A map shows French Tunisia in North Africa. A ship at a Tunisian port. German and Italian soldiers transfer boxes from the ships to waiting trucks. Soldiers roll and align barrels. German soldiers load and fire an antiaircraft gun. A German fighter plane defends material stockpiled in North Africa. Smoke due to bombardment by the aircraft. A truck on the road. An enemy plane is downed and its pilot captured. The wounded pilot near the wrecked aircraft. (World War II period).
The final battle of Tunisia, North Africa during World War 2. An animated map shows Allied Forces moving on all sides pressing forward against German forces still remaining in Northern Tunisia. in World War 2. U.S. forces move 200 miles from the south to confront German forces in the north. Views of U.S. soldiers in trucks and M3 half-tracks, and towing heavy artillery with a tractor. Views of hills where Germans are positioned, west of Tunis and Bizerte. Allied guns firing. French forces sweeping for mines and digging some up with bayonets. French General Alphonse Juin confers with his staff as they review a large map laid out on a jeep. Brief view of French infantry in the field and gunners firing artillery. German tiger tanks moving to counter British attacks. German tanks and artillery firing barrages against the British. Camera pans over destroyed German armor. British 78th Division attacks Longstop Hill. A long line of British infantry moving single file up a hillside. British soldiers firing machine guns from protected positions and infantry moving uphill, carrying small arms and Bren guns. British troops scaling steep hills, using ropes, as shells burst close to them. One throws a hand grenade that explodes on the hilltop. After reaching the hilltop, the infantry scamper down the other side and continue moving forward, firing their weapons. Several dead German soldiers are seen as the British troops overrun the German positions. British engineers and pioneers working with caterpillar tractors and shovels to build roads. Later, trucks are seen using a new road. In the meantime U.S. troops are seen arriving to commence their assault on Hill 609. It begins with long range artillery firing from camouflaged positions and shells exploding all over on Hill 609. It continues into the night. View of soldiers in artillery headquarters, under a tent illuminated by lanterns. Long sequence of nighttime artillery fire. Medical Corps doctors treating wounded as the nighttime artillery barrages continue. U.S. infantry digging in after taking Hill 609. View of American soldiers walking up Hill 609. View of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery consulting with staff officers in the field. British 8th Army commander, Lieutenant General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, looking through binoculars as he stands with staff members at the front. Scene shifts to U.S. airmen arming machine guns on a parked P-38 fighter plane. Others roughly handling bombs to be placed into U.S. bombers. Bomber with nose art of devil riding a bomb and name "Hell a Poppin." Air crews arrive by jeeps at their B-25 Mitchell bombers and others arrive at their B-17 bombers. View of B-25 number 41-13202 named "Idaho Lassie" of the 321st BG, 445th BS, 12th Air Force. Engines running on bombers and on a British spitfire fighter plane. Formations of Allied aircraft, including B-24 liberator bombers, Martin B-26 Marauder bombers, British spitfire fighters, and B-17 Flying fortress bombers. British and American armor moving forward firing guns. French artillery firing and French infantry advancing. French machine gunners in white hats. U.S. B-24 Liberator aircraft dropping bombs. German fighter planes attacking allied bomber formations. Gunners in the bombers firing at them. Gun camera view of German fighter being shot down. More views of Allied aircraft bombing and strafing. Map shows American forces reaching Bizerte, the British capturing Tunis and German forces split and defeated.
Allied camp in Tunisia during the North African campaign. Soldiers move about the compound full of camouflage tents. Soldiers stand beside military trucks. A soldier smokes a cigarette as he stands with another soldier. A group of soldiers in the background. (World War II period).
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.
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.
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.
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