U.S. Army Air Forces occupy former German airfield at El Aouina, in Tunis, Tunisia. U.S. Officer holds slate as they photograph a wrecked German 6-engined Me 323 Gigant ("Giant") on the airfield.
Views of wrecked German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant airplane at El Aquina airfield in Tunis, Tunisia. An American airman climbs upon the framework of the huge airplane. The vertical stabilizer is partially intact and contains many bullet holes.
La Marsa airfield, Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa during World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Elliott, Roosevelt, Commander, Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing (a multi-national Allied Command) walks across ramp and places an aerial reconnaissance camera inside a British Bristol Beaufighter Photo Reconnaissance aircraft, of No. 540 Squadron RAF Detachment. He speaks with photo reconnaissance technicians carrying cameras to and from the airplane. He converses with two U.S. Army Air Forces field grade officers, as they look at a map spread out on the airplane wing.
Opening scene shows Port of Tunisia as viewed from a British warship in its harbor, during World War 2. Foreground shows QF 2-pounder 40-millimetre (1.6 in) British autocannon (commonly called "pom pom" and used as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy). An Italian submarine moves slowly through the harbor and docks. Sustained view of Italian sailor aboard a warship looking through binoculars. Italian Naval officer at the helm looking through binoculars. Closeup of another Italian naval officer with pipe in his mouth. Landing craft side by side at a stone pier. British soldiers disembarking from a ship onto a dock, with all their gear, and proceeding to the main pier. Change of scene shows a deep sea diver in suit and helmet being helped to descend into the water from a dock. As he sinks underwater, many bubbles rise from his air supply. Another view of a deep sea diver being prepared to descend. Men assist him with hoses and helmet.
At start of film a destroyer is seen in the distance racing through white capped sea, with heavy black smoke streaming from its single stack. View shifts to sailors aboard a ship operating motorized anchor cable winches. Troops equipped with back packs and bed rolls, step from a landing craft onto a shore of black material. extended views of a barrage balloon overhead in a clear blue sky. View from railed porch on a building of ships docked nearby below. View from water in harbor of barrage balloon flying above ships.
Wreckage of Italian aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunisia during World War II. View of wrecked Italian aircraft at an airfield. The wreckage of aircraft strewn on the airfield. Views of various insignias on parts of the Italian aircraft.