Title:ALLIED FORCES IN GIOVANNI BERTA, LIBYA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 283/1-1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: British troops in Giovanni Berta, Libya, after the Italian retreat.
Description: Father Lorenzo Gaggino, the only Italian left in the town on the arrival of British troops, coming down the steps of his church. He converses with British officers. They are joined by a local woman trying to sell eggs. A mud-spattered portrait of Mussolini is crushed by the wheels of a British truck.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Herbert (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gaggino, Lorenzo (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (person)
Keywords: Berta, Libya (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
