Crowd listening to Gen. Charles de Gaulle in Algiers, Algeria, 1943
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Photograph. Large crowd listening to Gen. Charles de Gaulle deliver a speech. Personal caption on reverse: "MM-BAK-43-4670." Official caption on reverse: "Sig. Corps Rad. Tele-Radioed 11-11-43. Armistice Day! View of tremendous crowd listening in earnest to Armistice Day address in Algiers by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, chairman of French committee of national liberation. Medaled veterans of World War I are seated in foreground." Algiers, Algeria. 11 November 1943
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From the service of Brigadier General Terence John Tully, a West Point graduate, Signal Officer during the African landings, Chief Signal Officer, Allied Force Headquarters Africa/Italy for all Mediterranean operations. Tully served with the Signal Corps in Italy and North Africa documenting the 5th Army specifically. Later he was Commander of Camp Crowder, Missouri.
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Alger
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36.833
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3.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
People--Algeria
Buildings--Algeria
Veterans--French
Audiences--Algeria