Events related to the Casablanca Conference. U.S. Rangers lined at attention. Lord Mountbatten and General George S Patton Junior. American Ranger salutes. Elliot Roosevelt in uniform speaks to a U.S. officer. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in jeep speaks with General Patton and smiles.
Events related to the Casablanca Conference. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill exits from a building. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Admiral Cunningham and Sir Alan-Brooke stand nearby. A group of British officers stand behind Prime Minister Churchill.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is being assisted on the seat of a jeep,by a group of men in pith helmets, on a beach. They climb on the jeep with the President. Next, the President and his associates drive slowly in the jeep, reviewing a large formation of U.S. soldiers assembled on the sand. Change of scene shows the President seated in a chair during a break in the Casablanca Conference. Behind him is General George Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Brigadier General William H. Wilbur, and Major General George Patton. The President reads a citation for the award of the Medal of Honor for General Wilbur. General Patton then steps forward and places the Medal of Honor around General Wilbur's neck, as the President adjusts it in the front. General Wilbur wearing the Medal of Honor as he stands with some other officers. View from a jeep driving along a dirt road, past some abandoned airplanes at an inactive air field. Scene shifts to Natal, Brazil, where President Roosevelt is seen seated aboard the USS Humboldt in the Potenji River harbor in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, where he visits President of Brazil, GetĂșlio Vargas, on his way home from the Casablanca Conference. Seated on the ship's deck are: Presidential assistant,Harry Hopkins, President of Brazil Getulio Vargas,holding a cane, President Roosevelt, and United States ambassador Jefferson Caffery seated in chairs as Brazilian Navy and Army officers stand behind them. Later, President Roosevelt is seen, wearing a black armband, in a jeep. Brazilian Navy and Army officers stand around the vehicle. The Chief of the Brazilian Army talks at length with the President. Other officers in the vehicle. They finally proceed followed by armed guards on vehicle behind them. (World War II period)
Operation Torch (invasion of North Africa) during World War 2. View from stern of a British warship underway with setting sun behind. Several British sailors help a shipmate untangle himself from lines on the deck of ship. British, Free French, and American sailors line up for inspection on shore. A British launch, flying a white ensign, approaches and docks at Casablanca. The Allied Commanders of Operation Torch disembark. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (wearing 4 stars) is followed by British Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force (carrying a cane on his arm), and his deputy, Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who planned the ground effort. Eisenhower pauses to greet American Naval officers (and he stumbles on pier planking). Eisenhower, Cunningham, and Ramsay, then enter a staff car and drive away.