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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
In 1942, Casablanca was the principal Vichy-controlled port on the Atlantic (all of France′s Atlantic coast having been occupied by Germany since 1940) and the most important Vichy-controlled naval base after Toulon. Naval gunners manned the El Hank coastal artillery battery of four 194 mm (7.6 in) guns and four 138 mm (5.4 in) guns.
Casablanca Conference of 1943; United States Department of State Foreign Relations of the United States. Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine The Conferences at Washington, 1941–1942, and Casablanca, 1943
"As Time Goes By" is a jazz song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became famous when it featured in the 1942 film Casablanca, performed by Dooley Wilson as Sam. The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film [1] (surpassed only by "Over the Rainbow" sung by Judy Garland).
In November 1942, the British and Americans organised a 3-pronged attack on North Africa (Operation Torch), of which the westernmost one was at Casablanca. The Task Force landed before daybreak on 8 November 1942, at three points in Morocco: Asfi ( Operation Blackstone ), Fedala ( Operation Brushwood , the largest landing with 19,000 men), and ...
The landings were carried out by the 47th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army and took place on the morning of 8 November 1942 as part of a larger operation to capture Casablanca. Flyer that was distributed by the Allied forces in the streets of Casablanca, calling for civilians to cooperate with the Allied forces
Time magazine in 2012 described Casablanca as "the best movie ever made". [61] Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942) Another patriotic Curtiz film was This Is the Army (1943), a musical adapted from the stage play with a score by Irving Berlin. [62]
The 1942 landings were encouraged by the nationalists in French Morocco, who hoped the Allies would assist in the fight for Moroccan independence. [6] After Moroccan nationalists in French Morocco then found to have received letters from Ibrahim al-Wazzani, a nationalist in Spanish Morocco who was involved in aiding the Axis powers, the Allies ...