On shore at Tunis harbor, a British Navy officer gives a sword salute to a senior Naval officer in World War II. U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy sailors lined up on either side of dock for a salute. General Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied by Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and other British and American Navy officers walk past the sailors in review. Cunningham has a walking cane hooked over his left forearm but does not use it. The Union Jack and the British Royal Navy flag are visible. Ship at dock in the background. Eisenhower and Cunningham and the other officers pause and greet in front of a waiting Royal Navy car, RN ME 4096, parked on shore. Eisenhower, Cunningham, and another British officer enter the waiting car and it leaves, passing by a Allied landing ship with number 5 seen on its bow, anchored at the port. Closeup view of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly and another U.S. Navy officer watching after the car drives away. Honor guard sailors march with rifles, departing the dock after the officers leave. (Eisehhower visited Tunis for meetings with British and U.S. Navy officers May 11-13, 1943. This footage is likely during those 3 days.)
Camera view looking directly overhead as aircraft fly over a Allied ship moored at the Tunis Port during the North Africa Campaign of World War 2. View of the ship gun. Scene changes to point of view shot looking out the rear of fast moving Allied Patrol boat, with other Patrol boats following behind at high speed.
Allied French soldiers run out of camouflaged bunkers and buildings at the Tunis Port, apparently in response to an air raid warning. French soldiers prepare for defensive action. French soldiers adjust the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun. View of other anti aircraft guns on the shore. Soldiers load shells into anti-aircraft guns. Soldiers approach another anti-aircraft gun, adjust the gun's barrel and prepare to fire. (World War II period).
U.S. soldier stands before an anti-aircraft gun and signals with semaphore flags at the Tunis Port in North Africa. An island off shore. Lighthouse seen from a ship. Sailor on small moving boat or ship surveys shoreline with binoculars. Wrecked ship in the harbor. (World War II period).
Allied held POW camp in Tunisia during the North African campaign, around time of capture of Tunis and Axis surrender in North Africa in World War 2. German prisoners of war move about the compound filled with many small tents and tarps for shelter. German prisoners stand beside military trucks. A German soldier wearing a Afrika Korps M41 Cap smokes a cigarette. A group of German soldiers in a loose line in the background.
Scuttled ships at the Tunis Port in Tunisia during World War 2. Charred deck of a bombed ship. Ruins of charred buildings and factories at the port. Hull of a sunken ship. Naval officers in a speed boat. Sailor walks past the rubble of damaged factory. Sign of the Tunis Port Depot. Wrecked ships and cranes in the background. U.S. Navy sailor stands before an iron gate.
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