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U.S. Army Air Forces P-38s take off from air base in Algeria during World War II
A dozen U.S. Army Air Forces P-38 lightning aircraft, of the 14th Fighter Group, departing from Telergma airfield in Algeria, during World War 2. They make formation takeoffs in flights of four. Views of them in formations overhead. (Their mission is in support of the Allied Italian campaign.)
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.
French and Tunisian troops clash over Bizerte Naval base in Tunisia.
Aerial view of fleet of ships and port in Bizerte Naval base. Military jeep on road. Soldier stands at a gate.People in barrack hold rifles in hands. A procession by Tunis people. They show banners.
Aftermath of conflict when Tunisian forces blockaded and fired upon French troops at the Bizerte Naval Base.
Broad from high point overlooking Bizerte Naval Base and inlet canal. View from above of destroyed building and railroad tracks. Close-up of a destroyed building with concrete rubble scattered everywhere. A French mobile field gun tilted to its side with one wheel on the ground next to it. Two helicopters are parked in the background. Damage in downtown commercial district. A building riddled with bullet holes. Damaged steel store front covers. Armed French troops patrolling the streets. Several are seen climbing on the roof of a building. A French soldier standing near an M24 Chaffee light tank in a small park traffic circle. Tunisian men carry what appears to be a large bier containing a victim of the conflict. French troops, vehicles and equipment gathered on part of the Bizerte Base. French soldiers and local people gather around a man dispensing water to them from a huge tank on a truck. One man fills a large pail with water and carries it toward a gated building. .
Bizerte refugees in Tunis.
Soldiers sit in front of a house during French Tunisian tension in Tunis, Tunisia. A damaged house. Signboard indicate way to Tunis and Bizerte, a man stand, and two soldiers lying on ground in attacking position with gun. A soldier see with binoculars. Soldiers with a civilian in front of sacks filled with sand. A man with a gun and a hand grenade. Soldiers sit on sacks. Large crowd of women watch breads in a truck and a man distributes these in people. Boys go with vegetables in a bucket.
Major General Doolittle at ceremony presenting P-40 Warhawks from the U.S. to the Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco in World War 2
Major General James Doolittle and Lt. General Carl Spaatz of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as French Major-General Bergeret and other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by the U.S. Army Air Forces to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade before a hangar. Officers stand in front of P-40 planes lined up near the hangar. The band plays in the parade. French Moroccan horsemen. Officers salute the American and French flags. Opening cameraman slate indicates January 9, 1942, but this is an error as the event took place on January 9, 1943.
