Camera view looking directly overhead as aircraft fly over a Allied ship moored at the Tunis Port during the North Africa Campaign of World War 2. View of the ship gun. Scene changes to point of view shot looking out the rear of fast moving Allied Patrol boat, with other Patrol boats following behind at high speed.
U.S. soldier stands before an anti-aircraft gun and signals with semaphore flags at the Tunis Port in North Africa. An island off shore. Lighthouse seen from a ship. Sailor on small moving boat or ship surveys shoreline with binoculars. Wrecked ship in the harbor. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers march towards Allied positions in North Africa during World War II. Wreckage and bombed buildings in Sbeitla, Tunisia. British soldiers escort German and Italian prisoners towards Allied prison camps in Constantine, Algeria. Dusty boots of the prisoners.
Allied Forces fight the Axis Powers during World War II. Aerial view of the city of Tunis. British Forces enter the city. Trenches in the city. Dead soldier on the street. Allied soldiers patrol in the streets and skirmish with German snipers. German soldiers surrender. Allied soldiers fire at a building. French Troops lead long lines of captured German prisoners of war. Italian Field Marshal Giovanni Messe is captured. German Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Commander of all Axis Forces in Africa, is captured and flown from Gibralter to England. Commander von Arnim is seen being driven into a prison camp and emerges from his car within the Prison Camp. British troops of the 1st and 8th Armies are warmly greeted by the citizens of Tunis. Allied military vehicles pass on the streets of Tunis amidst throngs of cheering civilians. French General Henri Giraud reviews the French troops as they parade.
British Forces entrap Axis Forces in Africa. British warships patrol. German troops attempt to escape in small boats. The British Navy captures the fleeing Germans. A small boat near a shore. A dead soldier lay nearby. British General Eisenhower and French General Giraud review a gigantic French American military parade in Tunis. Allied planes fly overhead. American and French flags. Two girls wave to the marching armies. General Eisenhower and General Giraud salute to the armies. (World War II period).
Film begins showing the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, North Africa. Inside, Allied generals meet to plan further steps in World War 2, against the Axis powers. Charles de Gaulle and French General Henri Giraud are seen walking together at an airport. Closeup of the two. View of Allied General staff members around a table. U.S. principals include Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall and Air Force Chief, Lieutenant General Henry H. Arnold. Views of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied forces, His deputy for land forces, British Field Marshal Harold Alexander, his deputy for sea forces, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, and his deputy for air operations, British air marshal, Arthur William Tedder (1st Baron Tedder) Outdoors. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill are seen seated, conversing. Churchill's airplane, named Commando, a very long range Consolidated Liberator II aircraft adapted for passenger transport is seen ready to take him to Tripoli to greet the victorious British 8th Army. Churchill greeting British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Tripoli. Animated map shows battle lines and disposition of Allied forces along the Algiers-Tunisian front. View of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting defenses at the Mareth line in Tunisia. Fifteen divisions of German, and 7 divisions of Italian troops entering the front lines. German Panzer IV aus d tanks moving on a dirt road. German infantry marching along a road. Seasoned German troops in camouflaged vehicles. Formation of German Focke Wulf 189 aircraft and view of one dropping bombs. General Rommel pointing to something at the front. Animated map showing the battlefront. (Narrator says German orders were to hold Tunisia at all costs.) View of Rommel, eating a sandwich as he studies document in a defensive position behind the Mareth line. German soldier using periscopic binoculars to view the front. German forces initiating an attack westward driving Allied forces back. Map show German forces advancing beyond the Kasserine pass. Rommel in a staff car, as he learns that the Allied forces have counter-attacked and are driving his forces back to the original battle lines. American infantry marching Eastward to reoccupy Kasserine Pass and beyond, past destroyed German tanks. Rommel's forces make an attack Southward toward the British 8th Army positions. View of new Tiger tank employed by the Germans. A British soldier removes the cover from their new 17 pounder anti-tank gun. View of burning Tiger tanks destroyed by the new British guns. (Narrator says 52 were left burning hulks.)