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German prisoners taken to a compound in Bizerte and prisoners in vehicles during Tunisian Campaign in Tunisia.
German prisoners taken to Bizerte and vehicles loaded with prisoners during the Tunisian Campaign in World War 2. Faces of German prisoners many of them stand and seated. German prisoners along with their luggage move into the compound. Around 2000 Prisoners of War taken or voluntarily having turned themselves into Military Police (MP). Prisoners relax themselves and talk. After a break they march forward. Roads filled with vehicles loaded with German prisoners. Prisoners on car, jeeps and trucks. A U.S. vehicle reads 'Hell's-half Acre'. Vehicles loaded with German prisoners. U.S. officer keeps a watch on the prisoners. Officer drinks.
Allied Forces Build up in Algeria to prepare for Spring offensive against German forces in Tunisia during World War II
At start of film, Allied forces are digging in after retreating from counterattacks by German forces in Tunis, during World War 2.. Rains create mud everywhere. A Lockheed P-38 fighter plane parked in foreground. Ground crews use shovels to free nose wheel of a B-24 Liberator bomber with engines running. A truck tows a C-47 transport plane from mud. Army trucks travel over road inundated by running streams. Soldiers standing in a jeep submerged in water. M2 tanks stuck in mud. Airmen huddled around an outdoor fire. P-38 fighter aircraft parked in the background. Soldiers eating around an outdoor fire. Animated map shows Allied battle lines stabilized in Algerian mountains, while German forces occupy the plains in Tunisia. German artillery batteries firing. British troops sheltering in damaged building. Allied wounded being transported atop, as well as inside a field ambulance. Interior of a transport plane configured for evacuation of wounded on litters. U.S. airmen including a woman in leather flying jacket tend to the wounded. Wounded being transferred from an airplane to an ambulance. British patrols moving through the night. Heavy artillery firing. British soldiers silhouetted at dawn. They return carrying a wounded comrade on a litter. The British soldiers ("Tommies.") trying to clean mud from themselves and their weapons before heading out on patrols again at dusk. Allied soldiers moving on mules in a long line to obtain needed food and supplies. More views of the interminable mud. A British Hawker Hunter fighter plane taking off. A formation of Hawker Hurricanes peeling off to engage German aircraft. Closeup of one rolling over. A German Heinkel 111 bomber being attacked and trailing smoke. Pilot pressing gun firing button in cockpit and a German Dornier Do 17 bomber hit as British fighter plane passes it in cloud of black smoke. The German plane diving to crash in a fireball on the ground. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers taking off and flying in formation. Formation of American B-17 bombers in flight. The American planes dropping bombs on Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. Gunners in the bombers firing machine guns at attacking German fighter planes as their bombs keep dropping. Back on land in Algeria, mud still halted any Allied advance. Animated map showing both Allied and German forces building up on their respective sides of the front. Supply lines illustrated all the way back to factories in the United States and Britain. Allied war plants making bombers and munitions. Allied Soldiers assembling Army vehicles at a port. Lockheed lightning fighters being rolled out of a factory. Sign reading "Railroad Equipment Assembly Plant No. 1." Complete trains from locomotives to freight cars being completely assembled, loaded with freight and sent on their way. A formation of P-38 aircraft equipped with long range fuel tanks being ferried in flight from Brazil. It is led by a B-17 flying fortress bomber providing navigation. British Spitfire and Hawker Hunter airplanes heading to the front an airfield in Gibralter. A caterpillar tractor moving earth for a new road at the front. Trucks dropping materials for the road bed as soldiers with shovels smooth them on the surface. Soldiers installing Mardsen Matting pierced steel planking for an airfield surface as C-47 transport planes operate on the field. Crates of food supplies being unloaded at a port. War materiel stored in a large yard at a port.
Activity in Port of Tunis, Tunisia, after it falls to Allies in World War II
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.
Activities at Port of Tunis,Tunisia, as Allies occupy it after capture in World War II
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. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
French crew demonstrates operation of ship's twin guns in Tunisia after Allied occupation in World War II
French gun crews in steel battle helmets scramble aboard their warship docked in the Port of Tunis, Tunisia, after the fall of Tunisia to the Allies, during World War II. Scene shifts to twin guns being raised and lowered in tandem from turrets on the ship's deck. Crew members obtaining shells from ship's armory and loading them into the twin guns. The left gun fires. Crew bring more shells to the gun turrets.
Italian submarine enters harbor at Tunis, Tunisia, and docks.
Setting is Port of Tunis, Tunisia, following Occupation by Allies in 1943. The entire film depicts an Italian submarine transiting the harbor and eventually berthing at a dock.
