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General De Gaulle and General Giraud meet at Algeria airport and review French troops in North Africa.

General De Gaulle and General Giraud meet at Algeria airport in North Africa. They review the French troops. The troops are equipped with modern weapons. Car parked in the background. General Giraud decorates General Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander. Soldiers march. Trees in the background. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028521
Allied Army trucks and equipment are unloaded from a ship in Algiers, North Africa during World War II.

A truck is unloaded from a ship in Algiers, Algeria, North Africa. Men remove hoisting chains from around the tires of the truck. Trucks move past on a road in front of a building with company name: "Compagnie Generale Transatlantique" on its front and a sign : ' Telegraphs, Telephones' on the side of the building. Trucks parked in front of the building. Trucks and equipment are unloaded from the ship. Men stand near the equipment.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044803
Civilians aboard MS Saturnia and MS Vulcania as they return from East Africa to Italy during World War II.

Civilians return to Italy during World War II. Italian hospital ship Saturnia (later the U.S. Army Hospital Ship Frances Y. Slanger) underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Women and others on the deck of a ship. Civilians disembark from the Saturnia and the Vulcania as they return from East Africa. Women and children on the deck of a ship.

Date: 1943
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675066918
Major General Doolittle at ceremony presenting P-40 Warhawks from the U.S. to the Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco in World War 2

Major General James Doolittle and Lt. General Carl Spaatz of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as French Major-General Bergeret and other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by the U.S. Army Air Forces to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade before a hangar. Officers stand in front of P-40 planes lined up near the hangar. The band plays in the parade. French Moroccan horsemen. Officers salute the American and French flags. Opening cameraman slate indicates January 9, 1942, but this is an error as the event took place on January 9, 1943.

Date: 1943, January 9
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020492
Italian submarine enters harbor at Tunis, Tunisia, and docks.

Setting is Port of Tunis, Tunisia, following Occupation by Allies in 1943. The entire film depicts an Italian submarine transiting the harbor and eventually berthing at a dock.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029013
Views of Tunis harbor filmed from a ship whose crew also demonstrates firing of ship's guns.

Montage of brief scenes in World War 2, around Port of Tunis, Tunisia, following Occupation by Allies in 1943. The first is view from a ship rising and falling with waves or swells in water, with sun setting in background. Next a high speed boat (perhaps a PT boat) is seen churning up large white wake as it speeds about in waters near Tunis. Closeup of a sailor (aboard the camera boat) manning a deck gun. He maneuvers the gun in various elevations and directions and then fires a round from it. Another crew member fires a tripod mounted Browning M 1919 air cooled 30 caliber machine gun. A third sailor fires a twin 20mm antiaircraft gun from a station atop the ship. A soldier fires his rifle from the ship's deck at sunset. Camera pans across widely spaced group of warships in the distance, and continues panning to show city of Tunis on the horizon. Now in Tunis harbor, the camera ship moves past a sunken ship with masts and funnel showing above water surface. Anchored transport ships silhouetted against light sky in the harbor. Stern view of a landing craft infantry. Huge explosion occurs in the water. An American soldier is seen on a sandy hill plunging the handle on a detonator. Views of waters turning rough in the area. Change of scene and time (water is extremely calm). A beached ship is seen in the harbor and several boats.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029014