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B-25 accompanied by six Pursuits in Tunisia.

Six Pursuit planes flying against white clouds in Tunisia. B-25 aircraft under wing. B-25 flying. Six Pursuits flying. Eight Pursuits in formation. B-25 dropping bombs. Six Pursuits in background. Bomb bursts on city roads. B-25 accompanied by six Pursuits. B-25 dropping bombs. Bombs falling through open bomb bay doors. Doors close. B-25 accompanied by seven pursuits dropping bombs and flying. Ten B-25s flying. Formation of B-25s with occasional bursts of flak. Cloud formations. Bomb bursts on road. A-20s aircrafts flying. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, January 7
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034862
U.S. Army Air Forces P-38s take off from air base in Algeria during World War II

A dozen U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 lightning aircraft, of the 14th Fighter Group, departing from Telergma airfield in Algeria, during World War 2. They make formation takeoffs in flights of four. Views of them in formations overhead. (Their mission is in support of the Allied Italian campaign.)

Date: 1943, June 21
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034872
Allied Forces Build up in Algeria to prepare for Spring offensive against German forces in Tunisia during World War II

At start of film, Allied forces are digging in after retreating from counterattacks by German forces in Tunis, during World War 2.. Rains create mud everywhere. A Lockheed P-38 fighter plane parked in foreground. Ground crews use shovels to free nose wheel of a B-24 Liberator bomber with engines running. A truck tows a C-47 transport plane from mud. Army trucks travel over road inundated by running streams. Soldiers standing in a jeep submerged in water. M2 tanks stuck in mud. Airmen huddled around an outdoor fire. P-38 fighter aircraft parked in the background. Soldiers eating around an outdoor fire. Animated map shows Allied battle lines stabilized in Algerian mountains, while German forces occupy the plains in Tunisia. German artillery batteries firing. British troops sheltering in damaged building. Allied wounded being transported atop, as well as inside a field ambulance. Interior of a transport plane configured for evacuation of wounded on litters. U.S. airmen including a woman in leather flying jacket tend to the wounded. Wounded being transferred from an airplane to an ambulance. British patrols moving through the night. Heavy artillery firing. British soldiers silhouetted at dawn. They return carrying a wounded comrade on a litter. The British soldiers ("Tommies.") trying to clean mud from themselves and their weapons before heading out on patrols again at dusk. Allied soldiers moving on mules in a long line to obtain needed food and supplies. More views of the interminable mud. A British Hawker Hunter fighter plane taking off. A formation of Hawker Hurricanes peeling off to engage German aircraft. Closeup of one rolling over. A German Heinkel 111 bomber being attacked and trailing smoke. Pilot pressing gun firing button in cockpit and a German Dornier Do 17 bomber hit as British fighter plane passes it in cloud of black smoke. The German plane diving to crash in a fireball on the ground. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers taking off and flying in formation. Formation of American B-17 bombers in flight. The American planes dropping bombs on Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. Gunners in the bombers firing machine guns at attacking German fighter planes as their bombs keep dropping. Back on land in Algeria, mud still halted any Allied advance. Animated map showing both Allied and German forces building up on their respective sides of the front. Supply lines illustrated all the way back to factories in the United States and Britain. Allied war plants making bombers and munitions. Allied Soldiers assembling Army vehicles at a port. Lockheed lightning fighters being rolled out of a factory. Sign reading "Railroad Equipment Assembly Plant No. 1." Complete trains from locomotives to freight cars being completely assembled, loaded with freight and sent on their way. A formation of P-38 aircraft equipped with long range fuel tanks being ferried in flight from Brazil. It is led by a B-17 flying fortress bomber providing navigation. British Spitfire and Hawker Hunter airplanes heading to the front an airfield in Gibralter. A caterpillar tractor moving earth for a new road at the front. Trucks dropping materials for the road bed as soldiers with shovels smooth them on the surface. Soldiers installing Mardsen Matting pierced steel planking for an airfield surface as C-47 transport planes operate on the field. Crates of food supplies being unloaded at a port. War materiel stored in a large yard at a port.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033509
Mohammed Ben Aarafa is installed as the new sultan of Morocco by French colonial authorities

French colonial authorities install Mohammed Ben Aarafa as the new sultan of Morocco (a French protectorate). Moroccan policemen frisk arrested supporters for the growing Moroccan independence movement. Policemen take away an arrested Moroccan man. Moroccan Berber tribesmen converge together. Honor guards participate during the ceremony placing Ben Aarafa on the Alouite Throne. Moroccans salute to the new sultan Mohammad Ben Aarafa. General Augustin Guillaume, the French resident-general of Morocco, presents the felicitations of his government to the new sultan in the Dar al-Makhzen palace in Rabat, Morocco.

Date: 1953, August 21
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041645
View of the Tangier harbor and various French, German and Dutch and Italian ships in the harbor in Morocco.

SS Baloeran moves towards Tangier harbor in Morocco. Houses beyond the harbor. A tug boat, manned by uniformed sailors, viewed from a ship. Passengers transferring from a smaller ship to the Holland American Liner SS Rotterdam. Views from the deck of the Rotterdam. Various French, German and Italian ships in the harbor. A ship underway in sea. Waves hitting shore. View of sea from a hill on the harbor. Aerial view of the harbor. A Moroccan man waving a cloth to signal to a light house on a hill top.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024257
Steamship passengers are ferried by rowboat to Tangier harbor, Morocco, where several ships are seen, anchored.

Ocean liner passengers being ferried to shore in rowboats to Tangier harbor in Morocco. A man selling Moroccan baskets and articles in a boat. The passengers pass by a destroyer and a gunboat, bearing "M1" on its hull, anchored in the harbor. As they enter the pier, they pass a light house on a rock in the water. A crowd of Moroccans is seen milling about in the port area. A German submarine enters the harbor with the number "25" on its hull. As it anchors, it is boarded by officials who converse with the crew on deck and examine papers. A ship billowing dense black smoke is seen in the harbor.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024258