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U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bombers and P-38 fighter aircraft operating in Tunisia during World War II.

A USAAF B-26 bomber being armed during World War 2. A wheeled bomb dolly loaded with 500 pound bombs is parked next to a B-26 aircraft. Four armorers, using special handles, slide one of the bombs off the carrier and move it under the aircraft. Another crew also removes a bomb from the carrier. Next scene shows armorers inserting fuzes in several bombs on the ground under the aircraft bomb bay. View, through operations building window, of a P-38 fighter plane parked in the grass, and B-26 bombers taxiing past it in the background. A P-38 fighter aircraft viewed almost head-on as it comes in for a landing. A formation of B-26 bombers overhead.

Date: 1943, January 3
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034693
B-26 bomber lands, and crew seen examining hole in side of B-26 bomber aircraft from enemy attack.

B-26 aircraft landing in Tunisia. B-26 being refueled from 4 or 5 gallon gasoline cans. Airmen throw them to the ground as they empty them. American airman examining hole in bomber from attack. Tail of bomber riddled with machine gun holes. A USAAF P-38 fighter landing and a B-26 bomber landing. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, January 3
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034694
General Doolittle presenting citations to USAAF pilots and the Distinguished Flying Cross to a Colonel.

Major General James B Doolittle, commander, Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, presenting award citations to U.S. Army Air Forces fliers. He presents Distinguished Flying Cross to a Colonel, who wears Command Pilot wings. General Doolittle surrounded by fliers, points to Bizerte, on a map of Tunisia. Doolittle donning a flight jacket, as he stands beside an airplane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034695
U.S. Army Air Forces P-38s take off from air base in Algeria during World War II

A dozen U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 lightning aircraft, of the 14th Fighter Group, departing from Telergma airfield in Algeria, during World War 2. They make formation takeoffs in flights of four. Views of them in formations overhead. (Their mission is in support of the Allied Italian campaign.)

Date: 1943, June 21
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034872
P-38 aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Forces 14th Fighter Group fly various formations over Telergma airfield in Algeria, during World War II

Cameraman slate notes that subject matter deals with bombing missions over Sicily, Italy, during World War 2. View from ground as two flights of four P-38 aircraft, from the USAAF 14th Fighter Group, fly overhead in formation at their base, Telergma airfield in Algeria. Then more are seen flying in vertical stacked formation over the field. Two land side-by-side on dusty runway. A "V" formation of P-38s flies overhead. The formation comes in over the field and individual P-38s peel off and circle to land. P-38s buzz the field in pairs, and then in flights of four.

Date: 1943, June 21
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034876
Supplies transported for Italian Quartermaster Corps in Tunisia during World War II.

Axis troops during World War II. Italian troops in Tunisia during World War II. Men load supplies in a trailer for Italian Quartermaster Corps. Men on motorcycles ford a stream which runs over roadway. Men load supplies for Quartermaster Corps onto camels. Italian soldiers in a field fire rifles and machine guns. Smoke rises. Motorcycles approach a village. Gas tank in the foreground. German Pz.III Panzer tanks advance across a plain. Smoke on the horizon as American troops fire artillery. Burning U.S. Army tanks on a roadside. A group of British army soldier prisoners of war is shown. Several captured American Prisoners of War beside a captured tank.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675049661