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31 October 1943 Part 3

Summary

October troop welfare

Location Details

Normandy

Diary Entry

31 October 1943 October troop welfare

Forty-four films, 519 screenings, 259,589 admissions in permanent cinemas. Strength Through Joy companies served 319th,716th and Normandy Battle Group; four theatre companies for 319th, two for Normandy Battle Group, twenty-eight playing days for the latter [other figures faint]. Front Bookshop 7 b served 709th, requested four book crates and sold approximately 6,000 Reichsmarks. Vocational Soldiers’ Letters distributed: The Foreign Trade Merchant, Part 2, and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Also: Soldiers’ Pages for Celebrations and Leisure, issue 10; Madeleine and Louise; The British Bombing War. Arko 118 borrowed eleven Rosenberg book-donation crates.

Source of Information 

T-314 Roll 1604, T314_R1604_English_Translation.docx. 31 October 1943 | Source PDF pages 1129. Selected island-related text; document or report date governs placement.

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