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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.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033509
German troops and equipment are transported and German bombers bomb a British supply dump in Africa during World War II.

The German Army attacks British positions in Africa during World War II. Japanese officers deplane at a German strip in Sicily, Italy. Officers greet each other. Troops and equipment loaded into German Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft. The transport aircraft fly troops reinforcements to Axis forces in North Africa. Troops in the aircraft. Aerial view of a field as the aircraft approach for landing. A soldier looks out of an aircraft. The aircraft stationed on the field. Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring inspects German air units. German bombers including Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers escorted by Italian fighters take off. The aircraft in flight. They bomb a British supply dump. Junkers Ju 87s dive and bomb the target at Tobruk.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675057946
German Luftwaffe shoot British RAF Hawker Hurricane aircraft over Malta during WW2

German Luftwaffe attack British Royal Air Force (RAF) Hawker Hurricane aircraft over Malta during World War 2. A German Luftwaffe pilot gets into the cockpit of a Messerschmitt Bf 109. Ground crew member helps pilot in putting on his helmet before flying. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 takes off from a German airfield in Sicily, Italy. A group of fighters take off, heading for Malta. Aerial views of the coast of Malta. Gun camera footage from Luftwaffe aircraft shows Bf 109 shooting down British Hawker Hurricane aircraft. British aircraft on fire and crashing into ocean.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079113
Aircraft bombard the coast of Sicily, Italy as support boats head for a beach during World War II.

Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Smoke rises from the coast of Sicily just before the invasion by American troops. Explosions occur on a beach as aircraft drop 500 and 1000 pound bombs. U.S. support boats with beach barrage rockets head towards the coast of Sicily. Troops aboard the support boats as they head for the coast. Mountains in the background.

Date: 1947, July 18
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066943
United States Army Air Force 86th Fighter Bomber Group A-36 Invaders over Sicily, Italy during World War II.

USAAF (United States Army Air Force) 86th Fighter Bomber Group airplanes bomb Sicily, Italy during World War II. Formations of USAAF A-36 Invader dive bombers over Sicily. Aerial views of Sicily.

Date: 1943, July
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061145
U.S. Army Air Forces 86th Fighter Bomber Group A-36 Invader dive bomber airplanes over Sicily, Italy during World War II.

USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) 86th Fighter Bomber Group A-36 Invaders in Sicily, Italy during World War II. A-36 Invader dive bomber aircraft in flight over Sicily. Aerial view of Sicily. The A-36 taxi along an airfield.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061162