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Allied troops take over Algiers in Algeria, North Africa during Operation Torch, in World War 2.
World War II Allied naval convoy underway in harbor under protection of barrage balloons in Algeria, North Africa. Allied troops disembark a troop's transport ship at a dock. Troops and equipment are unloaded at the dock and British and American forces take over Algeria with little resistance. Allied bombers take off from an airfield. Bombs seen detaching from open bomb bay doors of Allied aircraft in flight, and bombs away view as bombs are dropped from a high Altitude. B-25 aircraft in formation bomb Nazi German General Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. British artillery guns fired and Eighth Army moves forward pursuing German enemy. Heavy smoke rises from shell hits. British infantry leave trench protection and run forward on battlefield to engage German enemy. Dramatic scene as large explosion causes the British soldiers to drop to the ground while advancing. British tanks and infantrymen advance past wreckage and burning German aircraft and armor. British General Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery seen with his advancing forces. Italian Army prisoners surrender under British protection. In city of Algiers, captured German officers and members of German Armistice Commission taken away by U.S. soldiers and Italian and German visitors and members of Axis Spain Fifth Column are rounded up in the city for internment. U.S. troops march on city streets. French and Algerian natives cheer for the United States and British allied troops that have taken over. United States troops decorated by General Mark Clark. Scene changes to aerial view of Italy. Cloud cover over the city. Bombs dropped over Italian targets by British and American bomber aircraft. View of explosions on ground and smoke.
Preparations by Allies for Allied offensive in North Africa during World War II. Allied leaders confer in planning.
Allied offensive in North Africa during World War II. Railroad train passes on a bridge in the United States filled with tanks and equipment bound for eastern ports. British rail carry heavy equipment and British Tanks to ports. Large number of transport trucks line up at a dock area. An Allied troop transport ship arrives at the dock. Allied troops boarding troop carrier ships in United States and England. British tanks loaded to ships. Troops disembark a train and troops embark a ship. Troops wave as the ship leaves the dock. Allied transport ships, battleships, cruisers and destroyers underway in Atlantic toward Gibraltar rendevous in 1942. Montage shows U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in conversation in late December 1941, Views of General George Marshall, General Dwight D Eisenhower in the United States following their appointments to lead the effort from the American side. General Mark Clarke in England shaking hands with Eisenhower. Neville Chamberlain also seen. A convoy of Allied ships. Allied troops aboard ships headed to Gibraltar. Two United States soldiers sew American flag patches on uniforms. Troops play games on ship deck. Battle inspection of troops and arms on the deck by their officers.
Axis forces withdrawing in El Alamein and British troops advance through Libya and Syria in World War 2.
Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942. Tanks advance and Axis powers in full retreat. British advance with tanks. British flag is raised. British advance on road and on mountain terrains. Water and other supplies brought by Navy. British troops advance through Matruh and Sidi Banari in Egypt; Tobruk and Bengasi in Libya; and Homs in Syria. Harbors littered by wrecked and abandoned German equipment. Fuel barrels unloaded from ship. British soldiers in combat with enemy in outskirts of Tripoli. Wounded soldier taken on litter. Artillery is fired. Smoke arises from explosions.
Italian and German forces engage British in North African campaign during World war II
Film opens showing Italian soldiers in North Africa using a sound detection device to locate incoming aircraft during World War 2. They detect a British bomber and ready their anti aircraft gun (90mm Cannone da 90/53). Shells being loaded in the tun and closeup of the principal gunner. British aircraft maneuvering in sky overhead. Two anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of one viewed from breech as it fires. Batteries of the anti aircraft guns firing. Closeup of Italian gunner reacting as a British plane is hit and falls trailing smoke. It crashes and explodes in the desert some distance away. Closeup of burning aircraft wreckage. Some German Messerschmitt bf 109 fighters taking off from a desert field. Airborne view of Messerschmitt Me bf 110 in flight (view from wingman's aircraft). Closeup of back seat machine gun barrel. View from aircraft strafing ground target on desert below. View from rear seat of the Me 110, where occupant is sending Morse code radio message. View of German radio station (sign reads: "Funkbetriebs Stelle!") Gernan army radio operator working at the station Wind blowing and sand drifting. German soldiers seeking protection from sand storm. Wind undoes tiedown of a tent which soldiers hasten to refasten. Two soldiers raise canvas that covered them during storm and stand upright.
Spanish military and naval activities in North Africa during World War II.
German newsreel in World War 2 shows Spanish sailors in boats possibly in North Africa. A sailor talks over telephone. Sailors fire from gun mounted on the boat. Long muzzle of a gun seen. Spanish Soldiers jump from the boats and pull the boat to the beach. Soldiers march on rocky hills. Marching troop of soldiers led by the Spanish officer. Spanish officer salutes the troops.
British Army truck convoy retrieves a disabled tank while being shelled in North Africa in World War II
Truck convoy of British troops moving across desert in North Africa, during World War 2. Light observation planes fly low overhead. British troops load a disabled tank aboard a flat bed truck while shellsl burst all around them during the operation. Brief view of British paratroopers seated inside a transport aircraft. British troops refueling and rearming a tank. A large number of German and Italian prisoners of war are assembled under British guard, in the desert.
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