Africa, Prelude to Victory

  • Documentary
12/4/1942
18

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Covers the American planning and execution of the great Allied Military Manoeuvre in North Africa.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Now Id hate to be pedantic, but during this entire piece of wartime propaganda, the word British isnt used once. Despite the fact that they had been fighting Rommels formidable Afrika Korps for months and forced him, disheveled, from the crucial Suez Canal, this rather jingoistically American feature completely ignores those efforts. Instead it focuses on some grandstanding of American might against the treacherous and duplicitous Vichy forces whilst deriding the doddery old Petain or local chieftains in Algeria and Tunisia whom it clearly suggests are only in it for themselves. How dare these beys conclude that since they didnt actually invite anyone to invade their shores in the first place, they might as well live with the ones they are ...

        July 24, 2025

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