The end of the Battle of Tunisia in North Africa during World War II. German and Italian soldiers surrender. German and Italian prisoners are massed. The prisoners advance with their luggage. German troops advance in their own trucks. The troops carry their food and walk. German officers and prisoners seated in a field. Surrendered German prisoners. Vehicles in the background. The commander of the Axis forces in Africa gets off from an aircraft. He shakes hand with German officials and speaks to them. A soldier puts a lock on a door. Marshal of Italy Giovanni Messe stands beside a car. Messe walks with other officials.
Two British soldiers help and assist another wounded soldier to walk away from a burning vehicle in North Africa. Vehicle seen burning in the background. Soldiers helping other wounded soldiers. Another tank seen burning at night. (World War II period).
German warplanes flying overhead. German planes and battleships bombard an American led Allied supply convoy in the Mediterranean Sea off North Africa. Bombs burst close to ships. An Italian torpedo boat launches a torpedo that strikes and sinks an American vessel. Italian crew members seen on their torpedo boat. German Dornier bombers in formation flight.
U.S. Marine transports at sea in North Africa. Antiaircraft guns test firing. Tracers in the sky. Antiaircraft gun firing. Loaded troop transport underway. Transport moving in sea. Convoy in transports. Three transports steaming abreast. (World War II period).
Group of U.S. Marine officers discussing a map aboard aboard a transport ship en route to North Africa. Identified officers are Captain E Sadler, Lieutenant Colonel Clark and Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Meyers. Several other field grade officers and a full Colonel are in the group. They move to a more convenient location where they can lay the map out, on a lower deck.
Officers meet in North Africa during World War II. Interior of an office. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Jacob L Devers and British Army General Henry Maitland Wilson standing behind a desk. They discuss. Both of them seated at the desk. They look at a theater of operations map.