proceeded
east toward Tunisia to fight the Germans and Italians. German submarines sank four American troop carriers off Casablanca on 12 November. The Americans sank ten German
and Italian submarines by 17 November.
Map
shows Allied landing points in North Africa and German re-enforcements sent from Sicily to Tunisia.
Item
from the front page of The Charlotte News in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 9, 1942. The map assumed
the Allies, coming from the east and west, would trap the Germans and Italians in the Libyan Desert.
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Germans Occupy all of France
Until the British and Americans
landed in French North Africa, the Germans occupied only the northern and western halves of France -
and controlled the entire length of France along the Channel and Atlantic coasts.
In response to the Allied invasion of North
Africa, the Germans, anticipating an invasion of the continent by the Allies from North Africa, immediately occupied all of
France. They occupied Corsica with the Italians.
Three
maps of France:
- the first map, at top, is of France, divided into two zones, from
the time of the armistice with Germany in June 1940 to the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942;
- the two other maps, one in the center and the other at the bottom, are of France after the
Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942 and the German occupation of the entire country from November 1942 to
the summer of 1944. The Italians occupied the French Alps and the eastern French Riviera in July 1940; the eastern half of the
southeast France, including all of the Alps and most of the Riviera, and Corsica in November 1942. Following Italy's
surrender to the Allies in September 1943, the Germans occupied all areas occupied by the Italians and occupied Corsica.
The areas shaded in red - Flanders and the coasts - are military
zones controlled by the Germans.
French scuttle fleet in Toulon before Germans arrive, 27 November 1942
Heroic End of French Fleet Toulon
British Pathé newsreel (1942)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0_WgpUwII
Point du jour
Toulon 1942
Le sabordage de la Marine française
Documentaire
(2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuhto8qiEY
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Invasion
Part 1 of episode 1 of volume 1 of the CBS documentary series World War Two with Walter Cronkite (1981 -
1983) (1:28:53)
Includes interviews
with General Mark Wayne Clark
(Part 2 is
about the German commander Rommel and Part 3 is about the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944)
Removed from You Tube (Currently available only in an upload of extremely poor quality)
Alger 1942
Short
documentary (1972)
Le cinema et l'histoire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzAXvp_MS58
Alger
8 Novembre 1942
Brief description of events in Algiers from July 1942
to January 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQwNhcz74c
L'Opération Torch
Conference du
Jacques Karoubi le 21 juin 2013 (54:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKVxDE3baX8
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The Free French of Charles De Gaulle
General Charles De Gaulle, head of the Free French, calls on all in North Africa to join the Allies
Radio broadcast over the BBC from London on the evening of 8 November 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGSLE0Pyp9E
Details:
http://fresques.ina.fr/de-gaulle/fiche-media/Gaulle00308/debarquement-allie-en-afrique-du-nord.html
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French Admiral Jean-François Darlan, High Commissioner for North West Africa, left, and American General Mark
Clark, Eisenhower's deputy, right, agree on the American occupation of French North Africa. Darlan's villa in Algiers,
22 November 1942.
Admiral Darlan with American General Mark Clark
British Pathe newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbafa12iHT4
Commemorative ceremony in Algiers on 2 December 1942 - Admiral Jean François Darlan, French High Commissioner for
North Africa and West Africa and commander of French armed forces, left, with American General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA).
Commemorative ceremony in Algiers on 2 December 1942 - From left to right: French Admiral Jean François Darlan; American General Dwight D. Eisenhower; British
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet; and French General Henri Giraud. Note: There were
three Cunninghams prominent in the Second World War. Alan Cunningham, British army commander, and Andrew Cunningham,
British naval commander, were brothers, from Eire. Arthur Cunningham, British air commander, was Australian.
Darlan, Giraud, Eisenhower, Cunningham, others on December 2, 1945
Film footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W68IE7-5B0
Eisenhower, Giraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RunnxVgMpYw
Henri Giraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zL5_8aAIPg
Admiral Darlan
British Pathe newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbafa12iHT4
Admiral
Darlan
British
Pathe newsreel (1942)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_4WLkEwdp0
Débarquement
américain en Afrique du Nord en 1942
Archive video
Silent colour film includes much footage of Admiral Darlan
with Allies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h87n_So0Ztk
Why Strategy Matters
Lecture # 1 of the course Masters of War: History's
Greatest Strategic Thinkers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VNtnBgcX1Y
North Africa
Episode from the documentary series Battlefront
First allied invasion of WW2
North Africa
November 8, 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlrlJih5LD8
Operation
Torch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07GPvyn1Q4
Removed from You Tube
See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_PHWS4TVmc
Opération Torch
1942
Les alliés débarquent (Afrique Nord)
2eme Guerre Mondiale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jssRbQjMRtQ
Operation Torch
Lecture by Rick Jacobs at the National WW2 Museum (2012
- 2013)
The First Invasion: Operation Torch 75th Anniversary (2017) Lecture and talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np1cmQ6Kpx8
The Decision To Invade North Africa (TORCH) A book by Leo J. Meyer in 1990 Chapter
7. https://history.army.mil/books/70-7_07.htm
Darlan Assassinated
Admiral Darlan was assassinated in Algiers on 24 December 1942.
