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Title:CAMOUFLAGE; PRESS CONFERENCE WITH GENERAL ALEXANDER [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 367/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The mobile Number 2 Section, 5th Corps Camouflage Section at work in Thibar, Tunisia. A press conference at Ain-Beida, Algeria.
Description: 9 March. Corporal D Cramp from London at work spraying a bivouac. The petrol-driven spray machine is in the background. Tents being sprayed.
11 March. General Alexander and Air Vice Marshal Coningham addressing representatives of the press. Brigadier General Crane of the US Army with Brigadier Airey and Major-General McCreary, listening to General Alexander. General Alexander talking to Major Pilkington. General Alexander salutes the correspondents. Air Vice Marshal Coningham.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Black, A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
McCreery, Richard Loudon (person)
Coningham, Arthur (person)
British Army, V Corps (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Ain Beida, Algeria (geography)
Thibar, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)