See how Allied commanders Eisenhower and Montgomery trapped Rommel to end Axis North Africa campaigns
See how Allied commanders Eisenhower and Montgomery trapped Rommel to end Axis North Africa campaigns
An Anglo-American force landing in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942. By the following June it had linked with British forces in Tunisia and driven the Germans from North Africa. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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Transcript
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NARRATOR: Meanwhile, British and American troops, led by General Eisenhower, landed in French North Africa, and were met by a hail of bullets from the pro-Nazi French army. Swiftly crushing the opposition, they moved on to trap Rommel . . .
between themselves and Montgomery's desert army, which was advancing from the east.
Six months after the landings, the Germans were finished in Africa, and Eisenhower and Montgomery's troops joined hands. It had been a decisive victory--one which had cost the Axis a million men.
[Music out]
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, British and American troops, led by General Eisenhower, landed in French North Africa, and were met by a hail of bullets from the pro-Nazi French army. Swiftly crushing the opposition, they moved on to trap Rommel . . .
between themselves and Montgomery's desert army, which was advancing from the east.
Six months after the landings, the Germans were finished in Africa, and Eisenhower and Montgomery's troops joined hands. It had been a decisive victory--one which had cost the Axis a million men.
[Music out]