U.S. Army Overseas Motion Picture Service in North Africa and Australia. A runway on Mitchel Field, New York. A stationary airplane. A vehicle loaded with cartons is stopped beside the airplane. Cartons of movie film are loaded on the airplane for U.S. Army Overseas Motion Picture Service in North Africa and Australia. A sergeant puts film cartons into the airplane. Lieutenant T. H. Tennant checks the shipment.
Various U.S. Navy ships and vessels at the Tunis Port in North Africa. U.S. Navy sailors on pier on shore 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).
Allied held POW camp in Tunisia during the North African campaign, around time of capture of Tunis and Axis surrender in North Africa in World War 2. German prisoners of war move about the compound filled with many small tents and tarps for shelter. German prisoners stand beside military trucks. A German soldier wearing a Afrika Korps M41 Cap smokes a cigarette. A group of German soldiers in a loose line in the background.
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).
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.
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.