The Boston Post, December 25, 1942
In a book published in 1992,
Jean-Bernard d'Astier de la Vigerie recounts the assassination of Admiral Darlan
Fernand Olivier Bonnier
de la Chappelle, a resistant, royalist and supporter
of the Pretender to the French throne, the Count of Paris, assassinated Admiral Darlan in the hope of replacing him with
the Count of Paris and restoring the French monarchy. He was executed by firing squad within 48 hours.
Fernand Bonnier de la Chappelle, age 20, was born in Algiers, the son of Emmanuel
Bonnier de la Chappelle, a royalist and journalist.
L'affaire Pétain
Discours par Henri Guillemin
Partie 8. Avec Darlan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWFnjIDwoTo
Partie 9. Laval
réapparait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P_Lm3HnS-M
L'amiral
Darlan (1940 - 1942)
État Français
2000 ans d'Histoire sur France Inter de Patrice
Gélinet avec Bernard Costagliola (historien), 28.01.2010
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wop768XyXu4
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdhvkPujZX8
L'amiral Darlan à Alger (1942)
2000 ans d'histoire - Seconde Guerre Mondiale
L'assassinat d'amiral Darlan, 24 decembre 1942
Rendez-vous sur France
Inter de Patrick Pesnot avec Monsieur X (auteur). 19.06.1999
British for De Gaulle backed assassination
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OYH9Ps_XPE
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_851171&feature=iv&src_vid=4OYH9Ps_XPE&v=qrUkefSR9vE ou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQlJVzyxEF4
Funeral of Admiral Darlan
British Movietone newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt9C-K16ytA
Alger le 24 décembre 1942
Louis Hourcade
sur son ouvrage, l'histoire qui s'est nouée à Alger le 24 décembre 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhfvzJYku58
Qui
est Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle et qui a armé son bras?
Bénédicte Vergez Chaignon Les voix de l"histoire 2019
(23:44) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v56z_MDiQuM
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Le meurtre de l'amiral Darlan
Alain Decaux Raconte
Alger, 24 décembre 1942, l ' amiral Darlan est assassiné par Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle.
Alain Decaux revient sur le contexte de l'époque : la mise en place du débarquement allié en Afrique du nord.
Au nom de qui et pourquoi le jeune aristocrate a t-il tué l ' amiral
26 mai 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPKg1F2BhUY
DARLAN
LA FIN D ' UNE ÉNIGME
Par Geoffroy d ' Astier De La Vigerie
Petit-fils de Francois d'Astier de La Vigerie
Date de parution : 26/11/2020
Les dessous de l'assassinat de l'amiral François Darlan, le 24 décembre 1942 à Alger, aidé par le dossier d'instruction
sur lequel il travailla à partir de 2016, date de son accessibilité.
Les dessous de l'assassinat de l'amiral Darlan
Passé-Présent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2YQm4deV4
Les 3 frères d ' Astier de la Vigerie
Geoffroy d'Astier de La Vigerie
La Résistance des trois frères François, Henri et Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie
Compagnons de la Libération, si différents par leur rôle mais unis dans le même combat pour la libération de la France.
Soirée culturelle du musée de l ' Ordre de la Libération
16 décembre 2021
1:26:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2am_HtQJy8&t=133s
François d'ASTIER de LA VIGERIE
OFFICIER ET FRANCAIS LIBRE
Geoffroy d'Astier de La Vigerie
Siège de la Fondation de la France Libre
19 janvier 2022
1:35:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMV__B_ids
Emmanuel d ' Astier de La Vigerie
1900 - 1969
Fondateur et chef de Libération
Par Geoffroy d ' Astier de La Vigerie, auteur de Emmanuel
d ' Astier de La Vigerie, Combattant de la Résistance et de la Liberté
20 decembre 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-d71MD1dQ&t=6s
Emmanuel d ' Astier de La Vigerie
https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i13078161/emmanuel-d-astier-de-la-vigerie-a-propos-d-edouard-leclerc
Pierre Raynaud
Sur l'exécution de Darlan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkUtyfPjus
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Casablanca
Movie
1942
Part 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AmVA48lpmA
Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntl2-W1Oi8I
The
Eastern Front and the Military Context, 1941 - 1942
Lecture by Antony Beevor
Yad Vashem Museum and the Documentation Center of North African Jewry
in World War 2
Jersusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3QEO-kioc
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The above map
is incorrect. Algeria and French Morocco were no longer under Axis influence by mid-November 1942.
