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Two senior officers check and sign documents in office of Command of the Aeronautics in Morocco.
Soldiers stand outside entrance of the Moroccan Air Command Building in Morocco. A French Air Force officer comes out and greets arriving U.S. Air Force officers. All officers, including an American Air Force Brigadier General and French counterpart, sit around a table. They discuss and mutually sign some type of agreement. The French General points out areas of interest on a map of Morocco fixed on a wall behind the table. He marks some places on the map. All others watch. Note: The U.S. Air Force General wears an "Ike" jacket, while the officers accompanying him all wear the class A "blouse" jacket.
French Cavalry Unit maneuvers in Morocco. Tanks and motorcycles in formation. Colonel orders unit to mount up and proceed
French motorized cavalry unit with tanks and motorcycles in formation, in Morocco. The commanding officer, a French Colonel, orders the unit to mount up and move out. Tank crews and motorcyclists take up their operating positions. Column of tanks and motorcycles moves beside what appear to be ancient ruins.
French soldier talks with Moroccans in tent encampment.
French soldier talking with Moroccans in a tent encampment. He talks with an old man and his sons. Slate states that the old father puts his family under the protection of the winners. Moroccan women climb into an open truck. Nearby stand several French Moroccan troops, wearing the fez, and armed with rifles and bayonets. The women are covered from head to toe. Tents on the ground. Houses in background. Local men stand around tents. A soldier stands with a gun on a hill and look towards the tents.
French and Spanish troops land near Rif city of Alhucemas. General Saro directs operations. Battle scenes from trenches.
Morocco during the Rif War or Second Moroccan War. Arrival and landing of troops reinforcing French and Spanish forces in the Rif city of Al Hoceima (Alhucemas) protected by the firing of French and Spanish naval warships. Beachhead scenes of landing craft, troops and supplies. General Saro directs the operation. Spanish troops in sandbagged position. General Billot and Colonel Freydenberg look through binoculars to observe progress of the battle. Soldiers fire from a trench located on top of a high hill. Enemy soldiers climb the hill amidst firing. A French officer walks behind a line of entrenched French and Moroccan soldiers and inspects them. A French officer looks through binoculars on the battlefield near Taunat, while his troops fire from trenches behind him. Troops seen at end of battle. Special credit is given to French aviator Mezerques for heroically firing into the Rif trenches. He is seen smoking a cigarette and smiling.
Resident-General of French Morocco , Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour visits Berber tribes in mountains of Morocco
French Resident-General of Morocco, Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour, in exercise of diplomacy, visits Berber Tribes in middle atlas region of Morocco ( el mars boulmane ). He arrives in a 1953 Oldsmobile convertible automobile, driving up a rugged dirt road. The General greets several tribal leaders and converses with them. The tribal leaders escort General de Latour to a large tent, where he sits and converses with the most senior leaders. They talk and eat inside the tent. Crowds of tribesmen observe from around the tent, at some distance, outside. Mountains seen in the background. Tribesmen play musical instruments. Women in decorative costume dance.
French Officers issue rifles and bayonets to Berber Tribesmen (goumiers) in Morocco
A building in Morocco, bearing a French military logo and seal. Berber tribesmen are assembled in formation, with a flag. French millitary officers march a road to the assembly place. A contingent of French Foreign Legion in formation. The ranking French Officer shakes hands with tribal leaders and then begins issuing rifles and bayonets to the tribal leaders. Other French officers continue issuing arms to the ramainder of the assembled tribesmen (goumiers). A Legionnaire looks from high vantage point, over town spread out below.
