World War II Allied naval convoy underway in harbor under protection of barrage balloons in Algeria, North Africa. Allied troops disembark a troop's transport ship at a dock. Troops and equipment are unloaded at the dock and British and American forces take over Algeria with little resistance. Allied bombers take off from an airfield. Bombs seen detaching from open bomb bay doors of Allied aircraft in flight, and bombs away view as bombs are dropped from a high Altitude. B-25 aircraft in formation bomb Nazi German General Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya. British artillery guns fired and Eighth Army moves forward pursuing German enemy. Heavy smoke rises from shell hits. British infantry leave trench protection and run forward on battlefield to engage German enemy. Dramatic scene as large explosion causes the British soldiers to drop to the ground while advancing. British tanks and infantrymen advance past wreckage and burning German aircraft and armor. British General Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery seen with his advancing forces. Italian Army prisoners surrender under British protection. In city of Algiers, captured German officers and members of German Armistice Commission taken away by U.S. soldiers and Italian and German visitors and members of Axis Spain Fifth Column are rounded up in the city for internment. U.S. troops march on city streets. French and Algerian natives cheer for the United States and British allied troops that have taken over. United States troops decorated by General Mark Clark. Scene changes to aerial view of Italy. Cloud cover over the city. Bombs dropped over Italian targets by British and American bomber aircraft. View of explosions on ground and smoke.
Ships, steamers, submarines and other vessels underway at harbor, Le Havre in France. Ocean liner "Bretagne" approaches the ship docking area. Towing boats move beside the steamer. Former prisoners of the Devil's Island French prison disembark from the ocean liner. Workers inside a control room at a railway station. Former prisoners arrive at the station carrying their belongings. They board the train. People bid farewell as the train leaves the station.
Former prisoners of the French prison gathered at a dock area on Devil's Island in French Guiana. The prisoners carry their belongings. They board a boat and leave the island. Several ships and boats underway in the river.
Pan American Airways System seaplane lands on water in Devil's Island in French Guiana. The seaplane arrives at the peer. Men tie the plane at the peer. Officers disembark from the plane. A radio tower. Radio operator works at controls inside a radio station.
A horse carriage moves on a street in Devil's Island, French Guiana. A cyclist passes by. Exterior of a telegraph office. Women sort postal mail and letters. Men drink liquor at an open air restaurant or cafe bar. Men besides a shop's wall along the edge of a street. A small boy passes by on his bicycle.
Man with umbrella on a street in Devil's Island, French Guiana. Man wearing is followed by a stray dog. A tattooed man reads a book under a tree. Man sits beside the door of a house. Man drinks liquor. Few men eat at a restaurant. Men sleep. People buy and sell goods in a market. Vultures and dogs scavenge on a street.
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