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"They're
Going To Get It!" - Roosevelt
British Pathé newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_V6tL6QRQs
Annual State of the
Union Address to the U. S. Congress by President Roosevelt
7 January 1943
Entire address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpVIWmgNb8s
Transcript
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16386
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Casablanca, Morocco, January 1943
The First Allied Conference - U. S., Britain
and France
Admiral Darlan's deputy,
General Henri Giraud, succeeded Darlan as head of the French armed forces.
General Charles
De Gaulle and the Free French (French forces in exile based in London) objected to Giraud's leadership.
Eventually, Giraud
and De Gaulle agreed to work together as co-leaders of the French military, with Giraud the senior commander.
Le Général Henri Giraud,
le président américain
Franklin Roosevelt, le Général Charles De Gaulle et le premier ministre
britannique Winston Churchill au conférence de Casablanca le 14 au 24 janvier 1943.
Giraud et De Gaulle
Churchill,
Roosevelt - Casablanca Meeting
British Pathé newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0cojFJ5UYc
The
President's Historic Trip to North Africa
Silent
color film footage by US Army Signal Corps (15:37)
President Roosevelt visits Casablanca, in January
1943, reviews the troops, meets Prime Minister Churchill and General Henri Giraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46VIePD7Ks
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkrq5pctBO0
Le Général Giraud
(1940 - 1944)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnhEgL8eZY8
Le général Giraud (1942 - 1944)
2000 ans d'histoire - Seconde Guerre Mondiale
(2005)
2 parties
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdz4odozek
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_677605&feature=iv&src_vid=4pdz4odozek&v=kb1ToYlyj6s
Le Général Giraud (1940-1944)
Seconde Guerre Mondiale
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt-EjcNqUks
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erjwPfhrY60
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7mdPWGf4Jk
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl819YCLKGY
General Charles de Gaulle and General
Henri Giraud
Newsclip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1p39ZkVVzo
De Gaulle & Giraud (1942-1944)
Seconde
Guerre Mondiale
2000 ans d'Histoire sur France Inter
de Patrice Gélinet avec Michèle Cointet (historienne) 14 - 11 - 2005
2 clips:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdz4odozek
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb1ToYlyj6s
De Gaulle and Giraud inspect French forces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF4DgecJeZw
Casablanca Conference, January 1943
Churchill
attends Casablanca Conference
US President Roosevelt and British PM Churchill with General Giraud and General
DeGaulle
Stock
Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wamuexZwqQ4
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
North Africa 1943
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhY2-vPt9qk
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJuud9cCtWI
The Soviets and Chinese were invited to the conference in Casablanca but did not attend.
At Casablanca, the three Allies - Britain,
France and the U. S. - ageed to
(1) joint leadership of the French armed forces
under Giraud and De Gaulle;
(2) maintain aide to the Soviet Union;
(3) retake Tunisia, invade Sicily and then
Italy;
(4) plan the invasion of occupied France; and
(5) demand "unconditional surrender" from
the Axis.
By
late 1943, De Gaulle and the Free French had sidelined
Giraud and De Gaulle was the sole and undisputed leader of the French armed forces and many resistants in France. Giraud
retired from the army.
Casablanca
was the first of five highly publicized Allied conferences during the war.
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The second big conference was held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 1943 - Britain, China and the U. S.;
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the third conference was held in Teheran, Iran in November and December 1943 - Britain, the Soviet
Union and the U. S.;
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the fourth conference was in Yalta in the Crimea in the Ukraine (USSR) in February 1945 - Britain,
the Soviet Union and the U. S.; and
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the fifth conference was held in Potsdam, Germany in July and August 1945 - Britain,
the Soviet Union and the U. S.
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Western Europe
Americans bomb Germany for
the first time Daylight raid
B-24 Liberators bomb the Germany Navy's North
Sea coastal port of Wilhelmshaven on January 27, 1943. The
port built submarines and repaired navy ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgO6DX_9z0I
Victory through Air Power
1943
Walt Disney animated film presented by Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky, Russian aviation pioneer who advocated
strategic aerial bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmd7Xisflnk -
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Finishing
off the Axis in North Africa
Source: Department of History, US Military Academy
Areas in yellow indicate the areas of combat beyond the Libyan
frontiers, in Egypt to the east from 1940 to 1943 and in Tunisia to the west in 1942 and 1943.
