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Remains of a German Messerchmitt 323 D-1 transport aircraft at El Aouina airfield in Tunis.

Wrecked German 6-engined Messerchmitt 323 D-1 (possibly RD+QG) at El Aouina airfield in Tunis. Two engines and props remaining on one wing and one remaining on the other. Wrecked fuselage of the airplane. Portion of landing gear laying on the ground. Damaged wheels of the airplane. A U..S. airmen sits in the wreckage framework and appears to be cutting something from it.

Date: 1943, May 29
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020479
The British Navy captures fleeing German troops and General Eisenhower and General Giraud review a military parade in Tunis.

British Forces entrap Axis Forces in Africa. British warships patrol. German troops attempt to escape in small boats. The British Navy captures the fleeing Germans. A small boat near a shore. A dead soldier lay nearby. British General Eisenhower and French General Giraud review a gigantic French American military parade in Tunis. Allied planes fly overhead. American and French flags. Two girls wave to the marching armies. General Eisenhower and General Giraud salute to the armies. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033503
The U.S. 2nd Army and the British 8th Army capture the city of Bizerte and the German troops surrender during the World War II.

The Axis troops are crushed by the Allied Forces in North Africa during World War II. The U.S. 2nd Army moves towards Bizerte. U.S. tanks and infantry on the roads. Wrecked German Pz.4 from the battle of Hunt's Gap. U.S. General Eisenhower, Allied Commander in Chief, inspects the abandoned German weapons and the booby traps. The British 8th Army moves towards Tunis. The Allied troops move into a town. The locals cheer and destroy all the signs of Axis occupation. British General Bernard Montgomery standing in an open car. Citizens welcome the Allied troops. German plane drops a bomb. Another is shot down. Allied artillery destroys German naval base, across Lake Bizerte. The Allied soldiers move to the outskirts of Bizerte. The Allied tanks move in the streets. Allied troops search the streets. German troops come in trucks and surrender. An Allied soldier writes down the names of the surrendering German generals. Large numbers of German prisoners led away. The Allied Forces move into city of Bizerte. The citizens welcome the Allied troops. US, British and French flags fly.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033554
Italian air forces join Allies in Cape Bon, Italy, bringing their own ground crew, doctors and pilots

Italian air force joins allies at North Korba Airdrome in Cape Bon, Italy. 31 Italian planes bring their own ground crews and doctors. Italian planes in flight. Planes take off from airfield. An officer salutes as he disembarks. Ground crew disembark from the Italian planes. Ground crew and doctors talk to Captain Francesco Aurelio Di Bella. Captain Di Bella drinks water. Ground crew and doctors seated in truck and truck driven. They eat food. 2nd Lieutenant Fulvio Andrei, fighter pilot, interviewed. Captain Francesco Aurelio Di Bella, one of Italy's torpedo bomber aces, interviewed. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024675
Port of Tunis severely damaged during its fall to the Allies in World War II

Start of film shows views from an Allied ship close to Tunis, North Africa, as shells strike a fortress on a hill. Numerous explosions raise white smoke as the shells strike. Change of scene shows heavy black smoke rising from a fire at the port of Tunis after being attacked. Italian firemen direct water from hoses to extinguish it. Next, smoke rises from an area of destroyed facilities as firemen also spray water to fight it. View of stern of a grounded burning ship as firemen fight it with water from hoses. Heavy black smoke rising from a burning ship in the harbor. On shore, Italian soldiers carry a wounded victim on a litter over their shoulders. Occupying American soldiers are seen in the background. Another view of the burning grounded ship and firemen directing water on it from hoses. More views of fires raising heavy black smoke in the Port. A gun in a ship's turret firing at approximately a 30 degree elevation.

Date: 1943, May
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029008
U.S. Sailors unload heavy auxiliary generator from a landing ship tank (LST) at Port of Tunis during World War II

Glimpse of American sailors; derricks; and a landing ship tank ( LST) at the Port of Tunis in World War 2. Sign on building reads: "A.S.T.B. Tunis." A sailor seen in the cab of a derrick at the controls. Sailors guide a large auxiliary generator down the ramp of the LST. The sailor-operated derrick lowers a cable with hook that sailors fasten to the generator and the derrick begins to lift it.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029015