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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
Naval officers meet aboard a ship at the Tunis Port during the North African Campaign.

The British Royal Navy flag flies aboard a combat ship at the Tunis Port during the North African Campaign. Soldiers load and fire heavy guns. A U.S. Naval officer watches a submarine enter the port. Port buildings in the background. Submarine approaches ship. Sailors stand on the submarine roof with British Royal Navy flag. A naval officer climbs aboard the ship and is greeted by the waiting officer. Sailors row a boat across the port. A gun on the ship deck. Two blimps in the sky over the port. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, November 8
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020438
Fire on a ship at sea off Tunis Port during the North African Campaign.

Fire on a ship at sea off the Tunis Port. Flames and smoke emerge from the ship. Reflection of the flames in the water. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, November 8
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020439
Combat ships and patrol boats at the Tunis Port during the North African Invasion.

Stationary U.S. Navy ships and vessels at the Tunis Port. U.S. Navy combat boat with a gun,ammunition belt and the American flag passes a combat ship. U.S. Navy craft approaches another boat while on patrol. A Navy personnel uses flag semaphore to signal another boat. Another personnel looks through binoculars as he talks to the pilot. Several U.S. Navy patrol crafts with the American flag. Several sailors and cadets stand on the deck of a combat ship with flags in the background. Two men on a combat boat stand behind a gun, one with headphones on. A combat boat approaches another boat. Several combat ships and patrol boats at sea.

Date: 1942, November 8
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020440
United States Navy sailors fill up water in barrels at the Tunis Port in North Africa.

Various U.S. Navy ships and vessels at the Tunis Port in North Africa. U.S. Navy sailors transfer water from one barrel to the other. Sailors stand beside ships and equipment as they shift barrels. Man uses a hose to fill water into a can. A fire extinguisher lying next to the can. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, November 8
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020441
Officer makes announcement over a loud speaker at the Tunis port during the North African Campaign.

U.S. Naval ships and boats at the Tunis Port during the North African Campaign. Patrol boats and combat ships in the water. An officer makes an announcement over the loudspeaker aboard a ship.

Date: 1942, November 8
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020442