Map shows the movement of armies in the North African campaign
from the Second Battle of El Alamein, in the east, and Operation Torch, in the west, in 1942, to the capture of Tunis in 1943.
British troops march on Tripoli
The Tampa Daily Times, 23 January 1943
Tripoli
British
Pathé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddOLa3ukqHo
Churchill
on tour
After Casablanca
British Pathé
newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU62RXZkdR0
Montgomery halted his pursuit of Rommel's retreat
in Tripoli. Rommel reached Tunisia and attacked
and defeated the Americans, coming from Algeria, at the Kasserine Pass in February 1943. The battle was Rommel's last
victory. Rommel then attacked the Eighth
Army, in his last offensive, in the Battle
of Medenine, on 6 March 1943. The offensive was halted and Rommel withdrew. Hitler recalled Rommel, who returned to Germany
on 9 March.
The
Baltimore News Post, 5 March 1943
The German army in Tunisia surrendered on 13 May. -------------------
The
War in Tunisia
British
Pathé
Mareth and
beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7n7PWpZsGs
Tunisia News From Cameramen in the
Front Line British Pathé Eighth Army links up with Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_6Rqi6OOGk
Tunisian Victory 1944 documentary
by Frank Capra and John Huston (75 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioS7JQWqrjw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fsmgJoPr4
At
the Front in North Africa with the U. S. Army Filmed in Algeria and Tunisia by the U. S. Army Signal Corps in November
and December 1942 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3bIVzsMqg
Kasserine Pass
and the Tunisian Campaign Rommel defeats the Americans in battle Rommel's
last victory in the field Lecture by Rick Jacobs at the National WW2 Museum (57:32)
Uploaded
in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLnzcHqEnPQ
Sea and Sand Episode 9 of
the 1952 documentary series Victory
At Sea
Allied
landings and the defeat of the Axis in North Africa, 1942 - 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itP09mGQkL4&feature=relmfu
Tunisia Episode
1 of Season 5 of the documentary series Battlefield (1:43:03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJnQZ1b7zSk
The Battle of Tunisia
Episode
from the documentary series Greatest Tank Battles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sBQmtTTTME
L'Axe dans la tourmente
Documentaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ73pfJ-XGY
The
North African Campaign
Episode
from the documentary series FRONTLINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4bt-yvPL0
North
Africa
Episode from the documentary
series The Lost Evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MISQPs5gsi0
German Panzer IV
Rommel's Last Stand
Documentary from the Patton 360 series about
the American entry in the war against the Germans, 1943
Americans
are pushed back by the Germans in Tunisia but with reinforcements they defeat the Germans and end the war in North Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSm5YnE6WHw&feature=related
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Bombers over North Africa
1942
The
AAF in the Tunisian campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOf7pW5Wkc
B-25 Mitchell Bombers in the campaign in Egypt and Tunisia
1942 - 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrF6e_mP1U
North Africa
November
1942 - May 1943
Chapter # 11 of Volume 1
of 1953 U. S. Air Force documentary series The Air Force Story
(14:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m95-4H34T0Y
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYWVZxf2KbY
Tank Busters
War Pictoral News
(No. 104)
British
newsreel from early 1943
Commentary by Rex Keating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYDD9HlBTVY
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCZQpHLoSt0
or (with a different narrator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQeeKs0QFC4
RAF Hurricane II D Tank Busters
Newsreel 1943 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5xN8hlGLo
Battle of North Africa
Episode from the documentary Battlefield series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RCw8OIrlAs
The Desert Air Force
Episode from the 1961 Australian documentary series ANZAC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dpnn_jjk9o
Victory March in Tunis
20 May 1943
British Pathe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGNfxHIZxdw
Les Forces françaises libreshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxSXDqbGZxs
aussi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtdRyqDigs
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Rommel's Enigma
Episode from the documentary series Shadows of the Third Reich -
Secrets
of War
Narrated by Charlton Heston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ANMyR9d1I
Afrika
Korps
Documentary dubbed in French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCCP_cWlB2g Rommels Schatz
Doku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXAZibgf5A
Treasure of the Desert Fox
Episode
11 of the documentary series Treasure Hunters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WelQRWhMfTo
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World War Two
1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly
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The Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid
Charlie and his Orchestra
Karl ("Charlie") Schwedler, singer
Lutz Templin, bandleader
Lyrics by the Propagandaministerium
Broadcast from Berlin
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A Call to Arms by Field Marshal Smuts
1943
British Pathé
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God Bless America
Kate Smith
July 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0&t=9s
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