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Royal Air Force planes bombing German armor and troop concentrations in El Alamein, Egypt.

Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel discuss plan with two other officers. Map depicts movement of German Division from South. Royal Air Force pilots boarding planes. Planes take off from airfield. Formation of American planes over enemy. Antiaircraft guns fired. Aircraft overhead bombs German armor and troop concentrations. Infantry advances under artillery cover as tanks continue the drive. Heavy explosions in the battlefield. Explosions throw billows of smoke. Light tanks advance. Dead soldiers in battlefield. British Field Marshal General Bernard Montgomery watches advancing tanks. Marshal Erwin Rommel with his officers. Artillery fire continues with advancing tanks. RAF plane bombs German armor. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052601
German Afrika Korps socialize with Egyptians during a feast in Siwa Oasis (WW2)

Map showing Egypt, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea in German during World War II. . German Afrika Korps troops mobilize to El Alamein, Egypt. Afrika Korps anti-aircraft gun vehicles and Kübelwagen move in the Sahara Desert. A German soldier uses binoculars to observe surroundings. Houses in Siwa Oasis, Egypt. Axis armored column entering Siwa. A Kübelwagen drives past palm trees. A German 8-Wheeled Heavy Armored Car Sd.Kfz.232 follows afterwards. A car that appears to have been heavily modified for desert travel is seen. Egyptian men raise their hands as they watch the arrival of the armored column. Afrika Korps soldiers build a desert trench with sandbags. They assemble and adjust a 37mm flak gun. A soldier sorts shells. German soldiers attend a feast given by the Egyptian sheik of Siwa. A servant scoops and serves soup in bowl. Egyptian locals and German soldiers dine together. A man pours coffee from a Dallah coffee pot. A German soldier and an Egyptian man (with bandaged hand) talk to one another during the feast. Egyptian man offers grapes to Axis soldiers. Soldier eating grapes. Man carries a large box of grapes. A man and two boys load boxes of produce at the back of a truck. Shadow of a German soldier taking off his clothes. German soldier taking off his shoes. Nude German soldiers dive and swim in the lake of the Oracle.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080079
Planning and training for invasion of North Africa in World War II

'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. A teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. Defense workers arriving at production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C.Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. Workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing). Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Yards filled with newly manufactured weapons.War materiel and troops moving on railroad trains in America and Britain. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodby to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers on troop ships underway. The entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and stomp feet. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case.

Date: 1942, June 18
Duration: 8 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033505
Role of the Jeep in U.S. military operations during World War II.

A U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Waco CG-4A-WO glider is seen descending and landing in a grass field. Upon touchdown, its front pops open and and an army jeep drives out. USAAF C-47 aircraft are seen next, offloading jeeps pulling small artillery pieces, and infantry who move rapidly from the parked aircraft. Jeeps traversing a high hump in a dirt road. A jeep towing an M-3 Antitank Gun 37mm, and others driving through underbrush and bouncing over rough road while towing 37mm guns and trailers. Soldiers stepping from jeeps to set up machine guns. American soldiers playing a game of horse and rider, during a break in duties. Soldiers setting up mortars. Jeeps driving through bodies of water. Two M4A1 (76)W Sherman tanks, with cast steel hulls, drive into a stream. Troops setting up several 37mm guns on a river bank. Two soldiers in a communications jeep. Army officers perusing a map laid out on the hood of a jeep. U.S. field artillerymen using periscopic binoculars on tripods, to spot and direct gunfire. Military vehicles, including jeeps, moving across desert terrain. Artillery crews firing M59 (M2 Long Tom) 155mm guns. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft flying overhead. Jeeps in various roles, bouncing along in the desert and laying smoke screens. Jeeps equipped with M3 anti-aircraft guns and others with stretchers for wounded affixed to their sides. U.S. Army Ford GPA "Seep" amphibious jeeps plunging into water and continuing on as boats. A jeep production and assembly line in a U.S. factory showing stages of assembly and finished jeeps driving out of the plant into yards containing hundreds of them. A convoy of jeeps driving over a bridge, and others carrying a U.S. military brass band in a parade in England. A Hollywood actress (Gloria Swanson?) being lifted into a jeep by several men. Glimpse of an unidentified actress with an American soldier, in a jeep. Hollywood stars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy clowning in the front seat of a jeep with Desi Arnaz and two women riding in the back. Several jeeps carrying these and other Hollywood personalities during a war bond parade in Washington DC. The Capitol looming in the background as the jeeps move away from it toward the camera. Jeeps being prepared for transport to overseas destinations. Some being enclosed in wooden crates and placed on rail cars. Jeeps being hauled by cranes and placed aboard ships. Landing crafts mechanized (LCMs) transporting infantry and vehicles, including jeeps. An M4A1 Sherman tank driving out of a landing craft into surf. A jeep being driven onto beach at Adak,in the Aleutians,from a landing craft of the USS J.Franklin Bell (AP-34), in 1942. In 1943, this transport ship was reclassified as APA-16.) American troops with jeep on a South Pacific island in World War 2. A soldier on motorcycle, skids in mud on road in North Africa, and jeeps drive past him. American soldiers ride camels and some drive in a jeep near the Great pyramid and Sphinx in Egypt. Jeeps seen in China, with Generals Joseph Stilwell and Claire Chennault. One parked next to a Flying Tiger P-40 airplane. Soldiers in a jeep in Alaska, next to a tent and sign pointing to "Tokyo." Local tribesmen literally carrying a jeep, on long poles, across a river in Timor. General Douglas MacArthur, accompanied by staff officers, being driven in a jeep along a jungle road in New Guinea, past a line of local tribesmen. Wendell Wilkie, serving as Ambassador-at-large, during the war, speaks to U.S. officers in a jeep. Britain's King George VI in a jeep followed by another carrying Queen Elizabeth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt riding in a jeep to review troops. He removes his hat as they pass the American flag. Sign on a building in North Africa reads "Bizerte." General George S. Patton, standing in a jeep during a victory parade in North Africa. Soldiers at an outdoor religious service during the war with the hood of a jeep serving as a make shift altar.Various views of jeeps driving with soldiers in them.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042283
British Prime minister Churchill inspects artillery and takes lunch with airmen in Egypt during World War II.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits British troops in Egypt during World War II. Prime Minister Churchill arrives and is surrounded by soldiers. He raises his hat. Churchill inspects British artillery. Artillery being fired. Churchill takes lunch with British airmen at a headquarters. He drinks from a glass. Churchill with South African Prime Minister General Jan Smuts and another man and woman with their baby in a pram. Prime minister Churchill plays with the child seated in a pram. The baby is wearing a hat with a "V" for victory pin on it. Churchill holds the child. Clip closes with public service announcement (PSA) with message encouraging viewers to "Help your country! Buy war bonds and stamps at this theatre" superimposed on an image of bomber aircraft and the Statue of Liberty.

Date: 1942
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065999
Supplies and reinforcements arrive for British Eighth Army fighting against Germans in El Alamein, Egypt.

Supply and reinforcements arrive for British Eighth Army fighting against Germans in El Alamein. Troops from South Africa, India and Thailand disembark from ships in harbor. Tanks unloaded from ships. Sherman M4 tanks delivered from U.S. Military vehicles and train loaded with supplies heading for battle front guarded by planes overhead. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel with his men. Italian tanks unloaded from ship. Planes attack German ships underway at sea bringing supplies. Royal Navy men inside submarines target German ships. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052594