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Winston Churchill, Jan Christiaan Smuts and Field Marshal Montgomery view Allied positions in France.
Allied troops in France during World War II. An Allied soldier watches through binoculars. Allied troops move into action. Troops walk in a trench. Army tanks in the background. A large crowd of French civilians gather as a French officer addresses them. French people show 'V' sign for victory. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of South Africa Jan Christiaan Smuts and Commander of Allied 21st Army Group British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery view Allied positions.
U.S. Army Service Forces transporting troops and supplies worldwide during World War II.
U.S. troops board a large troop transport ship via a gangplank. Troops on an intermediate deck of the ship. Some are sprawled out relaxing. View from above of more troops boarding a ship. Men and equipment on the pier below. American forces at various far flung places where the U.S. Army Services Forces facilitated their transport and logistic support. Fleeting glimpses of troops in: Ireland; Alaska; Trinidad; and South America. Troops jam the upper deck of a transport ship. Army Service Forces officers in a planning meeting. Naval officers on deck of a ship look through binoculars as U.S. Naval ships bombard the coast of Solomon Islands and landing craft carry marines in an amphibious assault. Next, a man is seen annotating a map of North Africa. Secret maps pertaining to Allied landings in Tunisia and Algeria. Animated map illustrates amphibious landings on North African coast, highlighting Casablanca, Oran, and Algeria. Landing craft carry troops and supplies that are piled up in the sand beach. Soldiers moving military supplies ashore, in fire brigade fashion. Soldiers working at desks in Offices of the Army Service Forces. Filing cabinet in background. Trucks on the move in remote locations. Supply ship being loaded at a terminal. Fuel drums and army vehicles a being loaded aboard ships. Officers seated at a conference table. Ordinary American enlisted soldiers in a griping session at an Army post in the United States. Camera pans over large formation of soldiers. Animated chart shows more than half of servicemen who are part of Army Service Forces (ASF), are unaware of that. Troops marching in review at a tropical location, where reviewing officers wear pith helmets. Chart illustrates lack of unit pride in ASF. Images of various ASF logos. Chart shows results of polling data from soldiers and service members. Signal Corps and Engineers elements of ASF have the greatest unit pride. But most think better of other branches of the Army. More troops marching, in steel helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets affixed. Troops marching overlaid by "50%" indicating that half don't believe their contributions to the war effort are significant. Troops lined up (for pay?). More charts expressing concern about low morale. A heavy gun firing. German paratroopers jumping from a formation of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft. Charts expressing prevailing U.S. troops view that Germany wouldn't be too hard to defeat. Chart showing lack of understanding about why the U.S. is fighting Germany. Image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill seated in front of their key military officers at Casablanca Conference in World War 2. Chart shows U.S. soldiers believe that the greatest war effort is expended by the U.S. followed by Russia, with China and Britain providing little. Chart illustrates that only half U.S. troops want to get overseas and fight. Chart shows U.S. War Department films can correct this problem.
French Foreign Legionnaires climb down landing nets from a transport into a Landing Craft during practice landings.
French Foreign Legionnaires during practice landings under U.S. Navy supervision in North Arfica. Soldiers climb down landing nets from a transport into a Landing Craft. U.S. Navy sailors and French soldiers in Landing Crafts. Soldiers seated in the crafts. The Landing Crafts head towards the beach. (World War II period).
Street scenes in Moroccan city. American flyers patronize street vendor and haggle with him.
Streets in an Moroccan city. Empty street and a road. Cloud formation in sky. Palm trees in city. Two Moroccan youths pose. A man leans against a wall and reads a newspaper. American soldiers in horse drawn carriage. Woman covered so not be seen, walks with young girls. Two children pose and two more try to get into the picture. Nomads camp at side of road. A Moroccan, in a Fez, selling his merchandise on street. U.S. Army Air Force officers haggle with him. (World War II period).
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef and French Officers review military parade. British and U.S. soldiers place wreath at tomb
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef, and French officers, arrive at a reviewing stand in open cars accompanied by honor guard of Spahi, light cavalry, on horseback. They step from the cars and greet French officers. They walk to stand to review parade. Tanks drive through streets. Spahis, Royal Marines, United States soldiers, Free French soldiers and sailors march past in parade. Soldiers stand at the Le Mausolée de Lyautey in Rabat, Morocco. Wreaths lay by a draped French tricolor flag containing symbols of various military units and dates. British and American soldiers place wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The British and American contingents salute, do about face, and march back from the memorial. (World War II period).