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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.
33 Squadron fliers lower bomb under the wing of Hurricane and camouflage an intelligence truck in Tunisia, North Africa.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. British fliers move furniture and drink outside a building. The fliers sit outside British Headquarters. A truck filled with fliers drive up. All jump out of the truck and go inside. A British flier puts a sign on a door. The sign reads "33 Sqd OPD". The fliers lower long-range fuel tank attached under a wing of a British fighter aircraft Hawker Hurricane. They carry the fuel tank away. The fliers camouflaging a intelligence truck. A dog at the entrance. Fliers work on roof and sides of the truck. A flier camouflages a truck with branches and twigs.
British fliers man a machine gun on the trailer and a bombed building in the background in Tunisia, North Africa.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. A bombed building. A truck with a machine gun on a trailer drives past the building. British fliers jump out and set up the gun. The fliers man the machine gun on the trailer. The fliers work quickly. The bombed building in the background.
British fliers load ammunition belts into guns and Hurricane taxis and takes off from an airfield in Tunisia, North Africa.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. Two fliers on wing of a British Royal Air Force fighter aircraft Hawker Hurricane as they load ammunition belts into guns. A group of fliers seated in front of the British Headquarters building. A flier comes out of doorway. Fires gun in air. The group runs. A damaged hangar in the background. A wrecked German airplane at an airfield. Hurricane in the background with a spinning propeller. Hurricane with propeller spinning. A pilot in a cockpit. A rear of Hurricane and pilot gets into a cockpit of the aircraft. The Hurricane taxis and takes off. A view of Hurricane at the airfield as propellers rotate. The lined up Hurricane with propeller spinning. A Hurricane with a spinning propeller taxis and takes off. Hurricanes taxi and take off from the airfield.
B-24 Liberator in flight as crew members move towards B-25 Mitchell at an airfield in Tunisia, North Africa.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. A Royal Air Force heavy bomber Consolidated B-24 Liberator in flight. Aerial view of Tunis city. Royal Air Force medium bomber B-25 Mitchell stationary at an airfield. Crew members move towards the bomber.
Aerial view of a harbor being bombed and damaged ship in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II.
Royal Air Force 33 Squadron in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. A British bomber aircraft in flight. Aerial view of the city. A harbor being bombed. Smoke rises due to explosion. Bomb explodes. Aerial view of the harbor and damaged ships. Aerial view of burning harbor and ships.
