Ships underway at sea bring supplies for British Eighth Army fighting against German forces in El Alamein in Egypt (World War 2). Map shows long sea and air routes to deliver supplies in Africa from U.S. and UK. African workers cut trees making it easier to handle supplies. Aircraft takes off from runway. Aircraft in flight. Formation of aircraft over jungle. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel looks through binocular. Burning German tanks near El Alamein. Soldiers of British Eighth Army scan enemy positions.
Supply and reinforcements arrive for British Eighth Army fighting against Germans in El Alamein, during World War 2. Troops from South Africa, India and Thailand disembark from ships in harbor. Tanks unloaded from ships. Sherman M4 tanks delivered from U.S. Military vehicles and train loaded with supplies heading for battle front guarded by planes overhead. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel with his men. Italian tanks unloaded from ship. Planes attack German ships underway at sea bringing supplies. Royal Navy men inside submarines target German ships.
German soldiers lounging on the deck of an ocean liner being used as a troop ship, bound for Tobruk, Libya, during World War II. Views of war materiel on board, including motor cycles. Aerial views of the Port at Tobruk, with troop and supply vessels moored. Italian troops disembarking from troop ship. Stacked arms and military gear of Italian and German troops. Truck convoys carrying troops,supplies and Italian tanks, on coastal road towards El Alamein, Egypt. Medium German Pz.IV tanks on that road. View from aircraft of the troops and supplies being moved. Aerial views of prepared defensive positions along the coastal corridor. British prisoners of war, behind barbed wire fence. Trucks and Italian light tanks of Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps moving on the road.
Preparation undertaken in factories of Britain for producing war material and weapons for British Infantry fighting against German forces in El Alamein, Egypt during World War II. Women and men war production workers busy in a factory. Workers at aircraft assembly lines operate various machines. Scene changes to the United States, where war production workers are seen assembling M4 Sherman tanks in a U.S. factory. Production of M4 tanks for Allies. Completed tanks at the end of an assembly line, and elevated wide views of factory floor producing tanks.
German Afrika Korps fly to Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. An outline of the African continent with word “AFRIKA”. German Afrika Korps soldiers rest outside tents in Southern Greece. They receive mails. A shirtless German soldier hammers a Quadriga cutout on top of an arch into place. Afrika Korps soldiers fall in line and receive food supplies. A German soldier fills his canteen from water fountain. Troops carry supplies and move. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft are parked on airfield. Afrika Korps soldiers load supplies into transport planes. Soldiers wearing life vests board the plane. Junkers Ju 52 transport plane takes off. German soldiers peer from the window onboard the aircraft. Soldiers cuddle a pet dog mascot they brought to the flight. Division title on uniform sleeve reads “AFRIKA KORPS”. Afrika Korps soldiers rest during the flight. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft landing in Libya. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft cockpit bears the Coat of Arms of Berlin. Pilot in the cockpit. German Afrika Korps in desert uniform climb out of the plane. Two aircraft flying over a makeshift arch. Sign on arch reads “15000 hinsatz”. Afrika Korps troops carry an engine. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Axis soldiers march to El Alamein, Egypt. An Italian Royal Air Force plane is parked behind. Fighter planes in the sky. A pilot jumps down from a German fighter plane. Axis pilots talking to one another. A pilot stencils a kill mark. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel confers with General Albert Kesselring. Italian Field Marshal Count Ugo Cavallero gets out of his car, meets Rommel and Kesselring. Italian General Ettore Bastico joins Cavallero, Rommel and Kesselring.
Map showing Egypt, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea in German during World War II. . German Afrika Korps troops mobilize to El Alamein, Egypt. Afrika Korps anti-aircraft gun vehicles and Kübelwagen move in the Sahara Desert. A German soldier uses binoculars to observe surroundings. Houses in Siwa Oasis, Egypt. Axis armored column entering Siwa. A Kübelwagen drives past palm trees. A German 8-Wheeled Heavy Armored Car Sd.Kfz.232 follows afterwards. A car that appears to have been heavily modified for desert travel is seen. Egyptian men raise their hands as they watch the arrival of the armored column. Afrika Korps soldiers build a desert trench with sandbags. They assemble and adjust a 37mm flak gun. A soldier sorts shells. German soldiers attend a feast given by the Egyptian sheik of Siwa. A servant scoops and serves soup in bowl. Egyptian locals and German soldiers dine together. A man pours coffee from a Dallah coffee pot. A German soldier and an Egyptian man (with bandaged hand) talk to one another during the feast. Egyptian man offers grapes to Axis soldiers. Soldier eating grapes. Man carries a large box of grapes. A man and two boys load boxes of produce at the back of a truck. Shadow of a German soldier taking off his clothes. German soldier taking off his shoes. Nude German soldiers dive and swim in the lake of the Oracle.