Records world-wide war activities. Reel 5: (1943) The victory at Stalingrad is celebrated. FDR, Churchill, and de Gaulle confer at Casablanca. US and British troops meet in Tunisia; Gen. Eisenhower greets Gen. Montgomery. Bizerte, Tunis, and many German prisoners are captured. Sicily and Italy are invaded. Mussolini is ousted. The Italian fleet surrenders to Gen. Eisenhower. Naples greets US troops. ...

As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces away from Sicily, and two weeks into the real invasion still expected an attack in Greece. This extraordinary ...

Contains photographs taken by John J. Garvey (donor’s father), who enlisted in the US Army in 1939 and served in 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He fought in North African Campaign, in the invasion of Sicily and took part in the D-Day crossing. Corporal Garvey’s unit liberated the Hurlach concentration camp, a Kaufering IV sub camp of Dachau, on April 30, 1945. Includes a photograph showing ...

"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should ...

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