Photos 7-12

[edwest]

Since this is a wartime photo, the caption may be for propaganda purposes.




Ed

[Modeldad]

Ed, not sure what you mean.

The text may be a bit off, but are we to doubt the date? Tripoli, where Castelbenito is located, fell in early 1943.

[edwest]

The United Nations was mentioned. I don't know if this term is general or specific. If specific, I'd like to point out the UN was not formed until 1945. That's all.



Ed

[Modeldad]

The reference to the Allies as the "United Nations" predates the picture. It was first used by Roosevelt on January 1, 1942 in a declaration titled "Joint Declaration of the United Nations on Cooperation for Victory"

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16169


He moved to create a "grand alliance" against the Axis powers through "The Declaration of the United Nations," January 1, 1942, in which all nations fighting the Axis agreed not to make a separate peace and pledged themselves to a peacekeeping organization (now the United Nations) on victory.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html

[Franek Grabowski]

I have seen articles referring to United Nations well before United Nations were officially declared. I recall the victory in Tunisia being described as a victory of United Nations!

[edwest]

Thank you, Franek.



Ed