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Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef and French Officers review military parade. British and U.S. soldiers place wreath at tomb
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef, and French officers, arrive at a reviewing stand in open cars accompanied by honor guard of Spahi, light cavalry,on horseback. They step from the cars and greet French officers. They walk to stand to review parade. Tanks drive through streets. Spahis,Royal Marines,United States soldiers,Free French soldiers and sailors march past in parade. Soldiers stand at a small memorial, where wreaths lay by a draped French tricolor flag containing symbols of various military units and dates. British and American soldiers place wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown. The British and American contingents salute, do about face, and march back from the memorial.. (World War II period).
French, British and American sailors assemble in formations in Morocco, during World War II
Allied sailors, French, British and American, march in formation and assemble at attention in Morocco, during World War 2. A group of French sailors shouldering arms, marches along a waterfront path and stands at attention in a paved area. They are joined by a group of British sailors, also shouldering arms. A U.S. contingent of sailors marches to a nearby location. The entire activity is at a waterfront area in Morocco. Brief glimpse of a destroyer off the coast.
British 8th Army and American forces enter Tripoli in Libya during World War II.
Allied armies advance in Tunisia during World War II. American and British outposts in Tunisia. Nazi and Allied aircraft engaged in a dog fight while in flight. A German aircraft is shot down and it falls. A German aircraft burns on a field. American soldiers fire along the Atlas Mountains. British and American tank destroyers in action as explosions occur. German prisoners march. British 8th Army enters Tripoli in Libya. General Bernard Montgomery of England talks to an Italian Governor and officers about the Axis surrender. British flags hoisted in the city. Montgomery rides past a cheering crowd in a car. Tanks roll on streets.
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.
