# 1956-05-21 France Digs in For Total War in Algeria

"France Digs In for Total Algerian War" - 400,000 French troops pinned down by guerilla attacks - armed depots dot Algeria landscape.

- Kind: Newsreel
- Year: 1956
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Universal Newsreel
- Genres: War, News
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1956-05-21_France_Digs_in_For_Total_War_in_Algeria.ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Universal Newsreel
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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